Generosity of spirit Quote by Kathleen Norris

“We enter the world with innocent needs. Sustenance. Shelter. Nuturing. Connection. We grow, learning through reward, to want. Toys. Cars. Money. Connection. When reward…

— Ellen Hopkins

“Desire is the starting point for achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.”

— Cynthia Lewis

“A desire of desires: the melancholy.”

— Anonymous

Where there is no want, there is usually much wantonness.

— John Flavel

Want is a bitter and a hateful good, Because its virtues are not understood; Yet many things, impossible to thought, Have been by need…

— John Dryden

“Our wants and longings and desires are at the core of our identity, the wellspring from which our actions and behavior flow.”

— James K.A. Smith

“hard-wired to seek love, joy, fulfillment—and health. Though we’ve too often been talked out of our desires as children,”

— Christiane Northrup

This human need for mysticism – surrender to an unknown truth, union – stands at the helm of all romantic feeling. It is, in…

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

“Desire lies at the heart of who God made us to be, who we are at our core. Desire is both our greatest frailty…

— Dan B. Allender

“He was what she wanted, but it would mean so much more after a charged friendship; that long, exquisite exchange of gradually more intimate…

— Iain M. Banks

“So much of desire, at that age, was a willful act. Trying so hard to slur the rough, disappointing edges of boys into the…

— Emma Cline

“The loss of an eager and unrestrained longing for someone or the lack of an unyielding desire of momentous incidents in life may blur…

— Erik Pevernagie