Whoever desires to purify his heart, then let him prefer Allah to his desires — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
“Despite the cold chill, she burned inside with a hunger she didn’t want to dismiss. Not tonight.” — Katherine McIntyre Copy Share Image
Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Since all living beings are bound by their craving for existence, you must begin by finding the determination to be free. — Je Tsongkhapa Copy Share Image
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“All beings desire pleasure, a surcease of need or want, and there is no shame in that.” — Sherri L. King Copy Share Image
What's powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It's seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the… — Patrick Swayze Copy Share Image
To love anyone personally is bondage.Love all alike,then all desires fall off — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
We have years to converse with someone, to blurt and rant, to explain our desires and anger and regrets - and oh… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
I have a weakness for treating people's economic interests as their only interest, ignoring things like belonging and pride and the desire… — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not… — Sallust Copy Share Image
Learn to distinguish what you can and can't control. Within our control are our own opinions, aspirations, desires and the things that… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Each week I am forced to revise my original opinion that Facebook is a great innovation for keeping people in touch, to… — Emily Yoffe Copy Share Image
We have been frustrated that there are a number of incumbents in Maryland offices who have been in office for years and… — John Mahoney Copy Share Image
I never had a burning desire to direct. But Burt and I, on many pictures together, used to watch other directors and… — Hal Needham Copy Share Image
A desire to rescue secular America from fallen grace has driven conservative evangelicals at least since the 1970s, when Jerry Falwell formed… — Nina Easton Copy Share Image
One of the principal reasons why so many fail to get what they want is because they do not definitely know what… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
Seek no praise, no reward, for anything you do. No sooner do we perform a good action than we begin to desire… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I have decided to leave Clea’s last letter un-answered. I no longer wish to coerce anyone, to make promises, to think of… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
I think a part of evolution is the desire to know yourself, and know the world you live in, and discover everything… — Audra McDonald Copy Share Image
As far as I can remember, I have always wanted everything from life, everything it can possibly give me. This desire separates… — Deborah Feldman Copy Share Image
I decided to be an actress, and the day after, I was an actress. That was quick and very scary at the… — Carole Bouquet Copy Share Image
Only the brave should teach…Teaching is a vocation. It is as sacred as priesthood; as innate a desire, as inescapable as the… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The one who has no control over his desires has no control over his mind. — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
If we're not listened to, then that doesn't create a desire inside us to listen to others. Societally, we don't value it. — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
Preceding accomplishment must be desire. Thy desires must be strong and definite. — George S. Clason Copy Share Image
We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans... — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“Removing possessions begins to turn back our desire for more as we find freedom, happiness, and abundance in owning less. And” — Joshua Becker Copy Share Image
“You can never quench your spiritual craving through material means.” — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
I don't have a driving desire to be all encompassing and world powerful or anything. — Santiago Durango Copy Share Image
Ethics: The indispensable interface between my desire to be happy and yours. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The smallness of our desires may contribute reasonably to our wealth. — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
The cuties I desire, I be the first to set it on off, flame on like the Human Torch. — Method Man Copy Share Image
The cues that arouse desire are changed by Fashion, but feel like the proddings of Nature. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The craving for things we think are outside ourselves binds us to suffering. — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
But you have to allow a little for the desire to evangelize when you think you have good news. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Who doth desire that chaste his wife should be, first be he true, for truth doth truth deserve. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
To succeed takes more than the desire to win. It also takes the acceptance that we could fail. — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
I feel like there's a desire for a sense of permanence that is growing in me. — Francois Arnaud Copy Share Image
