“hard-wired to seek love, joy, fulfillment—and health. Though we’ve too often been talked out of our desires as children,” — Christiane Northrup Copy Share Image
Perfection is a toxic desire. We are not supposed to be perfect. The challenge is not to be perfect, it's to be… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
Unto the man of yearning thought And aspiration, to do nought Is in itself almost an act. — Dante Gabriel Rossetti Copy Share Image
Singing is as much the language of holy joy as praying is of holy desire. — John Wesley Copy Share Image
“I like the sea: we understand one another. It is always yearning, sighing for something it cannot have; so am I.” — Greta Garbo Copy Share Image
To wait on God is to live a life of desire toward Him, delight in Him, dependence on Him, and devotedness to… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
She was trying to sound tough and impatient, but she knew that vulnerable desire to be wooed was still brimming in her… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
When you are not willing to fully receive, you are training the universe not to give to you! It's simple: if you… — T. Harv Eker Copy Share Image
My children have a world of opportunities that were not available to me. My kids have no idea about going without -… — Black Thought Copy Share Image
“what draws us to act is not the sensation we receive from the reward itself, but the need to alleviate the craving… — Nir Eyal Copy Share Image
In the press, there's this desire for the black audience to be this monolithic thing that always responds to the same stars.… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
Better to wait and yearn, and still to wait, And die at last with unappeased desire, Than live to be the jest… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
That's just the way I end up making meaning from the direct material in my life - I think what makes it… — Frances Stark Copy Share Image
How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Whatever the circumstances of your life, the understanding of type can make your perceptions clearer, your judgements sounder, and your life closer… — Isabel Briggs Myers Copy Share Image
Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains; and thou too art wont to desire such things very… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“The will has no overall purpose, aims at no highest good, and can never be satisfied. Although it is our essence, it… — Christopher Janaway Copy Share Image
As the beautiful does not exist for the artist and poet alone—though these can find in it more poignant depths of meaning… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
The delight we take in our senses is an implicit desire to know the ultimate reason for things, the highest cause. The… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
“Beyond imagination and insight, the most important component of talent is perseverance—the will to write and rewrite in pursuit of perfection. Therefore,… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
Dreams burst like bubbles in the wind. But change takes time.When people fall in love and lose the overwhelming desire for it… — Marianne Fredriksson Copy Share Image
No earthly pleasures, no kingdoms of this world can benefit me in any way. I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power… — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way. — Roman Polanski Copy Share Image
It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Man tends always to satisfy his needs and desires with the least possible exertion. — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
“Beso me without desire so I may hear her coo, that grew in you” — Sean Thomas Dougherty Copy Share Image
He never complicates a desire by overthinking it, unlike Mirabelle, who spins a cocoon around an idea until it is immobile. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again. — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
Did you know it's possible to have the right passion, but have the wrong expression of the right passion? — Steven Furtick Copy Share Image
First get a clear notion of what you desire to accomplish and then in all probability you will succeed in doing it. — Henry Maudslay Copy Share Image
“A dream is a higher desire for progress, transmitted to a human being as a duty.” — David Celestin Copy Share Image
Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
God's Word must be the guide of your desires and the ground of your expectations in prayer. — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
Most People have a desire to look for the exception instead of the desire to become exceptional. — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Desire can't be sated, because if it is, the longing disappears and then we've failed, because desire is the state we seek. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“She'd been in love with the man, and love is a scary thing. If not reciprocated, it can turn a person into… — Michele Young-Stone Copy Share Image
When God calls His child to live the life of a missionary, He gives him the desire with the calling. — David Sills Copy Share Image
