Desires Quotes - Page 2

When you give up your desires for the cause of making God known, revealing Him to your nation, you will surely be rewarded

Sunday Adelaja

Throughout the life we keep asking for something or other from God but often forget that he has already given us the best thing at our birth - A beautiful Life.

Mishra Ankit

One thing I am sure of is that when a long-standing desire gets fulfilled, it is certainly a moment of happiness but it may not lead us to eternal happiness, which lies in our heart, mind and thoughts.

Balroop Singh

Frogs, ducks, rhinos, octopuses – whatever you desire. The world will be built new for you every morning. If you stay here, you can have whatever you want.’ Coraline sighed. ‘You really don’t understand, do you?’ she said. ‘I don’t want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted? Just like that, and it didn’t mean anything. What then?

Neil Gaiman

The demarcation between a positive and a negative desire or action is not whether it gives you a immediate feeling of satisfaction but whether it ultimately results in positive or negative consequences

Dalai Lama XIV

The dead praetor raised his sword. ''Our desires reveal us. They show us for who we really are. Someone has come come for you, Jason Grace.

Rick Riordan

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

Take notice of those intuitive whispers from the heart, they represent your true desires.

Steven Redhead

Get in touch with your intuitive and creative powers, bring your desires to life in order to create a life of bliss.

Steven Redhead

Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.

W Somerset Maugham

This is why it's good manners to give gifts in wrappers: so that, for a moment, that beast in all of us that makes us feel alive and keeps us from becoming angels can be satisfied. While a gift is in a wrapper, it can be anything, even that one indescribable thing that will make us happy enough to die in peace.

Dexter Palmer

The real distinction between being great and being less great seems to be the extent to which we are willing to be pushed along by our own desires.

Melanie Brown

I like desires like childrenand their playsthat tease me now and then intoknowing life.

Suman Pokhrel

If you ignore what a man desires, and you deny the very source of his power.

Walter Lippmann

So as long as you have not attained to desirelessness, as long as you have not renounced desires completely, you will go on taking births and wandering in different bodies. And howsoever different the forms of the body may be, their basic condition is always the same. The ills of the body are the same, regardless whether it’s a bird’s body or man’s. There is no difference in their miseries, because the fundamental misery is only one: the soul becoming confined in the body, the entering of the soul into the prison of body. A prison after all is a prison; it makes no difference whether its walls are circular or angular no matter what you think.

Osho

As humans we are inclined to feel that life must have a point. We have plans and aspirations and desires. We want to take constant advantage of all the intoxicating existence we've been endowed with. But what's life to a cell? Yet it's impulse to exist, to be, is every bit as strong as ours - perhaps even stronger. Life just wants to be.

Bill Bryson

Jean's desires, like those of all men in love, were concentrated on the impossible.

Marcel Proust

One thing that gives meaning to our thinking, drive our understanding, and determines what makes us happy or unhappy is the very thing we seek to have, and we yearn for to be happy and feel alright. Aside that thing, life, the understanding of life, and how life should be lived is different all together.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Never do what the devil provokes you to do

Sunday Adelaja

As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.

Georgette Heyer

...and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.

Donald Miller

You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires.

Tom Stoppard

Even the most pragmatic person fell victim at times to a longing for something other.

Kate Morton

To want is to have a weakness.

Margaret Atwood

Only God is capable of telling us what our rights and needs are. You have to surrender that right to Him.

Joni Eareckson Tada

I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?

Neil Gaiman

For dreams, too, are ghosts, desires chased in sleep, gone by morning.

Libba Bray

Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices telling us what we require to be satisfied, voices that may drown out the faint sounds emitted by our souls and distract us from the careful, arduous task of accurately naming our priorities.

Alain de Botton

The subjects range from the pastoral (sniffing of the butt of a melon to tell if it's ripe. and almost romantically lush descriptions of lightening storms sweeping across fields on summer nights) to elaborations on the value of man's having a life of his own, apart from whatever life he has with his family, a private life that no one knows anything about, "a place he can be himself without concern of disappointment or rejection".

A.M. Homes

Life is not what you wish it to be , rather it’s what you make it.

Steven Redhead

You will find what you look for.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You can posses what you desire.

Lailah Gifty Akita

All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allow

Toni Morrison

I AM FREE and all that I desire is lining up to meet me.

