Top 72 Pure Desire Quotes
#1. She was of the Fae. She did not worry over right or wrong. She was a creature of pure desire, much like a child.
Patrick Rothfuss
#2. You will never be able to truly step inside another person, to see the world as he sees it, until you develop the pure desire, the strength of personal character, and the positive Emotional Bank Account, as well as the empathetic listening skills to do it.
Stephen Covey
#3. Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these things, as a child loves jam, but because they think they ought to have them. That is one element which makes the crank.
Rose Macaulay
#4. To one who has led a virtuous life, to sin is the easiest thing in the world. No experience of unpleasant consequences grits that smooth sliding fall, no recollection of disillusionment blurs that pure desire.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
#5. There's only one pure desire and that is to be one with the Divine.
Nirmala Srivastava
#6. The heart's earnest and pure desire is always fulfilled. In my own experience I have often seen this rule verified.
Mahatma Gandhi
#7. The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life.
Ernst Mach
#8. You want this?'
I raised my gaze, gasping at the dark hunger in his expression. My mind blanked. Want his body? How could I not? He was pure temptation.
'I meant this,' he held up my bag, 'but I could easily be persuaded to share anything else my wife might desire.
Kresley Cole
#9. Angelique, my dear child, love is not what heals us. Love is what burns us. And in you the flame burns pure and hot.
Anne Golon
#10. Here was Nietzsche's will to power at work, the pure physical instinct brought on by the desire to survive, to win, to prove myself better, to test myself and not be found wanting.
Peter Gregoire
#11. I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder ... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.
Tanya Tucker
#12. The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite, awakening in him a desire for the pure and, finally, for the supernatural ... The brighter it becomes, the more it loses its sound, until it turns into silent stillness and becomes white.
Wassily Kandinsky
#13. This was what the poets couldn't put in their poetry, she thought dumbly, the rush of desire so fierce and pure it made one shake, all on the force of a word.
Lauren Willig
#14. To become pure is not difficult. Make the choices that will lead you to freedom and liberation - not enslavement to the wills, actions and desires of others.
Frederick Lenz
#15. Pure hearts will be Christlike. It is God's desire that we be conformed to the image of His Son.
Billy Graham
#16. I have come to realize that in every person there is something fine and pure and noble, along with a desire for self-fulfillment.
Jimmy Carter
#18. Are you going to be playing for the pure thrill of unreluctant desire?
David Levithan
#19. We usually need to have pain, trial or challenge to be motivated to learn or change. Learning in the midst of ease and prosperity comes from the pure inner soul's inspired desire for improvement.
Rand Olson
#20. Siddhartha has one single goal-to become empty, to become empty of thirst, desire, dreams, pleasure and sorrow-to let the Self die. No longer to be Self, to experience the peace of an emptied heart, to experience pure thought-that was his goal.
Hermann Hesse
#21. Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.
Solon
#22. If I want only pure water, what does it matter to me whether it be brought in a vase of gold or of glass? What is it to me whether the will of God be presented to me in tribulation or consolation, since I desire and seek only the Divine will? ...
Saint Francis De Sales
#23. Where true Love burns Desire is Love's pure flame;
It is the reflex of our earthly frame,
That takes its meaning from the nobler part,
And but translates the language of the heart.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#24. Rhys lowered his heard, his mouth on hers before he knew what was happening. Her lips moved beneath his, open and eager. He groaned and wound his arms around her. The kiss was ecstasy, bliss
pure rapture.
Desire blazed through him as hot as dragon fire.
Donna Grant
#25. Sometimes there was the pure, primal pain of grief, and other times there was anger, the frantic desire to claw and hit and kill, and sometimes, like right now, ther was just ordinary, dull sadness, settling itself softly, suffocatingly over her like a heave fog.
She was just so damned sad.
Liane Moriarty
#26. There we were, filled with pure animal need, as he pinned me to the wooden table, and cruelly whipped my naked bottom; the two of us sweaty and panting, me screaming, him grunting, our primal sexual natures overprinting the tea room's pretence at gentility, and refinement.
Fiona Thrust
#27. The remedy of disharmony is not in surrender but in understanding more about ones self & acting out of pure Will ... Desire 2 will; The art of transforming a desire into a formidable force of True Will
Dinesh Kumar
#28. Non-attachment is not the elimination of desire. It is the spaciousness to allow any quality of mind, any thought or feeling, to arise without closing around it, without eliminating the pure witness of being. It is an active receptivity to life.
Stephen Levine
#29. It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.
Saint Augustine
#30. Flying is more than a sport and more than a job; flying is pure passion and desire, which fill a lifetime.
Adolf Galland
#31. No one ever asks "Why are you married?" even though the question is just as valid as "Why are you single?" After all, people marry for many reasons other than pure love--fear of being alone, a desire for biological children, economic security, social status, health insurance.
Sara Eckel
#32. A pure love is a selfless love, but can desire ever be selfless?
John Dufresne
#33. There is nothing I want but your presence.
In friendship, time dissolves.
Life is a cup. This connection
is pure wine. What else are cups for?
I used to have twenty thousand
different desires.
Rumi
#34. If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.
Ramakrishna
#35. I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner.
Jacques Derrida
#36. He longed for cleanliness and tidiness: it was hard to find peace in the middle of disorder.
Robin Hobb
#37. Why the desire for death.
A clean paper or pure white wall.
One false line, a scratch, a mistake.
Unerasable. So obscureby
adding million other tracings,
blend it, cover over.
But the original scratch remains,
written in gold blood, shining.
Desire for a Perfect Life.
