Desire Quotes - Page 122

I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.

If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.

Coeur qui soupire n'a pas ce qu'il desire. The heart that sighs does not have what it desires.

Colleen McCullough taught me that desire is the heart of romance.

The desire to be the object of public attention is weak, but the excessive dread of it is but a form of vanity and over-self-contemplativeness.

Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by what he can desire.

We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure.

My most cherished desire is to help our women come out of their routine chores and infuse in them the indefatigable spirit of adventure.

To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.

Let him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God’s debtor.

There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.

All your restlessness is out of your desire for stillness Just desire restlessly, then, love will fill and still you. All your unhealthiness is out of your desire for health, Just abandon health, then, even poison will heal you.

A boy of to-day is affected by every change of tone and gust of opinion, so that he lies even when he desires to speak the truth.

Is the scene always visual? It can be aural, the frame can be linguistic: I can fall in love with a sentence spoken to me: and not only because it says something which manages to touch my desire, but because of its syntactical turn (framing), which will inhabit me like a memory.

In all the areas of life where people have sought and found consolation through forbidding their desires-sex in particular, and taste in general-the habit of judgment is now to be stamped out.

Men are not rich or poor according to what they possess but to what they desire. The only rich man is he that with content enjoys a competence.

The worst reason to do magic is the desire to display your superiority to your fellow humans.

For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudences of the brawling world reach you no more.

One of the consistent themes you'll find throughout the Bible is that God will always provide the necessary information about Jesus Christ to someone who sincerely desires to receive that revelation.

God's love means that our Creator desires to have a relationship with us. God's holiness prevents him from having fellowship with us and, instead, demands the outpouring of his anger against us.

Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

What a rare joy it is to linger in the lucid, transcendent worlds of Jennifer Maier's poems. In taut, precise language and lapidary images, Now, Now explores myriad pathways of connection, the ways desire, longing, and imaginative possibility brush up against the everyday, revealing a keen, fiercely compassionate intelligence-a sensibility so finely attuned and so clearly in love with the world that you would follow it almost anywhere.

The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.

No man is rich who is unsatisfied, but who wants nothing possess his heart's desire.