Desire Quotes - Page 25

It was the slave's continuing desire for recognition that was the motor which propelled history forward, not the idle complacency and unchanging self-identity of the master

Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.

My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.

Give recognition where it is due. Compliments stimulate more effort and desire to improve. Be generous with honest praising.

Animal personalities have always intrigued me, the desire to find out more about them made a reader out of me.

One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.

When we experience our own desire for transformation, we are feeling the universe evolving through us.

Satanism encourages its followers to indulge in their natural desires. Only by doing so can you be a completely satisfied person with no frustrations which can be harmful to yourself and others around you. Therefore, the most simplified description of the Satanic belief is: indulgence instead of abstinence.

There can be no doubt that the knowledge of logic is of considerable practical importance for everyone who desires to think and to infer correctly.

A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.

Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?

Macbeth's deed is done in horror, and without the faintest desire or sense of glory- done, one may almost say, as if it were an appalling duty; the instant it is finished, its futility is revealed to Macbeth as clearly as its vileness had been revealed beforehand

Prayer is the only adequate way to multiply our efforts fast enough to reap the harvest God desires.

If a man be new-born, he will desire the sincere milk of the word.

It is notorious that the desire to live increases as life itself shortens.

Those who would send out thousands of questionnaires asking the unconverted what they would desire most in a worship service should realize that ten thousand unanimous opinions of carnal men do not carry the authority of one jot or tittle of God's Word.

The wonder of Independence is that it encourages open minds and the desire to improve.

It seems to me that the desire to make art produces an ongoing experience of longing, a restlessness sometimes, but not inevitably, played out romantically, or sexually. Always there seems something ahead, the next poem or story, visible, at least, apprehensible, but unreachable. To perceive it at all is to be haunted by it; some sound, some tone, becomes a torment — the poem embodying that sound seems to exist somewhere already finished. It’s like a lighthouse, except that, as one swims towards it, it backs away.

Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.

All men desire to free themselves solely from death; they do not know how to free themselves from life.

Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot; we even severely and haughtily despise others as our inferiors.

Using another as a means of satisfaction and security is not love. Love is never security; love is a state in which there is no desire to be secure; it is a state of vulnerability.

What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked. "A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.

If you desire to see, learn how to act.

We live under threat from painful emotions: anger, desire, pride, jealousy and so on. Therefore we should always be ready to counter these with the appropriate antidote. True practitioners may be recognized by their unfailing mindfulness.