Jim Morrison
#38. If there is on earth, and among all these things of nothing, a belief worthy of adoration, if there is anything holy, pure and sublime, anything answering that immoderate desire for the infinite and the vague that we call the soul, it is art.
Gustave Flaubert
#39. Desire blazed in his eyes, but his voice was pure patience.
Kit Rocha
#40. But men are not content merely desire; they like to have a logical or pseudo-logical justification for their desires; they like to believe that when they want something, it is not merely for their own personal advantage, but that their desires are dictated by pure reason, by nature, by God Himself.
Aldous Huxley
#41. I was thinking about another kind of river, one that runs through every one of us, no matter where we come from, all over the world. It's the river of the heart, and the heart's desire. It's the pure, essential truth of what each one of us is, and can achieve.
Gregory David Roberts
#42. I had tasted cake and there was no going back. My tiny body had morphed into a writhing mass of pure tenacity encased in a layer of desperation. I would eat all of the cake or I would evaporate from the sheer power of my desire to eat it.
Allie Brosh
#43. There was a real conflation of hero and victim in the wake of 9/11, in our perverse desire to create a triumphant myth out of pure tragedy.
Jess Walter
#44. She was perfect, pure maddening sex, and she knew it, and she played on it, dripped it, and allowed you to suffer for it.
Charles Bukowski
#45. It is my observation that all human hearts are the same and that their ultimate desire is also the same. This soul wants happiness, perfect and pure happiness, because only then will all desires end. As long as desire exists misery exists, because with desire there can be no peace.
Rajneesh
#46. A songwriter's heart is pure when they have the desire to keep digging deeper into music. And invariably, when you dig deeper it always leads you into the past.
Jack White
#47. Throughout history, people have studied pure science from a desire to understand the universe rather than practical applications for commercial gain. But their discoveries later turned out to have great practical benefits.
Stephen Hawking
#48. What the boy felt was something pure, something gentle, something that predates sex or sensual fulfillment. It was the simple desire to reach out and touch a loving body, to be held in loving arms. Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so difficult to give up hope.
Michel Houellebecq
#49. My desire is to be pure again and not dirtied by the world. But it's my duty to be as ugly and as filthy as I am, so the audience can experience what I have.
Marilyn Manson
#50. Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker, and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened, then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion and a genuine desire to serve others.
Rod Stryker
#51. Lust, pure gorgeous lust: the sacred energy that elevates us, and makes us feel so special.
Fiona Thrust
#52. Our sincere desire should be to have both clean hands and a pure heart - both a remission of sins from day to day and to walk guiltless before God.
David A. Bednar
#53. Feelings of passion, pure bliss, reverence, optimism, trust and illumination indicate that your desire to manifest success and abundance has an extremely strong pulling power from the universal source to you.
Wayne Dyer
#54. Pure love is pure bliss, pure happiness, eternal desire, and eternal destination.
Debasish Mridha
#55. Vitarags [the enlightened one] do not have a desire for giving or receiving charity. They are in the state of 'shuddh upyog' [pure awareness of pure soul].
Dada Bhagwan
#56. Making every desire come true is not difficult once you realize that the same thing is always at work - you are transforming pure awareness from one state to another.
Deepak Chopra
#57. I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking,
a precious yet poignant pleasure; pure gold, with a steely point of agony: a pleasure like what the thirst-perishing man might feel who knows the well to which he has crept is poisoned, yet stoops and drinks divine draughts nevertheless.
Charlotte Bronte
#58. A pure heart means a single heart, a heart in which only one desire lives: love.
Peter Kreeft
#59. If oceans of time
could grant
heart one simple
desire
We would be
lovers afloat
on trained trapeze
high wire
Pleasurably bound by
invisible chords
of rapture
Harnessed in mid air
embraced foiled
skilled arms of capture
Zuky Rose Leigh
#60. there was the pure, primal pain of grief, and other times there was anger, the frantic desire to claw and hit and kill, and
Liane Moriarty
#61. My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia ... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian.
Malcolm Turnbull
#62. If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love.
Michelangelo
#63. What you want is already here, in the unified field of pure potential. Everything you need to fulfill your greatest desire is already part of your being. But it can't come out until you align with it, let go of the obstructions to it, and raise your vibration to the level at which it already exists.
Derek Rydall
#64. There was no thought in her now, no control. Every sound, every movement - it was pure impulse. Instinct and desire. Truth.
Kit Rocha
#65. The experience of light in a very pure form always creates happiness. The experience of desire and aversion tends to create unhappiness.
Frederick Lenz
#66. Because monks come from the midst of purity, they consider as good and pure what does not arouse desire among other people.
Dogen
#67. The emotions between the races could never be pure; even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was missing in ourselves. Whether we sought out our demons or salvation, the other race would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart.
Barack Obama
#68. Immigration, as promoted by the Democrat Party, really is a voter registration drive, pure and simple. It is a desire by the Democrat Party to find another way to remain in perpetual power, by creating as many dependent voters as they can.
Rush Limbaugh
#69. O stars, isn't it from you that the lover's desire for the face of his beloved arises? Doesn't his secret insight into her pure features come from the pure constellations? - from "The Third Elegy" by Rainer Maria Rilke Fine
Philip Pullman
#70. The attention is to be kept pure. In Sahaja Yoga you know all the methods how the attention, one can keep it pure. If the attention is not pure, then this desire will be always attacked by all petty, nonsensical things which have no meaning in your ascent.
Nirmala Srivastava
#71. From a pure heart anything can be accomplished. If you ask what the universe is doing, it is eavesdropping on your every desire.
Deepak Chopra
#72. Love without desire, or conditions, or limits - a pure and radiant glow in the heart that could make me giddy and sad and glorious all at once.
Christopher Moore
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