Top 100 Desire You Quotes
#1. Don't be 'practical' in politics. To be practical in that sense means that you have schooled yourself to think along the lines, and in the grooves that those who rob you would desire you to think.
James Connolly
#2. By giving love to others you are placing yourself in the endless flow of love you desire. You become the source and force of love.
Annette Vaillancourt
#3. What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.
Norman Vincent Peale
#4. Love isn't just wanting another person the way you want to own an object you see in a store. That's just desire. You want to have it around, take it home and set it up somewhere in the apartment like a lamp.
Philip K. Dick
#5. The chief thing is desire. You've really got to want to do it, you've really got to want to tell that story. And you have to be able to set goals for yourself to get it done.
F. Paul Wilson
#6. Bombing teaches you how badly you want to become a comedian. Because unless it's a burning desire, you'll quit when the consistent bombing becomes too much to take.
Franklyn Ajaye
#7. When you find your heart's desire, you'll have the key to unlocking your potential in every other part of your life.
Brian Tracy
#8. Desire
I desire you
more than food
and drink
My body
my senses
my mind
hunger for your taste
I can sense your presence
in my heart
although you belong
to all the world
I wait
with silent passion
for one gesture
one glance
from you
Rumi
#10. The universe is infinite, so there is room for everyone, for every belief, for every custom, and for every desire. You are in competition with no one but yourself.
Stephen Richards
#11. Do not desire, for what you desire you get, and with it comes terrible bondage. It is nothing but bringing "noses on us," as in the case of the man who had three boons to ask. We never get freedom until we are self-contained. "Self is the Saviour of self, none else."
Swami Vivekananda
#12. It is possible at any age to discover a lifelong desire you never knew you had.
Robert Breault
#13. In order to acquire anything in the physical universe, you have to relinquish your attachment to it. This doesn't mean you give up your intention to create your desire ... and you don't give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the result.
Deepak Chopra
#15. One interesting thing about greed is that although the underlying motive is to seek satisfaction, the irony is that even after obtaining the object of your desire you are still not satisfied. The true antidote of greed is contentment.
Dalai Lama
#16. Nothing makes you feel more naked than someone identifying a desire you never knew you possessed.
Jeff Zentner
#17. The entire life of a good Christian is in fact an exercise of holy desire. You do not yet see what you long for, but the very act of desiring prepares you, so that when he comes you may see and be utterly satisfied.
Saint Augustine
#18. I made you, dear, and all I make is perfect. Please come close, for I desire you.
Teresa Of Avila
#19. Your success depends on how much fire of desire you have AND how much fuel of passion you feed it.
Vinita Kinra
#20. For you see this scripture fulfilled this day and therefore I desire you as you tender the Lord and the church and commonwealth to consider and look what you do.
Anne Hutchinson
#21. I was just lying there, swimming in my own shame and guilt, when this still small voice whispered into the depths of my soul: I love you. I desire you. I delight in you. I saw you were going to that before I went to the cross, and I still went.
Jefferson Bethke
#22. I think if you don't have it [desire], you're not going to be pushed into anything. You've got to want to do something.
Creed Bratton
#23. When I desire you a part of me is gone...
Anne Carson
#24. By all the gods, I desire you, but you must know that you have my love. It's given, sieva. Wholly entrusted to you. Have a care with it.
Kresley Cole
#25. You speak good words, child, but sometimes what lies within is much darker. The line between justice and revenge is then. Justice is order; revenge is chaos. If revenge is your innermost desire, you will be destroyed upon entering into the hall
Amira Aly
#27. This is a very important practice. Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself.
When you are carried away with your worries, fears, cravings, anger, and desire, you run away from yourself and you lose yourself.
The practice is always to go back to oneself.
Nhat Hanh
#28. So the desire you have, that itch that you have to be whatever it is you want to be ... that itch, that desire for good is God's proof to you sent already to indicate that it's yours. You already have it. Claim it.
Denzel Washington
#29. You don't give up the intention, and you don't give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the results.
Deepak Chopra
#30. It is all your desires that you see, when you think. But when your mind is quiet, without desire, you are complete and as wonderful as you have always been.
H.W.L. Poonja
#31. Each of us has immense potential to achieve what we desire, unless you enliven and enlighten your life with inspiration, bring your dreams into reality through the power of desire you will never shine as bright as your potential.
Steven Redhead
#32. To get what your heart desire, you must loose something you hold dear. That is the way of things in this world.
Shienny M.S.
#33. I desire you in friendship, and I will one way or other make you amends.
William Shakespeare
#34. Actually, you are destined to reach the point where you realise that through your own desire you can consciously create your successive destinies
Neville Goddard
#35. If you take yourself too seriously, you're dead in the water. I think the key to all is to have a laugh, have fun, and express every desire you had, as a kid.
