Own Desire Quotes
19 quotes by 19 authors
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The idea of man as the dominant mammal of the earth whose whole behaviour tends to be dominated by his own desire for dominance gripped…
— Frank Macfarlane Burnet
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Code wants to be simple... I had to give up the idea that I had the perfect vision of the system to which the system…
— Kent Beck
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By maintaining our attention on what's going on within others, we offer them a chance to fully explore and express their interior selves. We would…
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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Democracy is not about trust; it is about distrust. It is about accountability, exposure, open debate, critical challenge, and popular input and feedback from the…
— Michael Parenti
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It is not merely our own desire but the desire of Christ in His Spirit that drives us to grow in love. Those who seldom…
— Thomas Merton
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Carving is a source of joy to the artist. . . . To attack the raw material, gradually to extract a shape out of it…
— Aristide Maillol
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The hardest part of being a Christian is surrendering and that is where the real struggle happens. Once we have overcome our own desire to…
— Rich Mullins
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Very often pessimistic people speak against their own desire. They want to undertake some work, and they say, 'I will do this, but I don't…
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
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There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women. These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate…
— Adam Weishaupt
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Love is never abstract. It does not adhere to the universe or the planet or the nation or the institution or the profession, but to…
— Wendell Berry
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Action that is inspired from aligned thought is joyful action. Action that is offered from a place of contridicted thought is hard work that is…
— Esther Hicks
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When we experience our own desire for transformation, we are feeling the universe evolving through us.
— Barbara Marx Hubbard
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I am fond of reminding my yoga students of the saying "It takes one to know one" when they become lost I condemnation and judgment…
— Prem Prakash
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It is our own pain, and our own desire to be free of it, that alerts us to the suffering of the world. It is…
— Sylvia Boorstein
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The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else in…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring, as far as…
— Baruch Spinoza
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My guess is that she is uncomfortable in such an intransigent world but is unable to live accordingly to her own desire.
— Hanif Kureishi
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Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or…
— Cheryl Strayed
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Every man makes a god of his own desire.
— Virgil
Who Wrote These Own Desire Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 19 Own Desire Quotes as follows: