Desire Quotes - Page 44

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

Money is a guarantee that we may have what we want in the future. Though we need nothing at the moment it insures the possibility of satisfying a new desire when it arises.

We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.

My preference for clear structures is the result of my desire - perhaps illusory - to keep track of things and maintain my grip on the world.

Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction

It's so important to consider this question: What do I desire?

True love is a lack of desire to check one's smartphone in another's presence.

Success comes from repeated efforts day in and day out. You learn from your mistakes, make adjustments and continue pressing forward until you achieve the results you desire.

Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.

I wonder what it feels like to have no desires left because you have satisfied them all, smothered them with money even before they are born. Is an existence without desire very desirable? And is the poverty of desire better than rank poverty itself?

To the Young Artists of Italy! The cry of rebellion that we launch, linking our ideals with those of the Futurist poets, does not originate in an aesthetic clique. It expresses the violent desire that stirs in the veins of every creative artist today.

I desire the good-will of all, whether hitherto my friends or not.

Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.

Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.

"Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all good things will be added unto you." Follow God and you shall have whatever you desire.

If officers desire to have control over their commands, they must remain habitually with them, industriously attend to their instruction and comfort, and in battle lead them well.

Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).

I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.

Your intent to find a mate sends out 'strands of consciousness' however, composed of desire and intent. Like detectives, these search the world, looking in a completely different way than a physical sleuth. The world is probed with your characteristics in mind, seeking for someone else with characteristics that will best suit your own.

LIFE + DESIRE = MAN; LIFE - DESIRE = GOD.

I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.

Those who desire only the good pleasure of God abide in peace even in the midst of failure, for God has not told us that He requires success of us.

I think that the insane desire one has sometimes to bang and kick grumblers and peevish persons is a Divine instinct.

It's not that I'm a Type-B personality. It's that I'm driven by a passionate, all-consuming desire to take it easy.

I came to mistrust my desire to explode the picture and supercharge it in some way… what is more important is a feeling of strength in reserve – tension beneath calm.