Deeds Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley

... our natural Will is to have God, and the Good Will of God is to have us; and we may never cease from…

— Julian of Norwich

Above all we must not wish to cling to our suffering. Suffering surely deepens us and enhances our person, but we must not desire…

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

In the depths of the human soul... the desire to give meaning to one's own life is joined by the fleeting vision of beauty…

— Pope John Paul II

When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.

— Dallas Willard

What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through…

— Alain de Botton

Our desires are the way that the healing life force comes through us and replenishes our bodies.

— Christiane Northrup

We must look deeply into the nature of our volition to see whether it is pushing us in the direction of liberation from suffering…

— Nhat Hanh

Why will we struggle to attain, and strive, When all we gain is but an empty dream?-- Better, unto my thinking, doth it seem…

— Madison Cawein

“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

We exist in order to actualize the deepest desires of our hearts.

— Deepak Chopra

There is scarcely a single joy or sorrow within the experience of our fellow-creatures which we have not tasted; yet the belief, in the…

— Leigh Hunt

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and…

— Joseph Addison