Desire Quotes
There is no greater offence than harbouring desires. There is no greater disaster than discontent. There is no greater misfortune than wanting more.
The True Person benefits yet expects no reward, does the work and moves on. There is no desire to be considered better than others.
The True Person governs by emptying the heart of desire and filling the belly with food, weakening ambitions and strengthening bones.
It’s hard to accept yourself as someone you don’t desire / As someone you don’t want to be.
Friends such as we desire are dreams and fables, yet we never quite give up the hope of finding them.
Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values.
...and the most intense desire gave force to her passionate words as the girl glanced despairingly about the dreary room like a caged creature on the point of breaking loose.
Fairyland is the loveliest word because it means everything the human heart desires.
We want to take action out of the desire to contribute to life rather than out of fear, guilt, shame, or obligation.
... peace is a militant thing ... any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war. No one can be a pacifist without being ready to fight for peace and die for peace.
Spirituality is rooted in desire. We long for something we can neither name nor describe, but which is no less real because of our inability to capture it with words.
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived.
Seek and Hide: the Lover gazes at the Beloved. The Beloved looks away. The Beloved turns and looks at the Lover. The Lover runs away.
I always had the desire to perform. If it wasn't my career now, I'd still be doing amateur dramatics. It's just something you love, and when you get paid to do it, you pinch yourself every day.
There are great disciplines from being a sportsman that you can transfer into being an artist. The preparation, the sacrifice, the constant desire to improve.
Those that abide in Christ as their heart's desire shall have, through Christ, their heart's desire.
I shall be supplied with whatever I need; and, if I have not everything I desire, I may conclude it is either not fit for me, or I shall have it in due time.
Caring is irrelevant. Desire to do good is irrelevant. All that counts is knowledge and results
I stand ready to lead us down a different path where we're lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentment of success.
PRACTICE THE Art of Peace sincerely, and evil thoughts and deeds will naturally disappear. The only desire that should remain is the thirst for more and more training in the Way.
It is only by frequent deaths of ourselves and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully.
Nothing was ever created by a human being that was not first created in the imagination through desire and then transformed into reality through concentration.
Our nation is filled with tremendous energy of the youth. Whatever future we desire of, we must keep the youth at the centre. If we do this, we can surge ahead at an unmatchable pace!
I have no desire to be dominated. Honestly I don't. And yet I find myself becoming angry when I'm not.
This is what you learned in college," the narrator tells you early on. "A man desires the satisfaction of his desire; a woman desires the condition of desiring.
I used to do horseback riding in the South, and it was just things I'd be pasting. I think my diaries was just an infantile desire to record things. I liked saving things instead of writing.
Pleasure once tasted satisfies less than the desire experienced for its torments.
Although the Buddhists will tell you that desire is the root of suffering, my personal experience leads me to point the finger at system administration.
Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying; but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself.
Work, especially good work, becomes easy only when desire has learnt to discipline itself.
Our ability to receive is a necessary component if we desire to own our power, claim our worth and live fearlessly.