Sanjo Jendayi

Oh, those grumblers! They all take principles as motives and dare not follow their desires.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I grinned. “So you are human after all.” I touched his chest, feeling him breathe hard in and out. “I always thought you were made of steel, you know,” I said.“Superman?” Nat arched his eyebrows.“No, the Tin Man,” I answered back. I settled my head against his chest, turning my ear to listen to his heartbeat. “I sometimes wondered if you had a heart.” - Summer, Perfect Summer

Kailin Gow

Angel dust blown a sunder,Nestling on the edge of unchartered dreams,Filtering the dileneation between ones desires & needs.

Truth Devour

It's good to dream. We can't out-give God. We can't out-love him, and we can't out-dream him.

Stasi Eldredge

...said Finn...“Only remember, Clare. In a dream, what you want will come out, one way or the other. ”“So . . . So I should be careful about what I want, then, right?”“No, you can’t be careful with what you want. Wanting isn’t a pet who stays at your heels; it’s a wild animal. You must become friendly with it. It will make an offer, and you will respond. Converse with what you want that way.”“So what should I try to want? What should I look for?”“Never look for what you should want and desire, but what you do want and desire. You should know that from your poetry. It is the only way to 'make' true. What you desire will appear, no matter how you try to erase or recolor it.”“All right,” said Clare. She turned her back on the ocean and the fire, and began to walk toward the dunes.

Katherine Catmull

With him, I've become like putty- rendered powerless by his magnificence- and his to mold into whatever he desires.

Giorge Leedy

If you are noticing your desires are not coming to fruition, it is time to dive into the unconscious world to discover what other belief may be stronger.

Miranda J. Barrett

You have immense potential to achieve what you desire.

Steven Redhead

Most of the time reason for unhappiness is, desiring for the things which are far from our expectations.

Sriveena Dhagavkar

Most of the times reason for unhappiness is, desiring for the things which are far from our expectations.

Sriveena Dhagavkar

Most of the times, reason for unhappiness is desiring for the things which are far from fulfilling our expectations.

Sriveena Dhagavkar

It became clear that Keisha Blake could not start something without finishing it. If she climbed onto the boundary wall of Caldwell, she was compelled to walk the entire wall, no matter the obstructions in her path (beer cans, branches). This compulsion, applied to other fields, manifested itself as "intelligence." Every unknown word sent her to a dictionary--in search of something like "completion"--and every book led to another book, a process that, of course, could never be completed. This route through early life gave her no small portion of joy, and, indeed, it seemed at first that her desires and her capacities were basically aligned. She wanted to read things--could not resist wanting to read things--and reading was easily done, and relatively inexpensive. On the other hand, that she should receive any praise for such reflexive habits baffled the girl, for she knew herself to be fantastically stupid about many things. Wasn't it possible that what others mistook for intelligence was in fact only a sort of mutation of the will?

Zadie Smith

It does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants

Louisa May Alcott

Some people want what they are not willing to give.

Brenda Johnson Padgitt

Those that much covet are with gain so fond,For what they have not, that which they possessThey scatter and unloose it from their bond,And so, by hoping more, they have but less;Or, gaining more, the profit of excessIs but to surfeit, and such griefs sustain,That they prove bankrupt in this poor-rich gain.

William Shakespeare

There is a difference between what you want, and what you need.

Abhijit Naskar

Sometimes we have to meet people where they are, Ollie. Honor their desires, regardless of out own.

Tess Hilmo

Desire is alcoholic, desire is the greatest drug possible. Marijuana is nothing, lsd is nothing. Desire is the greatest lsd possible – the ultimate in drugs.What is the nature of desire? When you desire, what happens? When you desire, you are creating an illusion in the mind; when you desire, you have already moved from here. Now you are not here, you are absent from here, because the mind is creating a dream. This absentness is your drunkenness. Be present!

Osho

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Albert Camus

Change is the most beneficial power available to you, simply change the things you don't like, replacing them with your true desires.

Steven Redhead

To fight against one's desires is the greatest of all fights.

Hazrat Ali R.A

Ah, and then her beautiful face…actually, the level and angle that she was holding the umbrella, the whole time as she passed within Suresh’s view, only allowed him to see the bottom of her chin at most. Still, with a body as beautiful as hers, Suresh was quite certain that her face would be nothing less than positively stunning!

Andrew James Pritchard

Challenges come our way when we least expect them; our insecurities, desires, balance, & conscience are tested in the process.

April Mae Monterrosa

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else.

Peyton C. March

Your wishes and desires make clear who you are.

M.F. Moonzajer

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