Desire Quote by Francois Fenelon Download Open image “I no longer desire anything but to be Thine.” — Francois Fenelon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire
I don't want to be the ingenue anymore. It's nice to be glamorous, but I don't want to always be an object of desire.… — Scarlett Johansson Copy Share Image
Never lose sight of what you need and what you desire. You might end up with what you never wanted. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires. — John Cleese Copy Share Image
I just desperately wanted to be thin. That's all I thought. I was obsessed with it, which it was ridiculous because I had everything… — Lauren Alaina Copy Share Image
I spent my whole single life trying to be thin just to find someone who'd love me once I got fat. — Stephanie Klein Copy Share Image
“The problem with desire is that you do not desire deeply enough! Why not desire it all? You don’t like what you have and… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
I want guys to want me so bad. I want to walk down the street and get stares because I'm so beautiful and thin. I don't want to be super thin. Thin enough to not be consider fat. Food is the enemy that keeps this from happening. I'm not going to let the taste of food which last for a… — Zaynab Copy Share
My temptation is emotional, and resisting will further my needed weight loss and strengthen my character. Furthermore, nothing tastes as good as thin feels. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
There is no real elevation of mind in a contempt of little things; it is, on the contrary, from too narrow views that we… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
“If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
That love of self, which the world advocates, is a thousand times more dangerous than any poison. — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
There were some who said that a man at the point of death was more free than all others, because death breaks every bond,… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
A general rule for the good use of time is to accustom oneself to live in a continual dependence on the Spirit of God. — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Prayer is so necessary, and the source of so many blessings, that he who has discovered the treasure cannot be prevented from having recourse… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
There is no true and constant gentleness without humility. While we are so fond of ourselves, we are easily offended with others. Let us… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Let me follow in Thy footsteps, O Jesus ! I would imitate Thee, but cannot without the aid of Thy grace! O humble and lowly Saviour, grant me the knowledge of the true Christian, and that I may willingly despise myself; let me learn the lesson so incomprehensible to the mind of man, that I must die to myself by… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share
Our piety must be weak and imperfect if it do not conquer our fear of death. — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is… — John Burns Copy Share Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her up, though tottering himself. He felt as if his head were filled with smoke; flashes of light slipped through his eyelids; his thoughts vanished; it seemed to him that he was performing a religious act, and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded me for having an excess of feeling, saying that I was too sensitive - as if one could be in danger from feeling too much instead of too little. But my outsize emotions were well represented… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share
I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image