Famous Quotes & Sayings

Therese of Lisieux

Even now I know it: yes, all my hopes will be fulfilled... yes... the Lord will work wonders for me which will surpass infinitely my immeasurable desires.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love.

Seth

If you'd rather be a chooser, enter a market or a transaction where you have something to trade, something of value, something to offer that's difficult to get everywhere else. If all you have is the desire to get picked, that's not sufficient.

Lawrence Durrell

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.

Lawrence Durrell

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

Pema Chodron

Never underestimate the desire to bolt.

Phyllis Bottome

A desire that has never been fulfilled is considerably less acute than one that has been fulfilled and then checked at the source.

Phyllis Bottome

There is no thermometer for wants!

Rabindranath Tagore

The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.

James Cook

Going without a thing enhances the desire to get it.

Jacques Lacan

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

Jacques Maritain

The truth of practical intellect is understood not as conformity to an extramental being but as conformity to a right desire; the end is no longer to know what is, but to bring into existence that which is not yet.

Henepola Gunaratana

You can learn not to want what you want, to recognize desires but not be controlled by them.

Heber J. Grant

If you desire the spirit of God you must keep the commandments of God.

Manny Pacquiao

Human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.

Miles Franklin

the way to wean any one from a desire is not by condemnation of it.

Milan Kundera

I feel a frantic desire to free myself. To start all over again and in another way.

Milarepa

I need nothing. I seek nothing. I desire nothing.

Marcel Proust

It is desire that engenders belief; if we fail as a rule to take this into account, it is because most of the desires that create beliefs end only with out own life.

Marcel Proust

Desire makes everything blossom

Marcel Proust

Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary.

Joni Eareckson Tada

I had to be healed of my desire to be healed.

Jim Calhoun

You can?t predict this thing ... two, three, four all gone. How do you predict these things? The whole idea that No. 1 gets the easy route ... there are no easy routes. Those teams at 16 are really good, and they have incredible desire to win. By the time you get to 8-9, you?re facing really good teams.

Laura Marling

It’s hard to accept yourself as someone you don’t desire / As someone you don’t want to be.

John Vanbrugh

The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.

John Rawls

When the basic structure of society is publicly known to satisfy its principles for an extended period of time, those subject to these arrangements tend to develop a desire to act in accordance with these principles and to do their part in institutions which exemplify them

John Rawls

Properly understood, then, the desire to act justly derives in part from the desire to express most fully what we are or can be, namely free and equal rational beings with the liberty to choose.

James Joyce

I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.

Swami Vivekananda

To the person who desires nothing and does not get entangled in desires, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of beauty and sublimity.

Tony Robbins

Life is the dance between what you desire most, and what you fear most

Martin Scorsese

I have a desire to tell stories. And I'm never quite satisfied.

Meghan O'Rourke

Yet the story of Orpheus, it occurs to me, is not just about the desire of the living to resuscitate the dead but about the ways in which the dead drag us along into their shadowy realm because we cannot let them go. So we follow them into the Underworld, descending, descending, until one day we turn and make our way back.