Top 100 Quotes About Desiring
#1. May God enable me to have a single eye and a simple heart, desiring to please God, to do good to my fellow creatures, and testify my gratitude to my adorable Redeemer.
William Wilberforce
#2. I cannot blame them, in truth, for desiring ... But they were like children, who have only just begun to grasp the idea of a thing. And like children, they had no notion of laboring to create, but only of having ... and no thought given to the cost, to others, of taking it.
Jacqueline Carey
#3. All things of this phenomenal world are mere illusion. They are worth neither discussing nor desiring.
Yoshida Kenko
#4. Once, during the drinking phase, Wendy had accused him of desiring his own destruction but not possessing the necessary moral fiber to support a full-blown deathwish. So he manufactured ways in which other people could do it, lopping a piece at a time off himself and their family.
Stephen King
#5. It is strange," Mr. Willoughby said, and the air of reflection in his voice was echoed exactly by Jamie's, "but it was my joy of women that Second Wife saw and loved in my words. Yet by desiring to possess me - and my poems - she would have forever destroyed what she admired." Mr.
Diana Gabaldon
#6. I don't recall ever desiring to go as fast as possible.
Hannah Kearney
#7. Man is busy desiring to find something which only he can do so that his ego acquires importance.
Rajneesh
#8. With fear, possessiveness enters the picture, then jealousy rears its ugly head. Jealousy is the opposite of desiring life and freedom of choice for one's partner.
Peter Shepherd
#9. One must realize that all who have accumulated great fortunes first did a certain amount of dreaming, hoping, wishing, desiring, and planning before they acquired money.
Napoleon Hill
#10. the way we can know if we've betrayed ourselves is by whether we are still desiring to be helpful.
The Arbinger Institute
#11. People are disposed to mistake predicting troubles for causing troubles and even for desiring troubles.
Enoch Powell
#12. Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also to choose such an opportunity for writing as it may be lawful to think what they will, and write what they think, which is a rare happiness of the time.
Walter Raleigh
#13. Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.
Victor Hugo
#14. It belonged to the changeless order of things---the man desiring the woman only for what she withholds; the woman worshipping the man for that which she yields up to him. With each concession gained the man's desire cools; with every surrender made the woman's adoration increases...
Frank Norris
#15. All desiring is desiring for the futile. It leads only into frustration.
Rajneesh
#16. This is what you learned in college," the narrator tells you early on. "A man desires the satisfaction of his desire; a woman desires the condition of desiring.
Pam Munoz Ryan
#17. What do I mean by loving ourselves properly? I mean first of all, desiring to live, accepting life as a very great gift and a great good, not because of what it gives us, but because of what it enables us to give to others.
Thomas Merton
#18. Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody - really want him - it is as though you have taken a surgical needle and sutured your happiness to the skin of that person, so that any separation will now cause a lacerating injury.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#19. And yet, I have not wronged you, have I? Indeed if there is anyone I may have sinned against, it is me. That desiring you as I do, needing you as I do, I still let you go.
Ama Ata Aidoo
#20. I never wanted to feel ashamed for striving, for desiring, for ambition. And I never wanted to judge another woman, or anyone, for that matter, for their own aspirations, even if they differed from my own
Carrie Brownstein
#21. I don't know exactly what covetous is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness as rejecting it, taking offense at the beauty of it.
Marilynne Robinson
#22. When desiring ceases, the other world opens. The other world is hidden in this world. But because your eyes are full of desire, full of the ego, you cannot see it.
Rajneesh
#23. Unattainability. The most intense joy lies not in the having, but in
the desiring. The delight that never fades, the bliss that is eternal,
is only yours when what you most desire is just out of your reach.
C.S. Lewis
#24. Bliss becomes blissful with practice. In our own bliss the desire, desirer and process of desiring are united - they are one. Desire is fulfilled at its source.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#25. Whereas by desiring someone who would not desire her, she could allow this fire to burn and feel: how alive I am! I am capable of desire.
Anais Nin
#26. My favorite kind of musical experience is to feel afterward that your heart is filled up and transformed, like it is pumping a whole new kind of blood into your veins. This is what it is to be a fan: curious, open, desiring for connection, to feel like art has chosen you, claimed you as its witness.
Carrie Brownstein
#27. It is by desiring to grow in love that we receive the Holy Spirit, and the thirst for more charity is the effect of this more abundant reception.
Thomas Merton
#28. I usually write from my own experience, and that's definitely a true statement for me. I think having a song about desiring to live and wanting to get it right, which many of my songs do, often I have to clarify that I haven't figured it out yet.
Jon Foreman
#29. Making love is not just becoming as one, or even two, but becoming as a hundred thousand. Desiring-machines or the nonhuman sex: not one or even two sexes, but n sexes.
