Desire Quotes - Page 106

We can most easily fulfill our desires when our actions are motivated by love. We expand the least effort, and we offer no resistance. We tap into the infinite organizing power of the universe to do less and accomplish everything.

Everything I desire is within me.

I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.

Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts.

We have a dangerous tendency to misunderstand, minimize, and even manipulate the gospel in order to accommodate our assumptions and our desires.

Whenever you are questioning a person's desire for something, consider what he does, not necessarily what he says.

All victims have experienced a loss-a thwarted desire or aspiration-even if they're not aware of it.

I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have lead them through such sorrow to their fate?

But already my desire and my will were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed, by the Love which moves the sun and the other stars

Give it your all. Give it away. Your desires are being held in the hand of the cosmos with incredibly sturdy care. Life is not testing you. She is rooting for you.

We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires.

We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it.

My overall approach toward art is to remain as open as possible in front of the world, to always be curious, not to be afraid to experiment, and have a sense of self-criticism and a general criticism toward the surrounding. Also, trying to make a difference between serious research and pure gag! And making as few compromises as possible toward doing things that might not be accepted by the majority of society, even if this dominant society is the one which is ruling the art world. To keep this fundamental idea, even if it's a bit trivial: to have the desire to transform the world.

You are rich if you have enough money to satisfy all your desires. So there are two ways to be rich: you earn, inherit, borrow, beg, or steal enough money to meet all your desires; or you cultivate a simple lifestyle of few desires; that way you always have enough money.

Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom.

Most of our troubles are due to our passionate desire for and attachment to things that we misapprehend as enduring entities.

We must recognize that all beings want the same thing we want. This is the way to achieve a true understanding, unfettered by artificial consideration.

The gratification of desire is not happiness.

With faith in the merciful Redeemer and His power, potential despair turns to hope. One's very heart and desires change, and the once-appealing sin becomes increasingly abhorrent. A resolve to abandon and forsake the sin and to repair, as fully as one possibly can, the damage he or she has caused now forms in that new heart. This resolve soon matures into a covenant of obedience to God. With that covenant in place, the Holy Ghost, the messenger of divine grace, will bring relief and forgiveness.

It takes a long time to become a lawyer because you need three things - a bachelor's degree, a law degree, and a desire to worship Satan.

The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.

The superior man does what is proper to the station in which he is; he does not desire to go beyond this.

The gentleman desires to be halting in speech but quick in action.

In our desire to impose form on the world and our lives we have lost the capacity to see the form that is already there; and in that lies not liberation but alienation, the cutting off from things as they really are.