Top 100 Things We Desire Quotes
#1. Things unhoped for happen oftener than things we desire.
Plautus
#2. Also, I'm drawn to moments of ambiguity, when things could go right or they could go wrong. I'm interested in discomfort. Discomfort is a place where we're still close enough to comfort to understand our unhappiness. Most of the things we desire are things that can destroy us.
Laurel Nakadate
#3. Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.
Plautus
#4. The future knows what things we desire, unless there is something greater in our path that chases us away.
Stephanie Garber
#5. It is better to desire the things we have than to have the things we desire.
Henry Van Dyke
#6. The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
Brian Tracy
#7. We should desire very few things passionately if we did but perfectly know the nature of the things we desire.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#8. Desire also creates a sense of attachment in the mind. Not only are we attached to our way of thinking and of seeing the world, but we become over-attached to the people or things we desire.
Gyalwa Dokhampa
#9. There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.
John Churton Collins
#10. Sometimes we get off course, desiring things or setting goals that will lead to no good end. But if our desire is in the right place, loving Jesus and loving others, there is no telling where Jesus can take us.
Richard Foth
#11. I think the desire for adventure and discovery is the essence by which our souls have been woven. It is as if we all might be browsers by nature, and we not even for a moment cease to surprise and wonder about the things around us.
Paola Sanjinez
#12. We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us.
Ovid
#13. We are disgusted by the things that we desire, and we desire what disgusts us.
Mario Cuomo
#14. When we take the one seat on our meditation cushion we become our own monastery. We create the compassionate space that allows for the arising of all things: sorrows, loneliness, shame, desire, regret, frustration, happiness.
Jack Kornfield
#15. Turns out, we don't want to be content. We keep buying more stuff and doing more things. The striving is endless. The pile of gadgets grows, and the desire for bigger houses, nicer cars, and a cooler wardrobe is insatiable.
Darrin Patrick
#16. It is the will of our heavenly Father that we should come to Him freely and confidently and make known our desires to Him, just as we would have our children come freely and of their own accord and speak to us about the things they would like to have.
Ole Hallesby
#17. The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the
selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the
unselfish motives will follow as we wise up.
Barbara Kingsolver
#18. Necessity used to be the mother of invention, but then we ran out of things that were necessary. The postmodern mother of invention is desire; we don't really "need" anything new, so we only create what we want.
Chuck Klosterman
#19. Ah Love! could thou and I with Fate conspire
To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire,
Would not we shatter it to bits
and then
Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!
Omar Khayyam
#20. There is what we desire to do, and what we are able to do. When those two things don't coincide, which path should we pursue to find happiness?
Hiroshi Sakurazaka
#21. To set goals and pursue them, we must have a desire to dream of things some would think to be impossible.
Ellen J. Barrier
#22. We feel secure with things we can see or touch.
Deepak Chopra
#23. Of all the things we've learned, we still haven't learned where did this desire to want to know come from?
Jane Wagner
#24. It is incredibly difficult to resist our desire to form narratives, to tell stories even if they may not be altogether correct, or correct at all. We like simplicity. We like concrete reasons. We like causes. We like things that make intuitive sense (even if that sense happens to be wrong)
Anonymous
#25. We all desire things that we believe we cannot have, and so my films reflect that again and again. The mystery must be solved, the goal attained.
Kim Ji-woon
#26. We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.
Marcel Proust
#27. As radical as it may seem, it is possible to do things only out of play. I believe that to the degree that we engage moment by moment in the playfulness of enriching life- motivated solely by the desire for its enrichment- to that degree are we being compassionate with ourselves.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#28. As we face our vulnerability and weakness, there are things you and I should pray for regularly. We should pray for purity of desire, wisdom to recognize the enemy's tricks, and strength to fight the battles we can't avoid.
Paul David Tripp
#29. Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species.
C.S. Lewis
#30. We set forth our petitions before God, not in order to make known to Him our needs and desires, but rather so that we ourselves may realize that in these things it is necessary to turn to God for help.
Thomas Aquinas
#31. Prayer involves transformed passions. In prayer, real prayer, we begin to think God's thoughts after Him: to desire the things He desires, to love the things He loves, to will the things He wills.
Richard J. Foster
#32. I think it's an interesting thing to me, because we have this desire for everything to be explained to us. But if you go through your daily actions, very little ends up having a written-down explanation for why things happen, or why people do specific things.
Alice Sebold
#33. Sometimes the best things for us aren't necessarily the things we want.
Sara Farizan
#34. We all know about love, faith, sadness, despair, hope, hopelessness, longing, desire ... those are things we all have inside of us, and that's what my songs are about ... what it means to be a human being.
Ron Pope
#35. We desire to understand the world by giving names to the things we see, but these things are only the effects of something subtle.
Laozi
#36. Like art, political action gives shape and expression to the things we fear as well as to those we desire. It is a creative process, drawing on the power to imagine as well as to act.
Madeleine M. Kunin
#37. Prayer does not mean asking God for all kinds of things we want, it is rather the desire for God Himself, the only Giver of Life.