Gilles Deleuze
#30. So many of our young women today, they're growing up without a father, but they're still thirsty for that and desiring positive male love.
Hill Harper
#31. Over the years I have discovered that ideas come through an intense desire for them; continually desiring, the mind becomes a watchtower on the lookout for incidents that may excite the imagination.
Charlie Chaplin
#33. Enlightenment, awakening or liberation can never be attained by seeking or desiring. It is realized only through experience.
Gian Kumar
#34. What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring.
C.S. Lewis
#36. It is poetic and lyrical; words that spill forth like cool waters into the dusty dry rock bed of the Soul desiring love. It has been said that I've lived in the desert all my life and do not know what it means to be wet.
Sophia Rose
#37. Practice not wanting, desiring, judging, doing, fighting, knowing. Practice just being. Everything will fall into place.
James Frey
#38. Stop fussing over me, woman. I will be whole again shortly, and then you can resume ogling me and desiring my body.
Katie MacAlister
#39. Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse.
Samuel Alexander
#40. The secret to happiness is to admire without desiring.
Carl Sandburg
#41. When we pour out our miseries, He hears a melody of us needing and desiring what only He can give.
Stacey Thacker
#42. Most souls labor under a self imposed curse of desiring but never truly giving themselves over to love.
Michael Xavier
#43. I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes.
William H Gass
#44. Believing that you cannot have something is the same thing as not desiring to have it, for it produces the same result.
Neale Donald Walsch
#45. You mean that between desiring good and desiring evil there is a brief step, because it is always a matter of directing the will. This is true. But the difference lies in the object, and the object is clearly recognizable. God on this side, the Devil on that.
Umberto Eco
#46. Be watchful lest thou lose the power of desiring and loving what appeals to the soul this is the miser's curse this the chain and ball the sensualist drags.
John Lancaster Spalding
#47. Almost all men are infected with the disease of desiring to obtain useless knowledge,
Tony Reinke
#48. 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
#49. Any human being who does not wish to be part of the masses need only stop making things easy for himself. Let him follow his conscience, which calls out to him: Be yourself! All that you are now doing, thinking, desiring, all that is not you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#50. Natural knowledge, seeking to satisfy natural wants, has found the ideas which can alone still spiritual cravings. I say that natural knowledge, in desiring to ascertain the laws of comfort, has been driven to discover those of conduct, and to lay the foundations of a new morality.
Thomas Huxley
#51. All plot comes from the character's trying to get something, to achieve something, wanting, desiring, longing.
Robert Olen Butler
#52. All political action aims at either preservation or change. When desiring to preserve, we wish to prevent a change for the worse; when desiring to change, we wish to bring about something better. All political action is then guided by some thought of better or worse.
Leo Strauss
#53. Surrendering means non-desiring.
Rajneesh
#54. Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
Ezra Pound
#55. Those desiring speedily to be
A refuge for themselves and others
Should make the interchange of "I" and "other,"
And thus embrace a sacred mystery.
Santideva
#56. This is what sexism does best: it makes you feel crazy for desiring parity and hopeless about ever achieving it.
Deborah Copaken Kogan
#57. God made the senses turn outwards, man therefore looks outwards, not into himself. But occasionally a daring soul, desiring immortality, has looked back and found himself.
Eknath Easwaran
#58. Desiring money kills desire. Money kills desire.
Andre Chamson
#59. That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil
widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
George Eliot
#60. Joy is produced in our hearts when we know that God loves us, when we have a close relationship with Him through reading His Word, praying, and desiring to honor Him in all that we do, and by serving others.
Billy Graham
#61. Whatever suffering there is in this world,all arises from desiring only myself to be happy.And whatever joy there is in this world,all arises from desiring to share my happiness with everyone.
Gautama Buddha
#62. Thus Gotama [Buddha] walked toward the town to gather alms, and the two samanas recognized him solely by the perfection of his repose, by the calmness of his figure, in which there was no trace of seeking, desiring, imitating, or striving, only light and peace
Hermann Hesse
#63. Most of the times, reason for unhappiness is desiring for the things which are far from fulfilling our expectations.
Sriveena Dhagavkar
#64. Refraining from all evil, not clinging to birth and death, working in deep compassion for all sentient beings, respecting those over you and pitying those below you, without any detesting or desiring, worrying or lamentation - this is what is called Buddha. Do not search beyond it.
Dogen
#65. Desires are done by the 'Pudgal' (non-self mind-body-complex), so how can they be suppressed? If You (the Self) are the one doing the desiring, then why don't you stop it? But that doesn't happen therefore, desire is a matter pertaining to the Pudgal (non-self mind-body-complex).
Dada Bhagwan
#66. Essential to life, is desiring the things that you need, than needing the things you desire.
