Top 100 Quotes About Desires
#1. Women are concerned about the purity and welfare of the community. ? While the father's love was related to mundane desires, the mother's love was related to spiritual concerns.
Sathya Sai Baba
#3. In this condition one enriches everything out of one's own abundance: what one sees, what one desires, one sees swollen, pressing, strong, over laden with energy. The man in this condition transforms things until they mirror his power - until they are reflections of his perfections
Friedrich Nietzsche
#4. Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desires
Orison Swett Marden
#5. To see a thing uncolored by one's own personal preferences and desires is to see it in its own pristine simplicity.
Bruce Lee
#6. In a way, art is a great way to release your love, fantasy, and desires. It's like a fetish. It's a comfortable way of excising a lot of your conscience.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#7. When you have what you want (inner peace), you are less distracted by your wants, needs, desires, and concerns. It's thus easier to concentrate, focus, achieve your goals, and to give back to others.
Richard Carlson
#8. I think the cultural task is to separate our impulses and needs and desires from the supernatural and, above all, from the superstitious.
Christopher Hitchens
#9. May God grant us a desire for God that supersedes all other desires.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#10. People who repress desires often turn, suddenly, into hypocrites.
Rumi
#11. It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than adversity ruins.
Norm MacDonald
#12. Throughout the ages, Christians have adapted John of Patmos's visions to changing times, reading their own social, political and religious conflicts into the cosmic war he so powerfully evokes. Yet his Book of Revelation appeals not only to fear and desires for vengeance but also to hope.
Elaine Pagels
#13. I believe that dreamers who simply imagine things that would be nice but are not possible don't sufficiently appreciate the laws of the universe to understand the true implications of their desires, much less how to achieve them.
Ray Dalio
#14. History is a hermaphrodite with many distinguished lovers. We are neither mysteries nor strangers but the living breath of revelation made flesh by the unrestrained desires of a free and universal love. Universal me. Universal you.
from Past Present and Future are One
Aberjhani
#15. How can everyone help bring peace to the world? By not being ashamed of who they are and by acting according to their heart's desires. And by telling their stories.
Paulo Coelho
#16. The root of all desires is the one desire: to come home, to be at peace.
Jean Klein
#17. God desires to reveal the riches of His glory to the world through the abundance of people who have dedicated their lives to Him
Sunday Adelaja
#18. It is how a person goes about quenching his desires or living with them unrequited that the readers get a glimpse of his true character.
Michael Connelly
#19. Control your desires as if your life depended on them, then your life will do.
Nityananda Das
#20. A rapist, by definition, is only interested in gratifying his own desires. A rapist doesn't care what a woman wants. If he did, he wouldn't rape. -
Jon Krakauer
#21. The soul is bound to the body by a chain of desires, temptations, troubles and worries, and it is trying to free itself. If you keep tugging at that chain which is holding you to mortal consciousness, some day an invisible Divine Hand will intervene and snap it apart and you will be free.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#22. Spies have the same kinds of needs and desires that everybody does, which is funny. The best kind of comedy derives from that kind of truth.
Matt Nix
#23. Beautiful conventions received them--while beyond the barrier Maurice wandered, the wrong words on his lips, the wrong desires in his heart, and his arms full of air.
E. M. Forster
#25. A voluntary simplification of life-styles is not beyond our abilities, but it is probably outside our desires.
Bill McKibben
#26. Never stop hoping for all of the righteous desires of your heart. But don't close your eyes and hearts to the simple and elegant beauties of each day's ordinary moments that make up a rich, well-lived life
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#27. Sometimes we have to meet people where they are, Ollie. Honor their desires, regardless of out own.
Tess Hilmo
#28. Happiness is just being you, where you are right now. Allow yourself to be you. Shut off all the silly thoughts and desires and crazy emotions
Frederick Lenz
#29. The best way to trick yourself into actually feeling these positive feelings, even if you are not feeling too good is to use your memories, fantasies, dreams and desires judiciously.
Malti Bhojwani
#30. You are the most irritating man I've ever met!"
He grinned. "But you like my kisses."...
"Am I not to have dreams, or desires, or enjoy - pleasure? 'Twon't do, Alasdair Og Sinclair, kissing a lass, and then forbidding her to have any more, when it's your fault I like kisses.
