Desire Quotes · Page 90

Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.

— Laozi

“Every gift we offered was a genuine gift, because it represented a sacrifice and it answered a need, a desire or a…

— Kim Thúy

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

— Bertrand Russell

Flood your mind continually with pictures of the health, happiness, and prosperity that you desire.

— Brian Tracy

We always want what we can't have but always have what we don't need.

— Emanuel Sebastiao

Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.

— T. S. Eliot

A rational man is guided by his thinking - by a process of Reason - not by his feelings and desires.

— Ayn Rand

We found that process praise predicted the child's mindset and desire for challenge five years later.

— Carol S. Dweck

There is no neediness in desire ... there is no caretaking in desire. Caretaking is mightily loving, [but] it's a powerful anti-aphrodisiac.

— Esther Perel

If our principal treasure be as we profess, in things spiritual and heavenly, and woe unto us if it be not so!…

— John Owen

I was tormented by my desire for a woman ... I thought so much about a woman, about women, about all the…

— Albert Camus

There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures…

— Anonymous

My ardent desire is... to keep the United States free from political connexions with every other Country. To see that they may…

— George Washington

Good listeners have a huge advantage. For one, when they engage in conversation, they make people 'feel' heard. They 'feel' that someone…

— Simon Sinek

“You are a door to an existence she does not desire, but even if the room beyond is repugnant, that door has…

— Mohsin Hamid

Poverty should not accumulate to just absence of food: Sometimes its the absence of our ability to ignore other irrelevant desires.

— Anonymous

Beauty—or the desire to be beautiful—is in itself a dangerous motivation. Someone (I forgot who) once said, ‘Does the person who loves…

— Karl Lagerfeld

Jesus has many lovers of His kingdom of heaven, but he has few bearers of His Cross. Many desire His consolation, but…

— Thomas a Kempis

Hunting for malware requires highly specialized knowledge of the intricacies of the domain name system - the protocol that allows us to…

— Franklin Foer

We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as definitive and has as its highest value one's…

— Pope Benedict XVI

You never quite know what you're going to come back to and figure out how to make it work. You never quite…

— Christopher Nolan

... he felt himself to be one of them, who can live neither in the world nor out of it. They are…

— Iris Murdoch

Buddhism doesn't promise to fulfill our desires. Instead it says, 'You feel unfulfilled? That's okay. That's normal. Everybody feels unfulfilled. You will…

— Brad Warner

“Why didn't you write all this time? Did you not remember us in a song? A dance? In the skies littered with…

— Kamand Kojouri

You can be sure that your deepest desires reveal important truths about your spiritual condition.

— Tullian Tchividjian

Doing little things with a strong desire to please God makes them really great.

— Saint Francis de Sales

“Feeling is desire and desire is love. Thought impregnated with love becomes invincible.”

— Rhonda Byrne

Just like a small fire cannot give much heat, a weak desire cannot produce great results¦

— Senoraroy

The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.

— Charles de Gaulle

“Where there is even the subtlest desire, the ‘Eternal Thing’ (Soul) cannot be attained.”

— Dada Bhagwan

The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.

— Margaret Atwood

A wise person once told me that one of the secrets of prayers is to let your faith override your desires!

— Glen Rambharack

Look around you: there is not a doctor who desires the health of his friends, not a soldier who desires peace for…

— Philemon

“Wants are never satiated. In fulfilling one desire, we neglect another.”

— Matt Tomerlin

The desire for love is universal but that has never meant it’s worthy of respect. It’s not admirable to want love, it…

— Rachel Kushner

“No heart that holds onto a right desire can tread the road of loss”

— Krishna

“I have never had the desire, need, nor the inclination to ever be the one to make the one I love cry."…

— R. Alan Woods

“From whence cometh the pounding of desire if not from the depths of loneliness?”

— Martin Cosgrove

Sometime we become victims of our desires misreading our realities.

— Tasneem Hameed

Love manifests itself in our bodies as instinctive craving, in our souls as devotion, and in our minds as pride.

— Bliss Carman