Anthony Liccione
#67. It isn't sex by itself that makes abortion. It is sex plus covetousness: desiring things that God does not will for us to have because we are not willing to find our satisfaction in him. Illicit sex and unencumbered freedom without children: for these we covet, and abortion is the result.
John Piper
#68. Most of the time reason for unhappiness is, desiring for the things which are far from our expectations.
Sriveena Dhagavkar
#69. I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them.
Eleanora Duse
#70. Very often when we have found ourselves forever separated from what we had intended to achieve, we have already, on our way, found something else worth desiring.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#71. The commandment that prohibits desiring the goods of one's neighbor attempts to resolve the number one problem of every human community: internal violence.
Rene Girard
#72. Like every dreamer, I've always felt that my calling was to create. Since I've never been able to make an effort or carry out an intention, creation for me has always meant dreaming, wanting or desiring, and action has meant desiring of the acts I wish I could perform.
Fernando Pessoa
#73. Love is giving without desiring, it's giving without requiring, but know that it will be returned. Maybe not as expected, but as needed
Gerald Mills
#74. Strether wondered, desiring justice. "They seem - all the women - very harmonious." "Oh in closer quarters they come out!" And then, while Strether was aware of fearing closer quarters, though giving himself again to the harmonies,
Henry James
#75. Women are sensitive to it, to the weight of the desiring gaze.
J.M. Coetzee
#76. Whenever we do good to another self, just because it is a self, made (like us) by God, and desiring its own happiness as we desire ours, we shall have learned to love it a little more or, at least, to dislike it less.
C.S. Lewis
#77. Funny, that. For so long Wormwood had desired the throne and then, when he'd had it, it hadn't been worth desiring after all.
John Connolly
#78. The air is full of souls those who are nearest to earth descending to be tied to mortal bodies return to other bodies, desiring to live in them.
Philo
#79. Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.
Rene Descartes
#80. Desiring the unattainable; that's all this is about,
Kamila Shamsie
#81. Prayer is life passionately wanting, wishing, desiring God's triumph. Prayer is life striving and toiling everywhere and always for that ultimate victory.
G. Campbell Morgan
#82. Earnshaw was not to be civilized with a wish, and my young lady was no philosopher, and no paragon of patience; but both their minds tending to the same point - one loving and desiring to esteem, and the other loving and desiring to be esteemed - they contrived in the end to reach it.
Emily Bronte
#83. God's love looks for those who feel unlovely, desiring to make them beautiful again.
Natalie Grant
#84. Persons desiring to know what love is might benefit more if they were able to understand what love is not.
Floyd Henderson
#85. If you are not realizing your desires, you are not desiring in faith with all your heart.
Grant Von Harrison
#86. The fulfillment we have in owning, in desiring, is temporary and illusory, because there is nothing at all we can have that we will not lose eventually. And so there is always fear.
Sharon Salzberg
#87. Enlightenment happens only in that moment when there is no complaint in you,when you are not going anywhere, not desiring, not condemning, not judging.You simply exist and with total acceptance. This moment there is enlightenment.
Rajneesh
#88. When you accept discomfort of whatever moment that you are in. The power of that surrender, that letting go of desiring to be in a different situation than the one your in.........will set you free from the hell of your unconscious.
Matthew Donnelly
#89. We are a singularity that makes music out of noise because we must hurry. We make a harvest of loneliness and desiring in the blank wasteland of the cosmos.
Jack Gilbert
#90. As if intoxicated, I then enjoyed her presence in the things I saw, and, desiring her in them, with the sight of them I was sated.
Umberto Eco
#91. Medical men have searched the world for remedies, desiring an antidote. Chiropractors find the cause in the person ailing.
B. J. Palmer
#92. It began to really eat away with me that in the '60s the federal government, desiring to help poor moms who were dealing with deadbeat dads, decided, 'We'll help: we'll give a check for every child you can have out of wedlock.'
Louie Gohmert
#93. You did not fear death. You stepped in its path, but without really desiring it: how can one desire something one doesn't know? You didn't deny life but affirmed your taste for the unknown, betting that if something existed on the other side, it would be better than here.
Edouard Leve
#94. idea. But if you look at her early films, the best ones are all about Bette wanting a male she can't have: Dangerous. All This, and Heaven Too. Jezebel. The Letter. Now, Voyager. They're all about the unattainable. They're all about a woman desiring a man she can never possess.
Jane Lotter
#95. Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.
C.S. Lewis
#97. A man of humanity is one who, in seeking to establish himself, finds a foothold for others and who, in desiring attaining himself, helps others to attain.
Confucius
#98. Enjoy what you have rather than desiring what you don't have
Craig Groeschel
#99. Peace consists, very largely, in the fact of desiring it with all one's soul.
Oscar Arias
#100. Lord, save the Church from desiring to have pews, choirs, organs, or instrumental music, and a congregational ministry, like other heathen Churches around them!
Peter Cartwright
