Desire Quotes - Page 27

Going without a thing enhances the desire to get it.

Entirety exists within me as exuberance in empty longing in the desire to burn with desire.

Action will lead you forward to the success you desire.

I put my head out of my window and see how much the wind’s knife wants to slice it off. On this unseen guillotine, I’ve placed the eyeless head of all my desires.

Freedom is secured not by the fulfillment of one's desires, but by the removal of desire.

To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.

Whoever desires is always poor.

The more you engage in any type of emotion or behavior, the greater your desire for it will become.

When I go after something, I go after it hard. It has always been that way. I don't know. It's in my blood.

You must be able to see yourself, with your inner eye, already in possession of the good you desire.

It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbors, or even our relations.

And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore.

In order to be able to make it, you have to put aside the fear of failing and the desire of succeeding. You have to do these things completely and purely without fear, without desire. Because things that we do without lust of result are the purest actions we shall ever take.

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will never last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.

For it is good to cleave to God, and to put our hopes in the Lord, so that, when we have exchanged this poor life for the kingdom of heaven, we may cry aloud: 'Whom have I in heaven but thee? There is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.' Assuredly, when we have found such wealth in heaven, we may well grieve to have sought after poor passing pleasures here on earth.

What puts you on the road is your desire to enjoy. What brings you home is being in love

Even avatars have to desire to be in God in every moment. And when avatars die, they desire with all their being to be united with God. ….. Look at Ramakrishna. How much he wept and prayed for the Divine Mother.

It is a paradox in the contemporary world that in our desire for peace we must willingly give ourselves to struggle.

There is not a day but sin foils or is foiled, prevails or is prevailed upon. It will always be so while we live in this world. Sin will not spare for one day. There is no safety but in a constant warfare for those who desire deliverance from sin's perplexing rebellion.

Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.

I'm not afraid to play the role of Christian Grey. Because I'm not like him. But I perfectly understand him. I never thought that he was a monster. He is simply woven from desires. As every one of us.

The fear of punishment, the desire of reward, the sense of duty, are all useful arguments, in their way, to persuade people to holiness. But they are all weak and powerless, until a person loves Christ.

You must distinguish between what is urgent and what is important. You could accomplish all of the urgent things that you desire without accomplishing anything that is important.

The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up.