Sadhu Sundar Singh
#38. We can't just stop. We're not rocks-progress, migration, motion is ... modernity. It's ANIMATE, it's what living things do. We desire. Even if all we desire is stillness, it's still desire for ...
Tony Kushner
#39. We think in our society today that the way people change is that they have to have a deep desire to change or that the way they change is they have to hit rock bottom. But neither of those things is true.
Andy Andrews
#40. When our deepest desire is not the things of God, or a favor from God, but God Himself, we cross a threshold.
Max Lucado
#41. The whole course of things goes to teach us faith. We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening, we shall hear the right word. The right word? desire!
Napoleon Hill
#42. People have had to make up for their spiritual impoverishment by accumulating material things. When spiritual blessings come, material blessings seem unimportant. As long as we desire material things this is all we receive, and we remain spiritually impoverished.
Peace Pilgrim
#43. Whether or not we know what we are creating or how we are creating it, when things do not turn out the way we desire, our human instincts drive us to look for someone to blame.
Iyanla Vanzant
#44. We are all these things [ ... ]. Pride, desire, compassion, cleverness, belligerence, fruitfulness, loyalty ... and guilt. But above it all stands love. And if we desire to be more than human, that is the star by which we must set our sights.
Jacqueline Carey
#45. We desire the wrong things, and we desire right things in the wrong way. And both are deadly - like eating pleasant poison.
John Piper
#46. When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord.
Willa Cather
#47. It is lawful to love all things and to seek them, once they become means to the love of God. There is nothing we cannot ask of Him if we desire it in order that He may be more loved by ourselves or by other men.
Thomas Merton
#48. As Marshall Rosenberg expressed, we have learned as a family that what we desire above all things as human beings is to be the cause of joy in another.
Erin Taylor
#49. Most of our troubles are due to our passionate desire for and attachment to things that we misapprehend as enduring entities.
Dalai Lama
#50. He knew that those things we most desire to hold in our hearts are often taken from us while that which we would put away seems often by that very wish to become endowed with unsuspected powers of endurance.
Anonymous
#51. I do believe there are things that we desire that are not in the cards. But more often than not, when people have a desire for a relationship and it's not happening, there are probably issues to be resolved and issues people could work on that would ultimately end in that desire being fulfilled.
Henry Cloud
#52. Without making a fetish of goal setting, and without letting "lists" of tasks we desire to do dominate us, some recording of goals is wise not only for the self-reminder these constitute, but also for the satisfaction of crossing things off.
Neal A. Maxwell
#53. But I think the one thing that I can say about us is that we're very consistent about certain things and part of that is our desire to do the very best work that we can and not rest on our laurels, or not allow formula to come into what we do.
Michael Stipe
#54. If we want great things to happen then we must create space in our lives for what we desire.
Hina Hashmi
#55. If our principal treasure be as we profess, in things spiritual and heavenly, and woe unto us if it be not so! on them will our affections, and consequently our desires and thoughts, be principally fixed.
John Owen
#56. Buddhism - Tibetan Buddhism - teaches us many things, peace comes from within, we must be free ourselves from earthly desires.
Peter Sagal
#57. Breaking, in modern psychology, 'learned helplessness.' This is where you crush an animal's desire to fight. Why is it that we believe broken things are tamed possessions?
Rebecca K. O'Connor
#58. We live in a culture of complaint because everyone is always looking for things to complain about. It's all tied in with the desire to blame others for misfortunes and to get some form of compensation into the bargain.
Alexander McCall Smith
#59. Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?
Joseph Butler
#60. One thing that unites us all, one thing is universal among the human species; the anatomy. Big, small, fat, thin, colour or creed are irrelevant. Under the skin, under the flesh, we are one and the same. We desire the same things; love, money, power. All the things we can not have, not without cost.
Rob Shepherd
#61. The trouble with us is that we try to find happiness where it does not exist, in transient, impermanent things; we try to find it in the gratification of desire; we seek it in animal pleasure. Happiness lives in giving, in doing, not in getting, in grasping.
Orison Swett Marden
#62. When the mouth cries, I want to see God, the heart has reached its finest moment. Once we have sought and seen God, all other things have a way of finding us.
Gayle D. Erwin
#63. We [people] are made separate by the things we do or do not do. Responsibilities of all types curb us. Desire betrays us. No wound is ever truly petty. And there are so many ways to be locked apart from the rest of the world.
Jill Alexander Essbaum
#64. Some things are in our control, while others are not. We control our opinion, choice, desire, aversion, and, in a word, everything of our own doing. We don't control our body, property, reputation, position, and, in a word, everything not of our own doing.
Ryan Holiday
#65. Ever since we invented fire and the wheel, we've been demonstrating both our ability and our inherent desire to fix things that we don't like about ourselves and our environment.
Aubrey De Grey
#66. To Thetis,
Long overdue, I know, but every often the things we most desire come only after much patience and struggle. That is a human truth, I think. Even Peleus knew that.
-Seth
Richelle Mead
#67. God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one; but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.
