Desire Quotes · Page 103

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.

— Ram Dass

I can wade through contrast and give birth to desires without yielding my Well Being.

— Esther Hicks

“The desires of the flesh leads to sin. But the delight of the spirit leads to life.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“For certain I get what I focus on. So I make certain to focus on the good I desire.”

— Pam Malow-Isham

“Falling in desire with truth and hope is enhancing our soul with a precious love...”

— Soar Soaring-Words.com

A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.

— Bertrand Russell

If one desires to receive one must first give. This is called profound understanding.

— Laozi

Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance.

— Bertrand Russell

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the…

— Blaise Pascal

You can't throw your ego away, but you can use its innate desire to experience that which is beyond itself to give…

— Frederick Lenz

Often we will find that while we are uplifting others, we will also be uplifted and our desires will be revealed to…

— Porsha Williams

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I resolved from the beginning of my quest that I would not be misled by sentiment and desire into beliefs for which…

— Bertrand Russell

“There are desires to return, to love, to not disappear, and there are desires to die, fought by two opposing waters that…

— César Vallejo

I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a…

— David Foster Wallace

I crave the indulgence of my senses but this is countered by an interior desire that is even keener than my senses…

— Errol Flynn

The world does not yield to changing. By its very nature it is painful and transient. See it as it is and…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“I'd heard about people falling in love, and I'd heard about lust. What I had never heard about was this all-consuming need…

— Ella Frank

I deplore the horrible crime as child murder....no matter what the motive, love of ease, or desire to save from suffering the…

— Susan B. Anthony

I am blind. I am also a stand-up comedian and actor who has benefited from the desire of a very small number…

— Chris McCausland

Lust is a mysterious wound in the side of humanity; or rather, at the very source of its life! To confound this…

— Georges Bernanos

Even though I don't agree with either Sarah Palin or Michele Bachmann on virtually anything, I do think the unique scrutiny -…

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

My father... never required me to study anything, but he knew how to inspire in me a great desire for knowledge. Before…

— Andre-Marie Ampere

We must learn a new modesty. We have stormed the heavens, but succeeded only in building fog upon fog, a mist which…

— Hermann Weyl

Knowing what you don't want can often be more valuable than knowing what you do want.

— Melchor Lim

To multiply the years and divide by the desire to live is a kind of false accounting.

— Peter Heller

I - Want - Peace, I is ego, Want is desire; Remove ego and desire and you have peace.

— Sathya Sai Baba

“The craving became almost unbearable, and he felt his heart break with the wanting.”

— William Lashner

Freedom is within oneself. But to get beyond the thoughts and desires requires power.

— Frederick Lenz

Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.

— Fay Weldon

Were we perfectly acquainted with the object, we should never passionately desire it.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.

— Francis Bacon

Your focus needs to be on your goals and desires, rather than your fears and worries.

— Nishchal Ningleku

Everyone desires trust, appreciation, love, respect, support, friendship and success.

— Enhance Dreams

One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.

— Edith Stein

We need not regard what good a friend has done us, but only his desire to do us good.

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

Intensity is the desire to receive. Open yourself to light and you will become light.

— Jeanette Winterson

“If you desire something, and trust that it will come to you, then you will have it.”

— Mike Basevic

“Few things are as painful as the unfulfilled desire to be near to another you love.”

— Sandra Lee Dennis

If you don't get the ending you desire.... have faith in the magic of new beginnings.

— Rita Zahara