Lecia Cornwall
#31. He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
Anton Chekhov
#32. It is shallow desires which make a young man bold; strong desires confound him.
Giacomo Casanova
#33. We each harbor a shadow self with shadowy motives and murky desires ...
John Geddes
#34. And real happiness will come, not in gratifying our desires or in gaining transient pleasures, but in accomplishing God's will for us: even as we pray every day: "Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#35. We want. Life leaks. Desires are disappointed. And God, our Father, remains eternally good.
Jen Pollock Michel
#36. Like everyone else I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of ancestral promptings and urgings; a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, all of which I am the sum total.
Charlie Chaplin
#37. In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond ...
Khalil Gibran
#38. This world is moving around like a wheel. That indeed is the last birth in which one gets completely rid of all desires.
Sarada Devi
#39. Every man, it seems, interprets the world in the light of his habits and desires
Richard Wright
#40. He and Evie soon fell into a conversation of the "No, I didn't; yes, you did" type - conversation which, although fascinating to those who are engaged in it, neither desires nor deserves the attention of others.
E. M. Forster
#41. All our desires are desires of the soul, ultimately,
Though they look like desires mental or sensory;
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Munindra Misra
#42. A psychologically healthy person can, in fact, be defined as someone whose desires actually produce happiness.
Deepak Chopra
#43. God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The inequality lies in the way in which His touch, His warnings, and His gifts are received.
Johannes Tauler
#44. It is characteristic of the military mentality that non-human factors ... are held essential, while the human being, his desires and thoughts-in short, the psychological factors-are considered as unimportant and secondary.
Albert Einstein
#46. Fantasies were safe. It was a break from reality. A chance to act on desires for a short period of time.
Maya Banks
#47. It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.
Hilary Mantel
#48. If our deepest desires cannot be satisfied in this world, then we must have been made for another world.
C.S. Lewis
#49. Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!
Sean O'Casey
#50. Live contemplating the body through mindfulness. Live contemplating feelings. In this way you will be aware of and control wrong desires.
Gautama Buddha
#51. Some form of self-discipline is necessary to transmute material desires into spiritual aspirations.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#52. We have a dangerous tendency to misunderstand, minimize, and even manipulate the gospel in order to accommodate our assumptions and our desires.
David Platt
#53. As a general rule, desire is always marketable: we don't do anything but sell, buy, exchange desires ... And I think of Bloy's words: there is nothing perfectly beautiful except what is invisible and above all unbuyable.
Roland Barthes
#54. 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
#55. People fall in love with you not because they admire you, it is because they found their desires inside of you.
Debasish Mridha
#56. God desires that through us the ones who do not know him will be convinced
Sunday Adelaja
#57. My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.
Ingmar Bergman
#58. For nurturing the mind, there's nothing like paring your desires away to a very few. If you have few desires, there may still be some capricious whims in your mind, but they'll be few. If you have many desires, there may be some enduring principles in your mind, but they'll be few indeed.
Mencius
#59. Social stability comes at the price of wearing a mask, of learning to distance ourselves from our unique nature, from our personal desires, needs, and feelings; instead, we embrace a socially acceptable self.
Frederic Laloux
#60. Now the New Year reviving old Desires.
The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires,
Where the White Hand Of Moses on the Bough
Puts out, and Jesus from the Ground suspires.
Omar Khayyam
#61. I'll never let the voices in my head talk me out of the desires of my heart.
Stacey Covington-Lee
#62. I can pretty much spend an entire week talking about how the writing process works, to be honest! It can really vary from project to project and is often dependent on when you're brought on board, the genre, the platform and the narrative desires of the project.
Rhianna Pratchett
#63. Your treasure - your perfection - is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the busy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart. The kundalini shakti - the supreme energy of the divine - will take you there.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#64. Only mavericks live in accordance with their desires, and even they don't often get away with it. They are usually labeled as troublemakers and gotten rid of.
Sheri S. Tepper
#65. Slavery remains rife, the shackles are just different. Labels and desires have replaced the cuffs and chains.
Aisha Mirza
#66. Everything humanity have achieved is achieved by dreams, desires, and actions.
Debasish Mridha
#67. There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode.
Joseph De Maistre
#68. The religion of Big Data sets itself the goal of fulfilling man's unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignores her attainable needs.