Saint Augustine
#68. There are, aren't there, only three things that we can do about death: to desire it, to fear it, or to ignore it.
C.S. Lewis
#69. Down deep in his heart he knew that we all have the same promise of the unlimited help of the Universal Intelligence that guides all things. If we want it, we only have to plug into it with the master keys of desire and trust.
Walter Russell
#70. Remember you dont meditate to get anything, but to get rid of things. We do it, not with desire, but with letting go. If you want anything, you wont find it.
Ajahn Chah
#71. desires," I mean things we feel that we need or want very strongly. There's an element of passion in the experience of desire
Calvin D. Banyan
#72. One of the most important things to do in a church that wants to nurture and administrate prophetic ministry is to dial down the mysticism and the carnal desire to look superspiritual. We need to keep our eyes off people and remain focused on Jesus and His purpose for us.
Mike Bickle
#73. To desire to write poems that endure-we undertake such a goal certain of two things: that in all likelihood we will fail, and if we succeed we will never know it
Donald Hall
#74. In order to be able to make it, you have to put aside the fear of failing and the desire of succeeding. You have to do these things completely and purely without fear, without desire. Because things that we do without lust of result are the purest actions we shall ever take.
Alan Moore
#75. All things come through desire and every sincere prayer is answered. We become like that on which our hearts are fixed. Many
Elbert Hubbard
#76. all the things we think are important really aren't, and he had no time to think about the things that really are. His whole life was going by and he had never contemplated the big, simple truths: loneliness and longing, desire and death.
Amos Oz
#77. Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want, and do.
Emanuel Swedenborg
#78. To be a deep listener, one of the first things we have to do is give up the need and the desire to give advice. Knowing answers does not require stating them; there are times when offering answers is not helpful, as when a person is in the middle of their own learning process.
John Earle
#79. We should be agnostic about those things for which there is no evidence. We should not hold beliefs merely because they gratify our desires for afterlife, immortality, heaven, hell, etc.
Julian Huxley
#80. Let some holy ambition invade our souls, so that, dissatisfied with mediocrity, we shall eagerly desire the highest things and shall toil with all our strength to obtain them, since we may if we wish.
Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola
#81. The things we do without the fear of failure and the desire for success are the purest acts we'll ever do
Alan Moore
#82. Do we desire such knowledge of God? Then two things follow. First, we must recognize how much we lack knowledge of God. We must learn to measure ourselves, not by our knowledge about God, not by our gifts and responsibilities in the church, but by how we pray and what goes on in our hearts.
J.I. Packer
#83. Distortion is part of desire. We always change the things we want.
Siri Hustvedt
#84. We are at the mercy of whoever wields authority over the things we either desire or detest. If you would be free, then, do not wish to have, or avoid, things that other people control, because then you must serve as their slave.
Epictetus
#85. Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside.
Johannes Tauler
#86. The more we recruit from immigrants who bring no personal traditions with them, the more America is going to ignore the things of the spirit. No one whose consuming desire is either for food or for motor-cars is going to care about culture, or even know what it is.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
#87. Through care taken over trends, the desire to be novel and affectation knowledge, we repudiate our art, our instinct, our own way of doing things; it is absurd and stupid
Giuseppe Verdi
#88. To succeed in everything we do, we must have a desire to dream of things some would think are impossible.
Ellen J. Barrier
#89. We must speak to God as a friend speaks to his friend, servant to his master; now asking some favor, now acknowledging our faults, and communicating to Him all that concerns us, our thoughts, our fears, our projects, our desires, and in all things seeking His counsel.
Ignatius Of Loyola
#90. Yahweh: You've been unhappy because you've desired things that cannot be.
Lucifer: That's what desire IS. The need for what we can't have. The need for what's readily available is called greed.
Mike Carey
#91. I mean it's purposeful, even if we don't realize it. The desire to put things in our path, to figure out how to finally leave the behind ... .
Deb Caletti
#93. This is what we don't admit about first kisses: One of the most gratifying things about them is that they are proof, actual proof, that the other person wants to kiss us. We are desirable. We desire. Every kiss that matters contains a recognition at its core.
David Levithan
#94. It should be observed that perfect love of God consists not in those delights, tears and sentiments of devotion that we generally seek, but in a strong determination and keen desire to please God in all things, and to promote His glory.
Teresa Of Avila
#95. Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
Eric Hoffer
#96. Films are big hits when they touch a lot of people. Things are not funny in a vacuum, they're funny because we respond to some personal dislocation, some embarrassment, some humiliation, some pain we've suffered, or some desire we have.
Harold Ramis
#97. People already have a desire for the things Heaven holds. We
simply need to see that these things are not just some fanciful
dream from a song but are a promised future reality.
Vance C. Kessler
#98. Within our control are our own opinions, aspirations, and desires and the demons that distract us from these goals. Outside of our control are such things as what kind of body we have, whether or not we are born into wealth, and how we are regarded by others.
Epictetus
#99. Very often the things we most desire come only after much patience and struggle.
Richelle Mead
#100. If we do not desire to work in order to receive these things, God will be powerless to help us
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