Desire Quotes - Page 55

The World is perfect as it is, including my desire to change it

Stopping before you reach the goal does not make the discouragement go away. All it does is make the discouragement permanent. Instead, keep going, keep making the attempt, until you make that last, fulfilling attempt that brings the success you desire.

The best kind of wealth is to give up inordinate desires.

Who would desire peace should be prepared for war.

The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.

A wish is a desire without energy

We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us.

I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.

The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me

The courage to go deeper is found by letting your desire grow larger than your fear.

When our desires are fulfilled, we never fail to realize the wealth of imagination and the paucity of reality.

You've got some very powerful countries: Poland, the United Kingdom, Sweden and others who have a genuine desire to see the euro zone straighten itself out. It's good for all of us, whether you're in the euro zone or not, to make sure that it doesn't lead to a fracturing.

The intellect alone has an eye for viewing an essence, which it cannot see except in the true Cause, which is the Fount of all desire. Moreover, since all things seek to exist, then in all things there is desire from the Fount-of-desire, wherein being and desire coincide in the Same.

Most people wish for riches, but few people provide the definite plan and burning desire which pave the road to wealth.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

The nature of the leadership spirit is the inherent desire of all mankind to control and regulate both environment and circumstance.

New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.

This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.

Weak thoughts, weak desires: he felt their force.

I’ve always said I didn’t have a Plan B in life. I was in pursuit of my dream from the very beginning. It’s all about desire and passion. At all costs.

I always tell people: Life is the dance between what you desire most and what you fear most. You've got to be able to deal with the threshold of control.

Its avowed purpose is to excite sexual desire, which, I should have thought, is unnecessary in the case of the young, inconvenient in the case of the middle aged, and unseemly in the old.

What inspires me today is a desire to get closer to an understanding of what my artistic capacities are with the hope of organically sharing my gifts with an audience in the most heightened way I possibly can.

It (Tao) is eternally without desire. So, it can be called small. All things return to it, although it does not make itself their ruler. So, it can be called great.

The Tao is infinite, eternal. Why is it eternal? It was never born; thus it can never die. Why is it infinite? It has no desires for itself; thus it is present for all beings. The Master stays behind; that is why she is ahead. She is detached from all things; that is why she is one with them. Because she has let go of herself, she is perfectly fulfilled.