Desire Quotes - Page 72

When it comes to desire, it's not a matter of avoiding desire, but rather learning to discern those desires that are helpful and necessary for your growth - those that serve your soul and help you continue to thrive - from those that do not.

Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood.

We grow like flowers, and bear desire, the odor of the human flowers.

It is my desire, by my presence and with my words, to pay tribute to your tireless work in defending and fostering the inviolability of innocent and defenseless human life from the moment of conception until the moment of natural death.

Spiritual progress is when on becomes free not only of the knowledge which is inevitably from the past, but also from the need to know... and a desire to predict and control.

Live each moment from your own inspiration, not from your desire to look good in the eyes of others.

I would like to ask you a question: how many of you pray to the Holy Spirit every day? Probably few, but we must satisfy this desire of Jesus and pray every day to the Holy Spirit, so that he opens our heart towards Jesus.

To desire the common good and strive towards it is a requirement of justice and charity.

Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.

Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.

the bird sings as if to say that delight is easy, for those who desire it

When you dance, do you feel desire? Do you feel as if you were summoning up a greater energy? When you dance, are there moments when you cease to be yourself?

Life is merely a fraction of a second. An infinitely small amount of time to fulfill our desires, our dreams, our passions.

However absurd it may seem, I do in all seriousness hereby declare that I am animated mainly by philanthropic motives. I desire to do good to my fellow creatures, even to the Cui bonos.

Eroticism is first and foremost a thirst for otherness. And the supernatural is the supreme otherness. This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace, finally what always evades us, what is beyond, but what is always there – the unspoken, the spirit, the soul.

If you want a thing--truly want it, want it so badly that you need it as you need air to breathe, then unless you die, you will have it. Why not? It has you. There is no escape. What a cruel and terrible thing escape would be if escape were possible

It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion.

Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, I have no desire to make my own toxins.

There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart’s Desire.

Out of fear, out of the desire for approval, out of the misguided notions of duty, people surrender themselves-their convictions and their aspirations-every day. There is nothing noble about it. It takes far more courage to fight for your values than to relinquish them.

Taking possession of your positive self will put you on the success beam that you may ride triumphantly to whatever heights of achievement you desire.

Willpower and desire, when properly combined, make an irresistible pair.

I'm ready to forgive him for the desire to be a king, but not for wanting to have 23 million court jesters.

I desire to have a dialogue that's positive, and communicative and moves forward, and is about something real, not just consumption.

Thus when we fondly flatter our desires, Our best conceits do prove the greatest liars.