Quotes about desire
desire poverty wonder
I wonder what it feels like to have no desires left because you have satisfied them all, smothered them with money even before they are born. Is an existence without desire very desirable? And is the poverty of desire better than rank poverty itself? Vikas Swarup
desire fairy-tale tales
You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul? Rudyard Kipling
desire
Wanting is the beginning of getting. Rumer Godden
desire world longing
Our restlessness in this world seems to indicate that we are intended for a better. We have all of us a longing after happiness; and surely the Creator will gratify all the natural desires he has implanted in us. Robert Southey
desire income wealth
It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse. Robert Louis Stevenson
desire world forests
For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudences of the brawling world reach you no more.
desire moments given
Be a function of your values rather than a function of the impulse or desire of any given moment. Stephen Covey
desire saving investment
Always desire to learn something useful Sophocles
desire spiritual-awakening made
You are made in the image of what you desire. Thomas Merton
desire backyards lost
If you [c]annot find your [h]eart's desire in your own backyard, you never lost it to begin with Tony Kushner
desire justified virtue
Desires should never be justified,' Tehol said, wagging a finger. 'All you end up doing is illuminating the hidden reasons by virtue of their obvious absence. Steven Erikson
desire matter opinion
Faith teaches that there is a right and wrong beyond mere opinion or desire. Most importantly, it teaches us that freedom is not an end in itself, that how freedom is exercised matters as much as freedom itself Stephen Harper
desire purpose betrayed
Cripple God, who always desires more than he's able to have, and doesn't always realize this to begin with. Who has built clocks, but not the time that they measure. Has built systems or mechanisms that serve particular purposes, but they too have outgrown these purposes and betrayed them. And has created an infinity that, from being the measure of the power he was supposed to have, turned into the measure of his boundless failure. Stanislaw Lem
desire overcoming
They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always. Pierre Corneille
desire increase fulfillment
Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.
desire
Some women attract desire. Others do not. Philippa Gregory
desire world earth
An authentic faith-which is never comfortable or completely personal-always involves a deep desire to change the world, to transmit values, to leave this earth somehow better than we found it. Pope Francis
desire world looks
The world makes us look towards ourselves, our possessions, our desires.The Gospel invites us to be open to others, to share with the poor.
desire world changing-the-world
An authentic faith always implies a deep desire to change the world.
desire trying way
The truth is that you cannot attain God if you have even a trace of desire. Subtle is the way of dharma. If you are trying to thread a needle, you will not succeed if the thread has even a slight fiber sticking out. Ramakrishna
desire contentment mindfulness
Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside. Ramana Maharshi
desire want loser
All my life I have been haunted by the obsession that to desire a thing or to love a thing intensely is to place yourself in a vulnerable position, to be a possible, if not a probable, loser of what you most want. Let's leave it like that. Tennessee Williams
desire battle ongoing
Whether you realize it or not, your ongoing battle with unbelief drives all your sinful thoughts, emotions, desires, and actions. James Macdonald
desire doe genius
Genius never desires what does not exist. Soren Kierkegaard
desire looks idiot
We have no desire to make anybody look like a blithering idiot, but we do love it when they do. Stephen Colbert
desire action praise
Desire of praise disposeth to laudable actions. Thomas Hobbes
desire fit capacity
... it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
desire restless driven
Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.
desire progress way
Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.
desire energy
I don't pretend anything anymore. I don't have time, desire or energy to calculate anymore. Thomas Kretschmann
desire slavery states
The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state. Thomas Jefferson
desire height impossible
Impossible desires are the height of unreason. Thomas Chandler Haliburton
desire analysis incredibles
It doesn't take an incredible manner of analysis to reveal that our primary desires are incessantly stimulated to keep us basic consumers. Russell Brand