When man can "wish away worrying," every desire will be instantly fulfilled. — Florence Scovel Shinn Copy Share Image
Be a good man to Allah and a bad man to yourself (desires); and be one of the commoners among the people — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
“Part those sheets like holy waters and I will worship you skin like a born-again believer.” — Tyler Knott Gregson Copy Share Image
“Show me a man that is not passion's slave and I will wear him in my heart's core.” — Shakespeare, William Copy Share Image
“There was something about a book that inspired dedication and a swelling desire to possess it.” — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be BELIEF, not… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“All I need to do is place my pen against paper and your love writes for me.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
A person could last a long while without touch, but once someone had experienced the comfort, joy, and sheer relief of another… — Mary Johnson Copy Share Image
If you distill the essence of everything, what life is about, every single one of us is given a short moment in… — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
The electric energy which motivates us is not within our bodies at all. It is a part of the universal supply which… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
You must start with desire, keeping in mind that with the magic of believing you can obtain what you picture in your… — Claude M. Bristol Copy Share Image
Reconciliation with our enemies is simply a desire to better our condition, a weariness of war, or the fear of some unlucky… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Going onstage is like going into battle. You're ultimately there to win. It's driven and fuelled by passion and a desire to… — Keith Flint Copy Share Image
Responsibility is the key to creating the life you desire. You have the ability to respond in any way you want to.… — Michael Barbarulo Copy Share Image
There will he nothing more that posterity can add to our immoral habits; our descendants must have the same desires and act… — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Ambition is the desire to go forward and improve one's condition. It is a burning flame that lights up the life of… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
I can't give a formula for how to spread joy, but I know that the source of the joy is one's own… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
“How strange is it that our beloved finds its way to us in everything? The orange moon, a freckle, the smell of… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
The more power a government has the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the elite, and… — Rudolph Rummel Copy Share Image
“It was the impatience of the way he tore my panties from my body, that really turned me on: I was all… — Fiona Thrust Copy Share Image
It is a psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind; that is,… — Orison S. Marden Copy Share Image
We are all dying, every moment that passes of every day. That is the inescapable truth of this existence. It is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What you call passion is not a spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world. Where passion dominates, that… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Prayer [is] the quiet, persistent living of our life of desire and faith in the presence of our God. — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
I have never in my life taken a command into battle and had the slightest desire to come out alive unless I… — Philip Sheridan Copy Share Image
All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
All action is generated by desire. It is the desire to live that causes us to reincarnate. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
Lovers feel a certain burning in their hearts. A deep longing and desire to meet with the beloved creates that burning. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a dark time, the eye begins to see / I meet my shadow in the deepening shade...Dark, dark my light, and… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
It's nice to watch great acts perform their material. But I can't say that it tweaks any desire within. — Andrew Ridgeley Copy Share Image
“Your feelings are the utmost priority, your desires are more important than anyone else's deadline or mandate.” — Regena Thomashauer Copy Share Image
I live by the spirit so I don't gratify all them old sinful desires that never satisfy. — LeCrae Copy Share Image
“transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation and desire into undertaking.” — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
Define your desire as plan and make all efforts to take it shape as action. — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have either one. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image