Desire Quotes · Page 102

Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Our soul can find in the Blessed Sacrament all the joys and consolations it desires.

— Teresa of Avila

Not one amongst the doctors, as you'll see For his own friends desires to prescribe.

— Philemon

TEACHER seeks pupil. Must have an earnest desire to save the world. Apply in person.

— Daniel Quinn

Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Remember that any desire is tested; the greater the desire, the greater the tests.”

— Bryant McGill

The desire to keep doing what we love supersedes the desire to penalize bad behavior.

— Nell Scovell

To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God's.

— Dallas Willard

Faith is not Desire. Faith is Will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied, whereas Will is a force. Will changes…

— Paulo Coelho

Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has…

— C. S. Lewis

Every human heart cries and yearns for the same thing: a chance to fulfill his or her own dreams and desires. Even…

— Myles Munroe

It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that…

— Theodore Dalrymple

Where there is no power, there is never any desire to do a thing; and where there is strong desire to do…

— Wallace D. Wattles

Meditation develops the capacity to question your mind. Without it, you are at the mercy of every thought, every desire, every wave…

— Geneen Roth

“​If You have Chosen a Destination, You Must Find a Path. if You have Chosen a Path, You Must Find the Destination.…

— Vineet Raj Kapoor

All of us who desire the kingdom of God are, by the Lord's decree, under an equal and rigorous necessity of seeking…

— Saint Basil

I have no desire to be president of the United States. Zero desire. I don't think that I would be electable. And…

— Glenn Beck

I wondered if I was just the sum of my brain scan, little dots clustered in my frontal lobe. Is that where…

— Betsy Lerner

“She hauls her desire from the anguish of thorns, whispering: sunlight abides in you. She is followed by the aroma of a…

— Fatena Al-Gharra

We want to feel hyper-alive, and it's like, the more cartoonish and grotesque the level we can operate at, the better. It's…

— Irvine Welsh

The individual feels the vanity of human desires and aims, and the nobility and marvelous order which are revealed in nature and…

— Albert Einstein

Writers are idolized not because they love their fellow men, which is never a recommendation and in extreme instances leads to crucifixion,…

— Hugh Kingsmill

Wake up and realize this is all made up of thoughts, just thoughts. Your appreciation of beauty is a thought; your aversion…

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

I do research. I do emotional sort of Method work. Somehow it’s a huge mishmash of things that becomes my own acting…

— Nicole Kidman

Each one should realize there is nothing in (us) which denies that which (we) desire.

— Ernest Holmes

If you are influenced by the opinions of others, you will have no DESIRE of your own.

— Napoleon Hill

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I have a deep desire to have success, to play a high level, and to win championships.

— Jason Witten

I have this dying desire to be on top. I'm paranoid about it. It's almost a sickness.

— Howie Long

...I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires....

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

You always have to measure your desires and goals against your ego and your humility.

— Sebastian Copeland

Inspiration gives you a desire. Decision makes it an intention. Action makes it real.

— Joe Vitale

Anyone can desire anything, but if you're not going to commit, you're not getting it.

— Cassey Ho

“We desire justice, and justice has never been obtained in haste and strong feeling.”

— Walter Van Tilburg Clark

“A man who would submit to her desires as willingly as Josh was a heady aphrodisiac.”

— Joey W. Hill

Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?

— Edward Abbey

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. Love is lover's intense passion and desire.

— Butterfly_Kisses

Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by a desire to change his bed.

— Charles Baudelaire

Following your heart's desire will lead you in the direction your spirit wants to go.

— Oprah Winfrey

Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do.

— Robert Genn