Desire Quotes - Page 49

If you distill the essence of everything, what life is about, every single one of us is given a short moment in time on this planet, and we all have one universal need and desire, and that is to be loved and to love.

I have a burning desire to see what things look like photographed by me.

The desire for economic prosperity is itself not culturally determined but almost universally shared

The man whose nature is such that by one path alone his chief desire will reach consummation will try to find it on that path, whatever it may be, and whatever the world thinks of it; and if he does not, he is contemptible.

Each one should realize there is nothing in (us) which denies that which (we) desire.

Idols aren't stone statues. They are thoughts, desires, and longings that we worship in the place of the true God

You are undoubtedly acquainted with my Reputation, and as for my Penmanship it must speak for itself; this is to desire your Approbation to keep a public school.

I assure you that it is our desire and intention to keep the doors of consultation always and fully open. There must never be a final word between friends.

I wonder if those experts who tell us that our sexual appetite is the strongest know what real thirst feels like; I can imagine the desire for water driving someone to commit a crime to which sexual desire could never drive them.

It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.

What you intuitively desire, that is possible to you.

Our desire is not only to SEE glory, but to participate in the glory we see.

If our deepest desires cannot be satisfied in this world, then we must have been made for another world.

I have always believed that anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, can make anything he wants to make of himself.

A garden is a place for shaping a little world of your own according to your heart's desire.

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Desire is the creator; desire is the destroyer.

Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.

[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it

The desire to serve the common good must without fail be a requisite of the soul, a necessity for personal happiness; if it issuesnot from there, but from theoretical or other considerations, it is not at all the same thing.

It's so much better to desire than to have.... The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen - that's the most exalting.

Besides the fear of ending up with the totally wrong person, the first time between two persons is underscored by two things: desire and awkwardness. The awkwardness of the first time when two individuals touch each other is never lost on the young...or the old.

If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.

It is better to desire than to enjoy, to love than to be loved.

Prayer is naught but a rising desire of the heart into God by withdrawing of the heart from all earthly thoughts.