Chris Vance
#37. Desire. You can't fight that; you can only fight yourself after it hits you ...
Vee Hoffman
#38. Katherine, how quickly you forget that I never give up when I want something. And right now, I've decided what I want is you. I want you next to me twenty-four-seven, at least until I've sated the desire you left me with. Then, I may actually let you sleep. -Joseph
Melody Anne
#39. I've wanted you from the moment we met, and if you think sitting next to me in your bra doesn't overwhelm me with desire, you're very wrong. I just don't force myself where I'm not invited. (Bones)
Jeaniene Frost
#40. Let your faith in the Universe deepen, purify and strengthen most on your troublesome, dark days. If you close your eyes in prayer, surrendering every problem and desire, you will find a way out without fail.
Pooja Ruprell
#41. Free from passion and desire, you have stripped the thorns from the stem.
Gautama Buddha
#42. Get a woman to smile, and she will like you; get her to laugh, and she will desire you; get her to blush, and she will court you; get her to melt, and she will marry you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#43. To converse with You, O King of glory, no third person is needed, You are always ready in the Sacrament of the Altar to give audience to all. All who desire You always find You there, and converse with You face to face
Teresa Of Avila
#44. Free from desire, you realize the mystery
caught in the desire, you see only the manifestations.
Lao-Tzu
#45. I desire you as deeply as I ever have, but I understand that the fervor of a desire is irrelevant to its justice.
Scott Lynch
#46. Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
George Bernard Shaw
#47. It is as if producing a creative work tears a piece from your soul. When it is ripped completely free of you, the wound must bleed for a while. How similar it is to letting go of a dream, your hope, or your heart's desire. You must open up and let it drain.
Lynn Cullen
#48. And thus I take my leave of the world and of you all, and I heartily desire you all to pray for me.
Anne Boleyn
#49. You know what happens to sex in marriage? Instead of inviting desire, you monitor it. Especially men: You let her sleep late, you take the kids to the park, and all that time you're thinking, "Tonight I'll get some." That doesn't work.
Esther Perel
#50. A goal is not the same as a desire, and this is an important distinction to make. You can have a desire you don't intend to act on. But you can't have a goal you don't intend to act on.
Old Tom Morris
#51. I'm the thing you most desire, you represent the thing I least desire, death. It's just the opposite of love.
Ray Bradbury
#52. That which you fix your heart to, believing with all your desire you will get, you will.
Jeff Wheeler
#53. Those of us committed to a queer life know that forms of recognition are either precariously conditional, you have to be the right kind of queer by depositing your hope for happiness in the right places (even with perverse desire you can have straight aspirations), or it is simply not given.
Sara Ahmed
#54. To Moses We gave the Book and sent a succession of messengers after him. We gave Jesus, son of Mary, clear signs and strengthened him with the Holy Spirit. But, whenever a messenger came to you with something which you did not desire, you grew arrogant, calling some liars and slaying others.
Anonymous
#55. A lot of actors work too much. There comes a point where it's hard to mask your basic personality. It's a bit like a relationship. If you're always there, they can't desire you.
Jacqueline Bisset
#56. If you are being swept into some current that is not comfortable, or not in harmony with your desire, you must remember that couldn't happen if you weren't offering a vibration that matched it in some way. If you're vibrating differently from that, you're not having that experience.
Abraham Hicks
#57. If you have to look any further than your own backyard to find your hearts desire, you never really lost it to begin with
Morgan Matson
#59. If your thoughts, feelings and actions are not in harmony of what you desire, you won't materialize it.
Hina Hashmi
#60. Shining with craving, his emerald gaze penetrated her soul. "I desire you so much". His whisper melted her heart. His soft touch set her ablaze.
Chris Lange
#61. You're still going to win with preparation and dedication and plain old desire. If you don't have genuine desire, you won't be dedicated enough to prepare properly.
Bear Bryant
#62. I am not what you call a civilised man! I have done with society entirely, for reasons which I alone have the right of appreciating. I do not, therefore, obey its laws, and I desire you never to allude to them before me again!
Jules Verne
#63. Nothing makes you get down on yourself and worry that you're undesirable like rejection, so having someone desirable desire you is the ultimate antidote.
Daria Snadowsky
#64. I can't help but desire you. I want to taste you again. This feeling I have for you is more than intense " he said roughly. "It is a possessive thing greedy. I look at you Corinne Bishop and all I can think is that you are mine.
Lara Adrian
#65. The arrogance of men never ceases to amaze me. You all think everything has to do with you, and every woman has to desire you.
Robert Jordan
#66. People say "I want peace." If you remove I (ego), and your want (desire), you are left with peace.
