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Desire Quotes by Henri Nouwen
- Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is to be despised, denied, or…
- The dance of life finds its beginnings in grief......Here a completely new way of living is revealed. It is the way in which pain can…
- Joy is what makes life worth living, but for many joy seems hard to find. They complain that their lives are sorrowful and depressing. What…
- The mystery of the spiritual life is that Jesus desires to meet us in the seclusion of our own heart, to make his love known…
- The life-converting experience is not the discovery that I have choices to make that determine the way I live out my existence, but the awareness…
- Of one thing I am sure. Complaining is self-perpetuating and counterproductive. Whenever I express my complaints in the hope of evoking pity and receiving the…
- The resistance to praying is like the resistance of tightly clenched fists. This image shows a tension, a desire to cling tightly to yourself, a…
- Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to…
- While optimism makes us live as if someday soon things will soon go better for us, hope frees us from the need to predict the…
- God is faithful to God's promises. Before you die, you will find acceptance and the love you crave. It will not come in the way…
More Desire Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire… — Aristotle
- Listen to what you know instead of what you fear. — Richard Bach
- Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. — Neil Armstrong
- I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly… — Chinua Achebe
- Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first… — Saint Augustine
- Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires. — Saint Augustine