Desire Quotes - Page 103

Las Vegas was and is a hard town that will make you pay for your inability to restrain your desires.... If you have a weakness, Las Vegas will punish you.

In these times - where social appearance is more important than spiritual substance - what has become our longing to change is really the unconscious desire to control not just the shape of our bodies (according to prevailing values) but to dominate our environment as well, regardless of the cost.

The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you've been harboring since you were 7.

Thought is the first faculty of man; to express it is one of his first desires; to spread it, his dearest privilege.

Be an earnest student of yourself. Study your leading desires and tendencies.

Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.

Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.

I never worked at painting as if it were a job; it was always out of interest or for fun, a desire to try something.

I'm glad I want everything in the world - good and bad - bitter and sweet - I want it all.

I dare not say with Paul that I am the slave of Christ, but my highest aspiration and desire is to be the slave of Christ.

There is no inborn longing that shall not be fulfilled. I think that is as certain as the forgiveness of sins.

The great desire of this age is for a doctrine which may serve to condense our knowledge, guide our researches, and shape our lives, so that conduct may really be the consequence of belief

In one way, I'm never going to get out of this material world unless it's by His grace but then again, His grace is relative to the amount of desire I can manifest in myself.

The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.

A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.

Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.

A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing.

The desire to run comes from deep within us — from the unconscious, the intuitive, the instinctive. And that desire becomes a passion when the runner learns to race. Then, the race becomes all — the lovemaking of the runner.

In history an additional result is commonly produced by human actions beyond that which they aim at and obtain -- that which they immediately recognize and desire. They gratify their own interest; but something further is thereby accomplished, latent in the actions in question, though not present to their consciousness, and not included in their design.

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

Do not vainly lament, but do wonder at the rule of transiency and learn from it the emptiness of human life. Do not cherish to unworthy desire that the changeable might become unchanging.

Sit Rest Work. Alone with yourself, Never weary. On the edge of the forest Live joyfully, Without desire.

Truth is always truth, untruth is always untruth. This is what matters, this is right desire.

If desires are not uprooted, sorrows grow again in you.