Desire Quotes - Page 21

God often does His best work in us when He catches us by surprise and introduces a change that is completely against our own desire.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.

Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.

We set forth our petitions before God, not in order to make known to Him our needs and desires, but rather so that we ourselves may realize that in these things it is necessary to turn to God for help.

You have to find a group that really desperately cares about what it is you have to say. Talk to them. They have something I call otaku. It's a great Japanese word. It describes the desire of someone who's obsessed to, say, drive across Tokyo to try a new Ramen noodle place 'cause that's what they do, they get obsessed with it.

Desire is proof of the availability.

It is peculiar to “ressentiment criticism” that it does not seriously desire that its demands be fulfilled. It does not want to cure the evil. The evil is merely the pretext for the criticism.

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

Beneath the skin, there is fear. Pain. Remorse. Yearning. Desire. A fierce longing for power. All of this. We are joined. It is as if we live in the center of a great storm. Around us the world of the realms revolves like a giant kaleidoscope, images refracted again and again. So many worlds! So much to know.

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

Most people have desires that are great and they want to do great things, and they don't want to be negative people or they don't want to live in pessimistic attitudes, but the problem is a lot of them were not given the right tools. They were not given the right blueprint of how to build a building.

Don't trap yourself with the desire of wanting to be liked.

If you have the ability to desire it, the Universe has the ability to deliver it. You've just got to line up with what you want, which means— be as happy as you can be as often as you can be there, and let everything else take care of itself.

The abundance you desire to experience must first be an experience in your mind.

Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions.

Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.

Not only do you want to leave the audience wanting more, you want to leave yourself wanting more.

There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition

The discipline in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.

Our visions begin with our desires.

So your desire is to do nothing? Well, you shall not have a week, a day, an hour, free from oppression. You shall not be able to lift anything without agony. Every passing minute will make your muscles crack. What is feather to others will be a rock to you. The simplest things will become difficult. Life will become monstrous about you. To come, to go, to breathe, will be so many terrible tasks for you. Your lungs will feel like a hundred-pound weight.

Women are to be valued for so much more than their sexuality. We aren’t merely objects of desire.

Compulsive modernization is the insatiable desire to change and grow.

After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those desires to become entrenched in defiance of logic, plausibility, and even the passage of time, as eternal as polished marble.

All things are in the intended endpoint, and this mode of being is called will or desire.