Desire Quotes - Page 120

A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.

She was fully, painfully aware that very rarely did midnight strike in two hearts at once, very rarely did midnight arouse two different equal desires, and that any dislocation in this, any indifference, was an indication of disunity, of the difficulties, the impossibilities of fusion between two human beings.

It doesn't matter how much you get; you are left wanting more.

Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.

I have spent many years holding so tightly to things - wants, desires, etc. - but inevitably, they or something even better only arrives when I release the grasp.

My will to live completely overcame my desire to win

It is the thing that is most remote from the world in which we ourselves live that attracts us most. We are under the spell of what is distant from us. It is not our nature to desire passionately what is near at hand.

Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire.

I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with a great deal of pleasure. Why? Because I only do something if I want to do it; I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, moving, inventing.

I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, inventing. The day I cease to learn, I must stop.

No matter what face he wears, Satan has one overmastering ambition, one burning desire-to dethrone the Almighty and to place himself upon the highest throne of the universe.

I have no desire to dress up my poetry and make it fancy. I want the poem to be as true as humanly possible to the feeling that inspired it. That's my only concern. Everything else seems wrong.

Men desire to have some share in the management of public affairs chiefly on account of the importance which it gives them.

Coherence and closure are deep human desires that are presently unfashionable. But they are always both frightening and enchantingly desirable. "Falling in love," characteristically, combs the appearances of the word, and of the particular lover's history, out of a random tangle and into a coherent plot.

Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.

Obviously, raw talent is important, but the difference-maker between first and the rest of the pack is usually desire.

It is my desire and intent to trust the multi-layered good purposes of God than in what humans fabricate out of their need and experience. I specifically ask not to know these purposes so that I might remain a child in their unfolding.

There is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command, and that is the will to obey.

The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling. And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire.

He who has few things to desire cannot have many to fear.

Desire is the absurdity that holds open the infinity of possibility.

There are some things the arrogant mind does not see; it is blinded by its vision of what it desires.

Always be aware that you have the power to create the naturally stress-free and tranquil life you desire.

Above all things, be not made an ass to carry the burdens of other men if any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou has to spare if he presses thee further, he is not thy friend at all.