Sathya Sai Baba
#67. What you dream, you desire.
What you desire, you pursue.
What you pursue, you possess.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#68. You are mine. I can do what I want with you. I can dress you. Fuck you. Send you away. Loan you to others. You belong to me. And you've finally realized it isn't romantic, it isn't sexy, or fun. It's something no one should want or desire. You're a captive.
Pepper Winters
#69. In order to acheive you must dream, to dream you must desire, to desire you must love.
Robert Gordon
#70. If you align your vibrations and frequencies with those things you desire, you will acquire them.
Stephen Richards
#71. I will never not want you, understand? I love you. I adore you. I admire you. I desire you. You are my heart. My blood, my bones. My everything.
Sarah Mayberry
#72. Marriage is the flimsiest weapon against desire. You may as well take a pop-gun to a python.
Jeanette Winterson
#74. On Teasing : Teach your teen-age daughters not to tease boys into physical desire. You might save their lives.
Marlene Dietrich
#75. I turn you out of doors tenant desire you pay no rent I turn you out of doors all my best rooms are yours the brain and heart depart I turn you out of doors switch off the lights throw water on the fire I turn you out of doors stubborn desire.
Alain Chartier
#76. Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.
Oliver Cromwell
#77. You know all my needs and wants, you know hundreds of small things about me! You also know I am madly falling in love with you, You even know when I am staring at you! You know how much I desire you!
- In Search of a Soulmate} - [author:Swapna Rajput
Swapna Rajput
#78. The quest for enlightenment illustrates the paradox of desire - the fact that you must have desire to be motivated to transcend being ruled by desire.
Paul O'Brien
#79. You must dare the impossible. With divine grace, it will be possible.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#80. My greatest desire is that you would encounter His presence; and everything about your life would be different.
Karen Wheaton
#82. I was probably 8 years old; my mom let me stay up one night. She's like, 'You have to see this movie.' It was 'A Streetcar Named Desire,' and it was on TV, and it was a big deal. And I saw Marlon Brando, and I was like, 'Oh, my God.' That's where it started.
Mark Ruffalo
#83. You want to eliminate your evil desires in order to reveal your Buddha nature, but where will you throw them away?
Shunryu Suzuki
#84. The word lust [can] mean "selfish desire." ... It is wanting something so badly you will do anything to get it. That is one of the tricks of the devil. It is too high a price to pay.
Billy Graham
#85. Desire happiness, aspire to gratitude, long for health, crave compassion, seek satisfaction, lust after God, however & whatever you perceive God to be, want to love yourself, others & everything around you more and more each day
Peter McWilliams
#87. Christians need never be sick, any more than they need to be sinful. It is always God's desire to heal you.
T.L. Osborn
#88. Being rich means seeing all that's ugly and having the arrogance to think you can change things. All you have to do is pay for it.
Gregoire Delacourt
#89. I have found that there are two ways of dealing with men. Either you treat them with respect, or you kill them. Anything in between merely breeds resentment and the desire for revenge.
Paul Kearney
#90. If, like the prophet Noah, you have patience in the distress of the flood, Calamity turns aside, and the desire of a thousand years comes forth.
Hafez
#92. And for yourself, may the gods grant you your heart's desire, a husband and a home, and the blessing of a harmonious life. For nothing is greater or finer than this, when a man and woman live together with one hear and mind, bringing joy to their friends and grief to their foes.
Homer
#93. If you must chase make certain its with passion so you may reap a worthy reward.
Eyob M. A.
#94. He whispered in the king's ear, "If you ask me, I think you should find a wife for Siddhartha. Once he has a family to occupy him, he will abandon this desire to become a monk." King Suddhodana nodded.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#95. Instead of searching for what you want externally, concentrate on developing mental pictures of your desires. Surround these images with feelings of security, gratitude, and faith; and know that what you've been looking for is on its way to you right now.
Doreen Virtue
#96. You've got to wish for something the whole time when you're seventeen. You've got to, or there's nothing to live for. However impossible you've got to think you want it ... When I couldn't think of a thing I wanted I nearly died.
Charlotte Bingham
#97. A man asked Gautama Buddha, "I want happiness."
Buddha said, "First remove "I," that's Ego, then remove "want," that's Desire.
See now you are left with only "Happiness.
Gautama Buddha
#98. A truly educated man never ceases to learn. He never ceases to grow. I hope you women, as you take upon yourselves the burden of rearing families, will never set aside the desire to acquire knowledge.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#99. Love is active penetration of the other person, in which my desire to know is stilled by union. In the act of fusion I know you, I know myself, I know everybody - and I "know" nothing.
Erich Fromm
#100. Apart from new dreams, opportunities, love and blessings in new places, it's God's most earnest desire to give you a new life.
Jamie Larbi