Desire Quotes - Page 89

I fundamentally believe that people have a genuine desire to be positively engaged in the world around them.

The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.

When we must pay the true price for the depletion of nature’s gifts, materials will become more precious to us, and economic logic will reinforce, and not contradict, our heart’s desire to treat the world with reverence and, when we receive nature’s gifts, to use them well.

What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.

The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God.

Love is desire for knowledge.

What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.

I am fully and intensely aware that plants are conscious of love and respond to it as they do to nothing else.

Desires collide; the wish to eat bumping up against the wish to be thin, the desire to indulge conflicting with the injunction to restrain. Small wonder food makes a woman nervous.

All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.

Grace overwhelms us with God's love, and as a result our heart resonates with the desires of God: His purposes become our own.

GOD will not permit that a soul which desires to be devoted entirely to Him should take other pleasures than with Him: that is more than reasonable.

The problem is the way we let our desires stand in the way of our enjoyment of what we already have.

There's a wall between you and what you want and you got to leap it.

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

It was also important for me to have a burning desire to achieve something worthwhile on that instrument, and I devoted many many many hours with little or no compensation to perfecting whatever I could, because I loved it so much.

My desire to get here [Parliament] was like miners'coal dust, it was under my fingers and I couldn't scrub it out.

I wondered if I was just the sum of my brain scan, little dots clustered in my frontal lobe. Is that where the poems came from? The desire to destroy myself? This last depression had scared me. It had come on so quickly, not like the gradual woolgathering in my brain I had known before.

God desires that we become spiritually healthy enough through faith to have a conscience that rightly interprets the work of the Holy Spirit.

I don't have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don't have a master plan in that way.

The creator does not create only for the pleasure of creating but . . . he also desires to subdue other minds.

Deep down, we remain human, very human and have all the desires to love and be loved by one person.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality.

Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations.