Desire Quotes - Page 16

Without hope we live in desire.

It's not who jumps the highest - it's who wants it the most

Desire and longing are the whips of God.

There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.

What we desire our children to become, we must endeavor to be before them

We desire to possess a beauty that is worth pursuing, worth fighting for, a beauty that is core to who we truly are. We want beauty that can be seen; beauty that can be felt; beauty that affects others; a beauty all our own to unveil.

I may have the genetic coding that Im inclined to be an alcoholic, but I have the desire not to do that, and I look at the homosexual issue the same way.

When God works in us, the will, being changed and sweetly breathed upon by the Spirit of God, desires and acts, not from compulsion, but responsively.

I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of all my works is the search for utopias lost and rediscovered.

Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly, that you feel you could die of it!

True desire in the heart for anything good is God's proof to you sent beforehand to indicate that it's yours already.

Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

The desire to be self-supporting and financially independent is a divine desire

Prayer [is] the quiet, persistent living of our life of desire and faith in the presence of our God.

Those in power need checks and restraints lest they come to identify the common good for their own tastes and desires, and their continuation in office as essential to the preservation of the nation.

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.

Nothing perceivable is real.Your attachment is your bondage. You cannot control the future.There is no such thing as free will. Will is bondage.You identify yourself with your desires and become their slave.

In the desire of the One to know Himself, We exist.

Previous to this time I had never even a balloon except from a distance. Being interested in their construction, I was about to institute a thorough examination of all its parts, when the aeronaut announced that all was ready. He inquired whether I desired to go up alone, or he should accompany me. My desire, if frankly expressed, would have been not to go up at all; but if I was to go, company was certainly desirable. With an attempt at indifference, I intimated that he might go along.

I have spent my life resisting the desire to end it.

In every living thing there is the desire for love.

The necessity of saying something, the embarrassment produced by the consciousness of having nothing to say, and the desire to exhibit ability, are three things sufficient to render even a great man ridiculous.

Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.

I feel a great desire to abandon myself with greater trust to the Divine Mercy and to place my hope in God alone.

The universe is the way it is , whether we like it or not. The existence or nonexistence of a creator is independent of our desires . A world without God or purpose may seem harsh or pointless, but that alone doesn ' t require God to actually exist.