“Life is either about accepting what exists or creating what is desired.” — Steven Redhead Copy Share Image
“What I seem to like may not be what my soul actually desires.” — Padma Aon Prakasha Copy Share Image
...Everything that is, desires to be. As we act, we unfold our being. Enjoyment naturally follows, for a thing desired always brings… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Desires going before conversion are not such as can calm a storming conscience. — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
“All our desires are desires of the soul, ultimately, Though they look like desires mental or sensory; - 39 -” — Munindra Misra Copy Share Image
Riches don't respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Coeur qui soupire n'a pas ce qu'il desire. The heart that sighs does not have what it desires. — Sarah Strohmeyer Copy Share Image
“Your primary desire, says Epictetus, should be your desire not to be frustrated by forming desires you won’t be able to fulfill.” — William B. Irvine Copy Share Image
To let go is not to adjust everything to my desires, but to take each day as it comes and cherish myself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Lose myself in your blueberry eyes Magnolia, kiss your mauve lips of grapes, squeeze your fleshy, milky macaroon breasts,smell your opium breath… — Laura Gentile Copy Share Image
“Once your past no longer has the power to define you, your future is, quite literally, yours for the taking. Every single… — Dan Pearce Copy Share Image
Fashion is one of the most intellectually vacuous industries. We had to manufacture desires to get people to buy our products. We… — Douglas Tompkins Copy Share Image
I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Thirsting desires and longings possessed my soul after perfect holiness. God was so precious to my soul that the world with all… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
My requirements and my desires are relatively small - things like having a bed, a shower... A bathtub is usually high on… — Melody Gardot Copy Share Image
A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At some point, extra incomes don't go to sate desires but to attempt to buy status through 'positional goods' - like the… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“A man is a free being who is always changing into himself. This changing is never merely indifferent. We are always getting… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Nothing is more human than for man to desire naturally things impossible to his nature. It is, indeed, the property of a… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
“...if there really is some day discovered a formula for all our desires and caprices - that is, an explanation of what… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up. Like a… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I had wanted to be a novelist for so long, but I didn't have a story. That story came from the death… — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
Life is short and tedious, and is wholly spent in wishing; we trust to find rest and enjoyment at some future time,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“What God has planned for us is far better than what we desire to behold.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Burzum is the reflections of my personality. It's my dreams and desires. — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
The desires of adults are not more important than the needs of children. — Tim Walberg Copy Share Image