Desire Quotes · Page 189

“All disease, disorder and addictions stem from the yearning to reunite with one’s soul.”

— Gerard Armond Powell

The courage to go deeper is found by letting your desire grow larger than your fear.

— Oriah Dreamer

Passion lies between one mark and the next, and also within all of them.

— Howard Hodgkin

The U.S. will ignore the opinion of the Iraqi people and it will compose the new government according to its own desires.

— Muqtada al Sadr

“If you have to look any further than your own backyard to find your heart’s desire, you never really lost it to…

— Anonymous

Anything the heart desires shall be obliged, for the heart is what keeps us alive.

— Anonymous

Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.

— Victor Hugo

“It happens that I want you, and so I just haven’t room for any other desires.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I have spent time discussing the American political system and current events in Taiwan with the junior diplomats, and they have repeatedly…

— Michael K. Simpson

But it was hard to keep his hands still. He could almost feel them twitching emphatically with his strong desire to reach…

— Richard Matheson

I get to meet fantastic people, and I get to go through so many emotions. For me, I have a craving for…

— Christopher Parker

I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a…

— Balthus

“When a person is engaged, dedication to their craft, desire to achieve, and relentless commitment to make a difference is palpable. You…

— Kevin E. Phillips

I feel... an ardent desire to see knowledge so disseminated through the mass of mankind that it may, at length, reach even…

— Thomas Jefferson

“As a man in the arms of his beloved is not aware of what is without and what is within, so a…

— Anonymous

It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If…

— Anne Bronte

One day I saw a picture of the Buddha on a Buddhist magazine and he was sitting on the grass, and he…

— Nhat Hanh

Women of the world today dress alike. They are like so many loaves of bread. To be beautiful one must be unhurried.…

— Luisa Casati

I want neither a terrorist spirituality that keeps me in a perpetual state of fright about being in right relationship with my…

— Brennan Manning

Jesus gives us the gift of the Holy Spirit, yet when the Spirit comes, He is loaded with packages! He desires to…

— Jack W. Hayford

“Wanting his mind on other matters, she deliiberately challenged his statement. "You don't know so much about me. There was a man…

— Christine Feehan

If you take the conflicts we are used to dealing with, race over the years in America, and you combine that with…

— Gwen Ifill

For the last month I have been a strict vegetarian. The moral effects of this regime are immense, owing to the voluntary…

— Gustav Mahler

What a country wants to make it richer is never consumption, but production. Where there is the latter, we may be sure…

— John Stuart Mill

There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition

— Blaise Pascal

When you find your heart's desire, you'll have the key to unlocking your potential in every other part of your life.

— Brian Tracy

“You may know where to touch her, but that doesn't mean you know how to touch her. Take time to learn what…

— Stephan Labossiere

There's only one pure desire and that is to be one with the Divine.

— Nirmala Srivastava

It's not a case of missing the past, it's the constant yearning for it, I need it back.

— Anonymous

I learned that you could beat the big guys with desire, passion, and hard work.

— Scott Borchetta

Love respects the other person so much that it voluntarily puts on hold the desire for sex...

— Ritu Ghatourey

It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval.

— Mark Twain

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

— Rebecca West

“My truest desire is fellowship with good friends, the love of a caring family, and a close relationship with God.”

— Wanda E. Brunstetter

We all feel the urge to conform; it is the most normal of human desires.

— Anne Applebaum

I love babies. I also have this very deep desire to become a mother. I always thought that motherhood was my highest…

— Zazie Beetz

Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom.

— Dalai Lama

“What every man should desire is an ugly woman with a beautiful heart, not a beautiful woman with an ugly heart.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I'm on a higher plane with brain with a flame, feel the fire, desire the same.

— Kool Moe Dee

Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec