Desire Quotes - Page 6

If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.

To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.

Once a man criticized my desire for knowledge by saying that it was not fitting for a woman to possess learning because there was so little of it. I replied that it was even less fitting for a man to possess ignorance because there was so much of it.

True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them the desire to do right is precisely the same.

Remember how the first world war broke out. It broke out as a result of the desire to redivide the world.

Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.

You must want! You have the right to ask! You must desire.

If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

Whether we like it or not, we have all been born into this world as part of one great human family. Rich or poor, educated or uneducated, belonging to one nation or another, to one religion or another, adhering to this ideology or that, ultimately each of is just a human being like everyone else. We all desire happiness and do not want suffering.

Desire is a bonfire that burns with greater fury, asking for more fuel.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data.

I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever.

THE FIRST STEP in changing the future is Desire, that is, define your objective - know definitely what you want. SECOND: construct an event which you believe you would encounter following the fulfillment of your desire - an event which implies fulfillment of your desire - something which will have the action of Self predominant.

Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.

Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.

Every man if he so desires becomes sculptor of his own brain.

The greatness of our love of God must be tested by the desire we have of suffering for His love.

The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire.

The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.

Can you honestly tell me that your great desire is to be holy? Can you honestly tell me your great desire is to not be like the world, but to be like Jesus Christ? Because if you cannot, you should be afraid. Those who love the world do not have the love of the Father (1 John 2:15).

Only as one is willing to give up his present limitations and identity can he become that which he desires to be.

Justice is the firm and continuous desire to render to everyone that which is his due.

I think it's ultimately inhuman to only see things for their functionality. We want things to be more than that. The desire for beauty is something that's in us, and it's not trivial.

Are not our desires inseparably intertwined with the continuation of life? Even the idea of eliminating desire is fruitless. The desire to eliminate all desire is still itself a desire. How can we find release and peace by replacing one desire with another? Surely we shall find peace not by eliminating desire, but by finding its fulfillment and satisfaction in the One who created it.