Our desires, be they spiritual or temporal, should be rooted in a love of the Lord. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
I don't have the vocal dexterity, nor do I have the desire to put myself in among the giants. — Nigel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You know, it is not God's desire to conceal but to reveal. The word revelation means "unveiling." — Greg Laurie Copy Share Image
To pray is to desire; but it is to desire what God would have us desire. — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
My true desire is to relieve others of their pain, though I myself may fall into hell. — Bassui Tokusho Copy Share Image
Unless we retain a vibrant desire to be free, and unless we understand and practice the principles that give life to essential… — Dean L. Larsen Copy Share Image
My husband has no desire to work with me. He gets paid a lot of money to write giant movies. He's not… — Busy Philipps Copy Share Image
“The quest for enlightenment illustrates the paradox of desire—the fact that you must have desire to be motivated to transcend being ruled… — Paul O'Brien Copy Share Image
Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live; science, everything that sharpens the desire to know. Art, even the most disinterested,… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
“Delighting in the Lord, knowing His Word, and committing yourself to Him are ways to ensure that your plans and desires for… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
For if you know what you want, and will be content with it, you can be trusted. But if you do not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Beauty without wit offers nothing but the enjoyment of its material charms, whilst witty ugliness captivates by the charms of the mind,… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
When you tell me to be good, it makes me want to be good,' I say, hearing the undisguised desire in my… — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
If one's desire for change is an earnest desire to see things improve, then surely there is a state in which things… — Bret Weinstein Copy Share Image
“Well, since you're not going to do anything with me—can you at least read me a story? I'd settle for that. I… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
If the goal is to realize the Supreme Being, you should become egoless. That requires self-effort. The sadhak should work hard. He… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
When you meet the one. It just clicks. Clicking is important in a relationship. When you click, you share the same passion… — Rita Zahara Copy Share Image
“My friend Gordon Wheeler, who is a psychologist, explains that grief is the reminder of the depth of our love. Without love,… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The king, just and prudent, wants only those things which he can get. — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
I've learned over the years that the writing is smarter and far larger than the writer and his or her own desires… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Be a function of your values rather than a function of the impulse or desire of any given moment. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
“One of the chief characteristics of Barnes' Desire was that it was definite.” — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
...if all we mean by our love is a craving to be loved, we are in a very deplorable state. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“By the time the first light appeared in the sky she felt herself transformed by the desire to be known, completely.” — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
I know that in my own mind, I struggle with a desire to be both entirely absent and entirely present in any… — K. Flay Copy Share Image
“I have an innate desire to take my senses by surprise and expose them to the naked beauty of this earth.” — Sabah Carrim Copy Share Image
The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The longing for sweets is really a yearning for love or 'sweetness. — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is… — Beatrix Potter Copy Share Image
Always ask God to give you what you deserve, not what you desire. It's because your desires may be few, but you… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments. — Maggie Gallagher Copy Share Image
