All of us have a secret desire to be seen as saints, heroes, martyrs. We are afraid to be children, to be… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
Be eager in your desires but humbly patient in their accomplishment. — Mary MacKillop Copy Share Image
There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire. — John Churton Collins Copy Share Image
A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You get lost out of a desire to be lost. But in the place called lost strange things are found... — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Desires are seeds waiting for their season to sprout. From a single seed of desire, whole forests grow. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Olympia thinks often about desire - desire that stops the breath, that causes a preoccupied pause in the midst of uttering a… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
“This was what the poets couldn't put in their poetry, she thought dumbly, the rush of desire so fierce and pure it… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
For the Sensitive Plant has no bright flower; Radiance and odour are not its dower; It loves, even like Love, its deep… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
So what do you desire to do? What do you really want to do as a person? You need to stop and… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
When we become quiet and introduce our intentions into the field of pure potentiality, we harness the universe's infinite organizing power, which… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I think the cultural task is to separate our impulses and needs and desires from the supernatural and, above all, from the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There are men who do exist who have no desire for women. That doesn't necessarily mean they have an interest in men,… — Daayiee Abdullah Copy Share Image
My fear is that in our desire to remember George Floyd, the names of those who came before him will fade into… — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
“Desire made fools of us all, did it not? What was more controlling than unconsummated desire? What but wanting sent men on… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
“I want to love every piece of you. I want to be inside you. I want our bodies together, to make the… — Robyn Carr Copy Share Image
[Photography] ties back into this feeling of wanting to watch things fall and the moment before they break. Fireworks are that way… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
“Hélène Lagonelle’s body is heavy, innocent still, her skin’s as soft as that of certain fruits, you almost can’t grasp her, she’s… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
“The bedrock desire then, is a universal one: to be loved and happy. This may seem utterly obvious, but uncovering this universal… — William Ury Copy Share Image
“Bondage And Service - that was what they all demanded and from everyone. This craving to find themselves in another, to subjugate… — Hermann Bahr Copy Share Image
When a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then… — Plato Copy Share Image
The whole blame goes to the parents. They have lived as ambitious beings; they have destroyed themselves. Now they go on giving… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For the love that is purest and sweetest Has a kiss of desire on the lips. — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Through the intensive aspiration of the human soul arises in man the desire for independence. — Velupillai Prabhakaran Copy Share Image
An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization. — Man Ray Copy Share Image
The desire to order other people around and make them conform to one own's vision takes many forms. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Her desire for fame is like her hair. It keeps getting bigger. [on Diana Ross — Johnny Mathis Copy Share Image
I'm obviously not a politician, nor do I have the desire to be one, but I'm a conscious citizen. — Chauncey Billups Copy Share Image
We should awaken feelings of respect for each other. In other words, awaken the desire to kill selfishness. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I don't scoff at the desire to make good movies. I scoff at the quality at poseurs masquerading as masters of the… — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
Work helps to preserve us from three great evils -weariness, vice, and want. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You must give up your desire for someone to tell you your choices were correct in the end.” — F.C. Yee Copy Share Image
“He recognized that he was feeling something he head never experienced before: the desire to live in one place forever.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
This desire [to write] is rather strange all the same and is not without a certain "cracked" quality. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“A person's desires, the things a person found beautiful, were probably best kept to oneself.” — Victor Lodato Copy Share Image
“I wanted so badly to believe, but the fear felt as great and overwhelming as the desire.” — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
“I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams or desires” — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“Love is a feeling that is imposed on you. You cannot be lazy; it is up to you to make things work… — Kyra Gregory Copy Share Image