Desire Quotes - Page 80

The desire for truth is the highest of all desires, yet, it is still a desire. All desires must be given up for the real to be.....When all search ceases, it is the Supreme State.

Genius never desires what does not exist.

While just looking, we are always hunting among objects, looking for what we desire or fear, endeavoring to recognize some pattern; on the other hand, objects themselves always "stare back," vie for our attention, throw at us their lures and endeavor to entrap us.

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

Happiness does not depend on the size or content of a goal, but on the strength of the desire to have it.

I don't know if anyone has noticed but I only ever write about one thing: being alone. The fear of being alone, the desire to not be alone, the attempts we make to find our person, to keep our person, to convince our person to not leave us alone, the joy of being with our person and thus no longer alone, the devastation of being left alone. The need to hear the words: You are not alone.

Such a muddy line between the things you want/And the things you have to do.

As I learn to love myself, I recieve the love I desire from others.

In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

All envy is proportionate to desire.

The desire for story is very, very deep in human beings. We are the only creature in the world that does this; we are the only creature that tells stories, and sometimes those are true stories and sometimes those are made up stories. Then there are the larger stories, the grand narratives that we live in, which are things like nation and family and clan and so on. Those stories are considered to be treated reverentially. They need to be part of the way in which we conduct the discourse of our lives and to prevent people from doing something very damaging to human nature.

It is a shame for a man to desire honor because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his own virtue.

If I want only pure water, what does it matter to me whether it be brought in a vase of gold or of glass? What is it to me whether the will of God be presented to me in tribulation or consolation, since I desire and seek only the Divine will?

Love is the sun, desire - only flash.

Loosen the bonds of avarice from your hands and neck.

Your radiance shines in every atom of creation yet our petty desires keep it hidden.

The whole story of creation, incarnation, and our incorporation into the fellowship of Christ's body tells us that God desires us, as if we were God, as if we were that unconditional response to God's giving that God's self makes in the life of the Trinity. We are created so that we may be caught up in this, so that we may grow into the wholehearted love of God by learning that God loves us as God loves God.

All desire but that of doing God's holy will has been extinguished in me.

Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us.

I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.

The desires of the heart...are as crooked as a corkscrew.

It is a sure mark of grace to desire more.

Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly.

It sometimes seems that we have only to love a thing greatly to get it.