Desire Quotes - Page 125

As radical as it may seem, it is possible to do things only out of play. I believe that to the degree that we engage moment by moment in the playfulness of enriching life- motivated solely by the desire for its enrichment- to that degree are we being compassionate with ourselves.

Part of my driving desire as a pastor is to remove every obstacle except the cross that would keep people from coming to faith in Christ.

Desire can blind us to the hazards of our enterprises.

Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.

The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.

I desire no other proof of Christianity than the Lord's Prayer.

Fairyland is the loveliest word because it means everything the human heart desires.

Some feelings are stronger than fear: love, longing, desire.

...and the most intense desire gave force to her passionate words as the girl glanced despairingly about the dreary room like a caged creature on the point of breaking loose.

All you need is something to say, and a burning desire to say it... it doesn't matter where your hands are.

All I desire for my own burial, is not to be buried alive; but how or where, I think, must be entirely indifferent to every rational creature.

O painter skilled in anatomy, beware lest the undue prominence of the bones, sinews and muscles cause you to become a wooden painter from the desire to make your nude figures reveal all.

Whatever the heart desires, it purchases at the cost of soul

It’s hard to accept yourself as someone you don’t desire / As someone you don’t want to be.

The True Person benefits yet expects no reward, does the work and moves on. There is no desire to be considered better than others.

The sage desires no desire, does not value rare treasures, learns without learning, recovers what people have left behind.

We desire to understand the world by giving names to the things we see, but these things are only the effects of something subtle.

I had a great time in my youth and I still feel youthful. I've no desire to look as though I'm in my 20s.

Conditions of thought, memory, and desire, persuaded by impulse and irrationality, are influenced as well by personal aesthetics and private meanings.

A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!

The thing for me is I never had this burning desire to do a solo record my whole life.

That faculty of beholding at a hint the face of his desire and the shape of his dream, without which the earth would know no lover and no adventurer.

I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid importance.

In my own case I have frequently faced the pitcher when I had no desire whatever to hit. I wanted to get a base on balls.

In our pursuit of the things of this world, we usually prevent enjoyment, by expectation; we anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures, by delightful forethoughts of them; so that when we come to possess them, they do not answer the expectation, nor satisfy the desires which were raised about them, and they vanish into nothing.