Ludwig Feuerbach
#69. We were sent to this country by the President, who desires to promote the welfare of Japan, and are quite different from the ambassadors of other countries.
Townsend Harris
#70. Either way, you were connected. By your desires. By your defiance. By the simple, complicated fact of who you were.
David Levithan
#71. Record collection, with all those lifetimes and desires rhymed and distilled into two or three minutes of a song.
Michael Ondaatje
#72. If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.
Alison Bechdel
#73. 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
#74. Dreams, desires, destiny, and difficulties in life make it a magical and meaningful fairytale.
Debasish Mridha
#75. If you close your mind in judgements and traffic with desires, your heart will be troubled. If you keep your mind from judging and aren't led by the senses, your heart will find peace.
Laozi
#76. A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#77. Arguably, horror may be understood as a fictional indulgence in fantasies of violence, and our fascination with it seen as a form of sublimation of repressed desires. If we accept this line of thinking, then horror has the benefit of, at least, being one of the most honest of genres.
Xavier Aldana Reyes
#78. The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibilit y for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires
Edmund Burke
#79. We have been told that freedom is the ability to pursue petty, trivial desires when true freedom is freedom from these petty, trivial desires.
Russell Brand
#80. Our desires teach us who we are and who we want to become. Our desires shape our stories.
Christina Baldwin
#81. Lansens is a willing storyteller ... As a writer, she desires a particular kind of reader, one who wants above all to be transported
who might sit at her knee, the hearth.
Noah Richler
#82. A man after God's own heart is ...
a man who yearns to please God,
a man who desires to grow spiritually,
a man who had a heart that obeys.
Jim George
#83. Whether in the workplace or in personal relationships, success belongs to those who are willing to take responsibility for attaining their desires-those who respond to life actively rather than passively.
Nathaniel Branden
#84. Laws are made for one purpose only (...) to hold us in check when our desires grow immoderate. As long as our desires are moderate we have no need of laws.
J.M. Coetzee
#85. It is on our bodies that the law must go to work, not only on our minds. Reason must govern in collusion with the senses it subdues, rather as an astute sovereign rules in a way that allows each citizen to feel that he is doing no more than obeying the diktats of his own desires.
Terry Eagleton
#86. Your customers don't care about you. They don't care about your product or service. They care about themselves, their dreams, their goals. Now, they will care much more if you help them reach their goals, and to do that, you must understand their goals, as well as their needs and deepest desires.
Steve Jobs
#87. In every moment we are faced with choices that will serve our highest intentions, or gratify our unconscious desires.
Dashama Konah Gordon
#88. My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived.
Mason Cooley
#89. The history of society is the history of the inventive labors that man alter man, alter his desires, habits, outlook, relationships both to other men and to physical nature, with which man is in perpetual physical and technological metabolism.
Isaiah Berlin
#90. She had concealed her hidden desires even from herself, unable to say why, but she needed no answer. It was enough that she had done what she had done. She had surrendered herself.
Paulo Coelho
#91. We usually think of ourselves as sitting the driver's seat, with ultimate control over the decisions we made and the direction our life takes; but, alas, this perception has more to do with our desires-with how we want to view ourselves-than with reality
Dan Ariely
#92. The two desires struggle within me: the desire to be safe, and the desire to know. I cannot tell which one will win.
Ally Condie
#93. We often think of prayer as nothing more than words spoken to God, but maybe it's more than that. Prayer is not a monologue; it's a dialogue. We speak to God with everything from words to groans to thoughts. And God speaks to us through dreams, desires, promptings, impressions, and ideas.
Mark Batterson
#94. When you have become God's in the measure he desires, then he himself will bestow you upon others; unless, to your greater glory, he chooses to keep you all to himself.
Saint Basil
#95. My praying friend, continue to make known your desires to God in all things ... Let Him decide whether you are to receive what you ask for or not.
Ole Hallesby
#96. Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.
Joyce Meyer
#98. We exist in order to actualize the deepest desires of our hearts.
Deepak Chopra
#99. To enlighten mankind and improve its morals is the only lesson which we offer in this story. In reading it, may the world discover how great is the peril which follows the footsteps of those who will stop at nothing to satisfy their desires.
Marquis De Sade
#100. God desires that Christians would avoid repeating the disobedient mistakes of the Israelites.
Sunday Adelaja
