Desire Quotes - Page 17

Free from desire, you realize the mystery, caught in the desire, you see only the manifestations.

Singing is as much the language of holy joy as praying is of holy desire.

The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires.

That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires.

I’d like to see Manhattan underwater. I’d like to see when the human population plummets and there are no more high rises, because nobody’s buying them. I’m excited about that. Money and desire—all that is going to collapse, and wild green grasses are going to take over.

At its heart, legalism is a desire to appear holy. It is trying to be justified before men and not God.

Trusting your intuition means tuning in as deeply as you can to the energy you feel, following that energy moment to moment, trusting that it will lead you where you want to go and bring you everything you desire.

A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled. Those who laugh at this folly are, after all, no more than mere spectators of life.

For to pretend that men may live habitually sinful lives without any attempt by the Spirit to mortify sin in them, nor with any desire for repentance, is to deny the Christian religion.

God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.

Desire means never quit.

Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

The end of desire is the end of sorrow.

If you yourself desire establishment, then help others to get establishment; if you yourself want success, then help others to attain success.

Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. You must learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want.

The object of man's desire is not to enjoy once only, and for one instant of time; but to assure for ever, the way of his future desires.

If there is no honesty, there is no relationship. The only degree to which there is a relationship is the degree to which you are honest. Expressing your clear desires does not make you a dictator and you telling what you think, feel, and what you want or don’t want, is just called being honest. It doesn't control him at all. You’re trying to control others by withholding information by not getting involved and by not being honest. Withholding information is a form of manipulation. It is dishonest and it’s destructive to a relationship.

The only thing required of you is to allow all your raging desires to relax into preferences. Then everything will be done through you and for you, not by you.

Don't allow your animal nature to rule your reason.

Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.

What I desire most of you, my son, is never to gamble or swear. These are baneful vices.

Believe in yourself and know that you can do anything in this world that you want to do if you want to do it badly enough and you are willing to travel the road. Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass.

Negro producers, Negro distributors, Negro consumers! The world of Negroes can be self contained. We desire earnestly to deal with the rest of the world, but if the rest of the world desire not, we seek not

The great fault in women is to desire to be like men.

Properly understood, then, the desire to act justly derives in part from the desire to express most fully what we are or can be, namely free and equal rational beings with the liberty to choose.