Desire Quotes - Page 124

A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him.

Our nation is filled with tremendous energy of the youth. Whatever future we desire of, we must keep the youth at the centre. If we do this, we can surge ahead at an unmatchable pace!

People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail. The fear of criticism, in such cases is stronger than the DESIRE for success.

Nothing was ever created by a human being that was not first created in the imagination through desire and then transformed into reality through concentration.

Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement. Just as the electron is the last unit of matter discernible to the scientist. DESIRE is the seed of all achievement; the starting place, back of which there is nothing, or at least there is nothing of which we have any knowledge.

It is only by frequent deaths of ourselves and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully.

Aren't we living in a world where heedless men only desire decapitated women?

She who desires to see, desires also to be seen.

Caring is irrelevant. Desire to do good is irrelevant. All that counts is knowledge and results

Human memory awakens and extinguishes at will. It dulls and sharpens actions, enlarges and shrinks those who perform them. It humbles and exalts as it desires. When summoned, it slips away, and when it returns, it will do so at the time and place that suits it. It recognizes no chief, no overseer, no classifier, no ruler. Stories mix and mingle, facts sprout new shoots. The situations and words and scents-oh, the scents!-encrusted there are stored in the most disorganized and wonderful manner, not chronologically, not according to size or importance or even the alphabet.

We look at each other without saying anything, both of us smiling like idiots. I heart is so full I can’t believe it can possibly still beat without bursting right in front of me. My desire for him is so fierce I’m afraid to stand, because I know my knees will be too weak to hold me up, but there’s more than that. This great and bursting thing inside me is love.

Even in heavenly pleasures he finds no satisfaction, the disciple who is fully awakened delights only in the destruction of all desires.

Those that abide in Christ as their heart's desire shall have, through Christ, their heart's desire.

I shall be supplied with whatever I need; and, if I have not everything I desire, I may conclude it is either not fit for me, or I shall have it in due time.

I always had the desire to perform. If it wasn't my career now, I'd still be doing amateur dramatics. It's just something you love, and when you get paid to do it, you pinch yourself every day.

Seek and Hide: the Lover gazes at the Beloved. The Beloved looks away. The Beloved turns and looks at the Lover. The Lover runs away.

My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived.

Desire is wakeful; satisfaction dozes.

Dreams are distorted representations of desire. So are dream- analyses.

The desire to perform impedes conversation.

My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures.

Make the expectations lively enough, and action will follow.

Smiling half-reluctance seems to promise more than the frankest gesture of desire.

The desire to be significant casts a pall.

We want to take action out of the desire to contribute to life rather than out of fear, guilt, shame, or obligation.