Top 67 Desires To Live Quotes
#1. When man desires to live as long as a tree, his diet will be fruit.
Brigham Young
#2. Much of a poet's experience takes place in imagination only; the life he tells is oftenest the life that he strongly desires to live, and the power, the purity and height of his utterance may not seldom be the greater because experience here uses the voices of desire.
George Edward Woodberry
#3. Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
Jonathan Swift
#4. Anyone, then, who desires to live chastely in Christ Jesus, must flee not only the mouse of lust, but even from its very scent.
Anthony Of Padua
#5. His strength was restored and, with it, all his desires to live; he went out, began living again, and died a second time for himself.
Marcel Proust
#6. Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
Abraham Lincoln
#7. Don't become a puppet to other peoples desires, live and create your life as you intend it to be.
Steven Redhead
#9. To hope is to gamble. It's to bet on your futures, on your desires, on the possibility that an open heart and uncertainty is better than gloom and safety. To hope is dangerous, and yet it is the opposite of fear, for to live is to risk.
Rebecca Solnit
#10. I feel like making the mistakes I always wanted to make, but never had the courage to ... I can make new friends and teach them how to be crazy too in order to be wise. I'll tell them not to follow the manuals of good behaviour but to discover their own lives, desires, adventures and to live
Paulo Coelho
#11. Just as order gave life and beauty to the earth when it was dark and void, so it does to us. Obedience helps us develop the full potential Heavenly Father desires for us in becoming celestial beings worthy some day to live in His presence.
James E. Faust
#12. Devotion to your goal makes you live a clean and orderly life , given to search for truthand to helping people, and realization makes noble virtue easy and spontaneous, by removing for good the obstacles in the shape of desires and fears and wrong ideas .
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#13. I would rather live a joyful simple life, doing what I love, than to be unhappy and rich.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#15. Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and content; but nature compels him to leave ease ... and throw himself into roils and labors.
Immanuel Kant
#16. Have the STRENGTH to say "no" to the status quo.
Have the WILL to listen to the deepest desires of your heart.
Have the COURAGE to ACT on and live out your intent.
Richie Norton
#17. No one can desire to be blessed, to act well and to live well, unless at the same time he desires to be, to act, and to live, that is, to actually exist.
Aleksandar Hemon
#18. Learn to live without self-concern. For this you must know your own true being as indomitable, fearless, ever victorious. Once you know with absolute certainty that nothing can trouble you, you come to disregard your desires and fears, concepts and ideas and live by truth alone.
Nisargadatta Maharaj
#19. In a word a contented Christian, being sweetly captivated under the authority of the Word, desires to be wholly at God's disposal and is willing to live in that sphere and climate where God has set him.
Thomas Watson
#20. There appears to exist a greater desire to live long than to live well! Measure by man's desires, he cannot live long enough; measure by his good deeds, and he has not lived long enough; measure by his evil deeds, and he has lived too long.
Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann
#21. The secret to global investing is gaining an insight into the hopes and desires of the people who live and work in the countries you invest in.
Mark Mobius
#22. This universe has enough for everyone, we don't need to snatch possessions or damage other people's lives in order to fulfil our desires.
Hina Hashmi
#23. Take care of yourself,forgive and forget the past and live the future you seek to see, listen to and pay attention to your next breath,go after the desires of your heart with all your passion and intellect,and above all live the that you want to lead.
K.J. Kilton
#24. The longer I live, the more I have come to value the gift of eloquence. Every American youth, if he desires for any purpose to get influence over his countrymen in an honorable way, will seek to become a good public speaker.
George Frisbie Hoar
#25. You cannot live with expectations because life has no obligation to fulfill your desires. You can live with an open heart, but you cannot live with expectations. The more expectations you have, the more frustrated you will be.
Rajneesh
#26. Which relationship would you try harder to keep; one that allows you to be yourself and enjoy the things you like, or one where you have to hide your desires and live in fear? When
Benjamin Burns
#27. In order to be effective decision makers and to live satisfying and contented lives, people need to be aware of their goals, desires, and purposes and need to be able to evaluate or assess the extent to which they are heading in the direction specified by their inner standards.
Timothy Carey
#28. Everyone endeavors as much as possible to make others love what he loves, and to hate what he hates ... This effort to make everyone approve what we love or hate is in truth ambition, and so we see that each person by nature desires that other persons should live according to his way of thinking ...
Baruch Spinoza
#29. All enjoyment is dependent upon the frailty of human life and human desires ... if we were to have all we want and to live forever, all enjoyment would be gone.
Ellen Swallow Richards
#30. There's something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live.
Andrew Pyper
#31. I can make whatever choices I want in my life, and I will live with the consequences of those choices. But if I want to live a life close to my deepest desires, I have to risk knowing who I really am and have always been. Knowing this, then I can choose.
Oriah Mountain Dreamer
#32. The former breathes only peace and liberty; he desires only to live and be free from labor; even the ataraxia of the Stoic falls far short of his profound indifference to every other object.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#33. But I must never forget how blessed I have been. God has given me gifts and happiness, beyond any of my simple desires. My deepest desire now is to simply live ... So with hope and determination, I'd hold on and go on.
Farrah Fawcett
#34. It is only by frequent deaths of ourselves and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully.
Mother Teresa
#35. Indeed, if to be in love is not to be able to live without possessing that person one desires, to sacrifice to her one's time, one's pleasures, one's life, then I am really in love.
Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
#36. You don't come to live here unless the delusion of a reality shaped around your own desires isn't a strong aspect of your personality. A reality shaped around your own desires - there is something sociopathic in that ambition.
Zadie Smith
#37. Felix had gone to live in a lotus land of his imagination. Where what is desired is dreamed of as already happened, where obstacles dissolve under the weight of desire, and where reality has vanished entirely.
Iain Pears
#38. We think we have many desires, but in fact we have only one. What is it?" "To live," said Camilla. "To live forever,
Donna Tartt
#39. We live in a world of breathtaking material plenty. That has freed hundreds of millions of people from day-to-day struggles and liberated us to pursue more significant desires: purpose, transcendence, and spiritual fulfillment.
Daniel H. Pink
#40. Oh beloved,
I want to live in your love,
to feel the joy of life,
to see the beauty of desires,
to enjoy the song of heart,
to dance with you, my love.
Debasish Mridha
#41. Waiting for salvation, his faith transcends the dread of the moment; the desires of the oppressed will be sharpened by the courage to be and the will to live.20
Samuel Terrien
#42. I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.
Charles Spurgeon
#43. There is nothing more powerful than this moment your living, now, more powerful than your convictions and truths, spend time with what your heart desires and souls screams for. Life ends a day before we know it, it's so important to chase everything that matters to you.
Nikki Rowe
#44. Self-realization: No ego, no desires, no weight problems, no tax forms, no death to die, no life to live.
Frederick Lenz
#45. Delight yourself in the Lord.
He shall give you all the desires of your heart.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#46. I believe sex is a life force and I try to write about it as straightforwardly as I can. I try to let characters live within their desires and addictions, because most people are works in progress.
Maureen Gibbon
#47. The first sin was rebellion, idolatry, treason, and pride, all rolled into a single bite. Both Adam and Eve made a conscious choice to rebel against their Creator and live on their own terms. And we imitate their decision every time we choose our desires over God's.
Francis Chan
#48. Women live their lives secretly waiting for their lives to become movies. We act like men are the ones shallow enough to desire an unending stream of beautiful women but really, if a charismatic narcissist beautiful bad boy man actually desires us, seems to choose us, we go to pieces.
Lidia Yuknavitch
#49. Men live by rules they've made for themselves. And among those rules is one specifying that women are merely commodities for men to possess. A daughter belongs to her father, a wife to her husband. A woman's own desires present obstacles for men and are best ignored.
Natsuo Kirino
#50. I think women are just as gifted when it comes to science as men are. But I think their wishes and desires are different and this is also shaped by the society in which they live.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
#51. You can get what you want.
You have to passionately seek the life you desire.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#52. Oh, merciless freedom, you continue to overwhelm me! You demand that I challenge myself and feel ashamed, and yet continue to feel so outrageously proud to live a life full of my desires.
Nina George
#53. It is trifling to believe in what you do or in what others do. You should avoid simulacra and even "realities"; you should take up a position external to everything and everyone, drive off or grind down your appetites, live, according to a Hindu adage, with as few desires as a "solitary elephant.
Emil Cioran
#54. We live alone in our cluttered psyches, possessed by our entrenched beliefs, our fatuous desires, our endless contradictions - and like it or not we have to put up with this in one another.
A.S.A Harrison
#55. If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live?
Jackie Chan
#56. He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force; whose movements to action are not impeded, whose desires attain their purpose, and who does not fall into that which he would avoid.
Epictetus
#57. Higgins: I'm an ordinary man, who desires nothing more than just an ordinary chance, to live exactly as he likes, and do precisely what he wants. An average man am I, of no eccentric whim, Who likes to live his life, free of strife Doing whatever he thinks is best for him, Well, just an ordinary man
Rex Harrison
#58. Were every man to live according to his desires alone, the world would descend into chaos
Sherry Jones
#59. If you live in the city, it is necessary to get out of it on weekends. Then you will realize that most of the thoughts and desires you have are not yours. You will see what is you.
Frederick Lenz
#60. This was the advantage of desire. Desire focused the mind. It eliminated extraneous thought. The greater the desire, the less the burden of the mind. She would like to live her life this way. Perhaps it was how to survive intact. Live to satisfy her desires. Desire only what she could have.
Alexander Maksik
#61. And if beauty is terror," said Julian, "then what is desire? We think we have many desires, but in fact we have only one. What is it?"
"To live," said Camilla.
"To live forever," said Bunny, chin cupped in palm.
Donna Tartt
#62. In the world of football and of sport in general there is still a taboo around homosexuality. Everyone ought to live freely with themselves, their desires and their sentiments. We must all work for a sporting culture that respects the individual in every manifestation of his truth and freedom.
Cesare Prandelli
#63. The theory of the method of knowing which is advanced in these pages may be termed pragmatic ... Only that which has been organized into our disposition so as to enable us to adapt the environment to our needs and adapt our aims and desires to the situation in which we live is really knowledge.
John Dewey
#64. Life is what you make it, taking chances based upon your intuition will give you the potential to live life to the full, bringing all your desires to life.
Steven Redhead
#65. Here it is: if you are God's child, the life force that energizes your thoughts, desires, words, and actions is no longer you; it's Christ! God didn't just forgive you. No, he has come to live inside of you so you will have the power to desire and do what he calls you to do.
Paul David Tripp
#66. To live in joy and fully manifest our true potential, we must let go of our desires and attachment to the past and the future and be excited about living in the unknown.
Mada Eliza Dalian
#67. Our stories become self-fulfilling; we will always live up to the story. So make it a desired one
Malti Bhojwani
