True Desires Quotes

#1. Small, deliberate actions inspired by your true desires create a life you love.

Danielle LaPorte

#2. For a consumer society thrives by stoking unquenchable desires into unsustainable cravings and fanning them with an inflated rage for rights. The restlessness it creates by providing false satisfactions and deadening true desires simultaneously fuels the economy and destroys happiness.

Os Guinness

#3. Change is the most beneficial power available to you, simply change the things you don't like, replacing them with your true desires.

Steven Redhead

#4. Take notice of those intuitive whispers from the heart, they represent your true desires.

Steven Redhead

#5. Perhaps I was drawn to stories in which people found their true desires because I was a stranger to myself.

Alice Hoffman

#6. Singleness would be recognized as a vital stage of the journey to maturation, a time to learn about who we are, to learn responsibility and self-sufficiency, to identify our true desires, and to confront our inner strengths and demons.

Harville Hendrix

#7. If you're as intelligent as I think, you'll back away and give him time to examine his true desires. He's so busy fulfilling everyone else's; he has no idea what he wants."
"I've been under the impression that he wanted me," Billie said coldly, "or I wouldn't be here.

Shelby Reed

#8. One of the greatest motivators is desire. If the desire is strong enough you will do whatever it takes to achieve. Just connect your actions with your true desires.

Ralph Marston

#9. every second I spend sitting around feeling distant from my true desires, avoiding the world and being afraid to engage it, is a second that I'm forfeiting the biggest gift of all: my time here in this life.

Mark Manson

#10. It takes practice to hear your true desires. Your passion will often come as a whisper or serendipitous event that reminds you of what's important and what makes you happy.

Eckhart Tolle

#11. Start living by taking back the control of your life now! Create a life more in tune with your true desires.

Steven Redhead

#12. Often, introverts spend so much time trying to do as the extroverts do that we never ask ourselves what we really want. After years of denying our true desires, it can be difficult to separate what we want from what the world tells us to want.

Michaela Chung

#13. Communication within the couple includes the open, clear, and honest sharing of feelings, desires, thoughts, interests, and creative ideas. It is in this sharing of the deepest parts of ourselves with another that true intimacy in the relationship is cultivated.

John Friend

#14. It is a happy circumstance that when nature gives us true burning desires, she also gives us the means to satisfy them. Those who want to win and lack skill can get someone with skill to help them.

Ed Seykota

#15. A true pilgrimage requires letting go of the very things most people try to hold onto. In seeking after what the soul desires, we become pilgrims with no home but the path the soul would have us follow.

Michael Meade

#16. I guess what they say is true - sometimes you have to smack up against a brick wall before you can admit it's time to change or die. For me the death was an emotional one. It's taken me this long to figure out I was killing myself by shutting off my true feelings and desires.

Claire Thompson

#17. You don't become the person you wish to become; you become the person you choose to become. True leadership does not come true wishes; it comes by choices!

Israelmore Ayivor

#18. Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires
seems true. Everything that is not puts us into a rage.

Andre Maurois

#19. Nobody, I believe, will deny, that we are to form our judgment of the true nature of the human mind, not from sloth and stupidity of the most degenerate and vilest of men, but from the sentiments and fervent desires of the best and wisest of the species.

Robert B. Leighton

#20. I learnt to identify the false love from true ones by their fruits, humbleness and how free they were from wordily desires.

Santosh Avvannavar

#21. 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

#22. It's in that place that we're reminded that true life comes when we're willing to admit that we've reached the end of ourselves, we've given up, we've let go, we're willing to die to all of our desires to figure it out and be in control. We lose our life, only to find it.

Rob Bell

#23. If you can dream it, it is possible to achieve it.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. The notion that everyone would like Christianity to be true, and therefore all atheists are brave men who have accepted the defeat of all their deepest desires, is simply impudent nonsense.

C.S. Lewis

#25. The truly patient man neither complains of his hard lot nor desires to be pitied by others. He speaks of his sufferings in a natural, true, and sincere way, without murmuring, complaining, or exaggerating them.

Francis De Sales

#26. All friends have secrets. We're like three-dimensional shapes on paper; we all have hidden sides. And there's some secrets we don't even reveal to ourselves.

Nenia Campbell

#27. Think of it." Now he is speaking to you, no one but you. "It may not matter what we want for science, or what we think is ethical. All we must do is provide the right environment, and let the heart do what it desires. The heart wants to beat.

Stephen Kiernan

#28. 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

#29. Let us remember that desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions. In addition, it is our actions and our desires that cause us to become something, whether a true friend, a gifted teacher, or one who has qualified for eternal life.

Dallin H. Oaks

#30. Despite his persecutions, Mr. [Upton] Sinclair reveals himself in Money Writes! to be an enviable man. Always the thing he desires to believe is the thing he feels he knows to be true.

Dorothy Parker

#31. An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's own prejudices, frames of reference and desires so as to experience as far as possible the speaker's world from the inside, step in inside his or her shoes.

M. Scott Peck

#32. No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are true can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

Victor Hugo

#33. The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided and shaped by my text, but then transformed, elucidated, expanded, edited, and clarified by their own experience, their own desires, their own hopes and fears.

Orson Scott Card

#34. Christ can be trusted to keep His Word that He will exchange our drab existence for joyous living, abundant life! And while true love, total acceptance, and complete security are rare in our frantic world, the biblical evidence that our desires in these areas will be fulfilled in Christ is abundant.

Josh McDowell

#35. When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires.

Jeanette Winterson

#36. What you wish to do, do it now.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. She knows exactly what I like and what it does to me. She worships my body in its entirety and I allow it - I crave it.

A.R. Von

#40. As anyone who regularly reads newspapers or true-crime books knows, a significant percentage of violent crime, from kidnappings to shooting sprees, is the result of the frustrated sexual impulses and desires of males. By socializing guys like Sasha, Mystery and I were making the world a safer place.

Neil Strauss

#41. 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

#42. When we're not true to our thoughts and not true to the feelings we have deep inside, we find ourselves unhappy. Be courageous enough to align your life with your feelings, desires, and sense of purpose.

Steve Maraboli

#43. But love? Who can say what is just a mire of dark needs and desires, and what is true love? Does such a thing exist? Can't it be that if we say, 'I love you' to another person and know that we mean it, then that is love, regardless of the motive?

John Ajvide Lindqvist

#44. A man's calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.

John Eldredge

#45. True peacefulness comes from abandoning the illustion that satisfying desires brings pleasure.

Joan Z. Borysenko

#46. She was no malleable, since frigid, substance upon which desires might be executed; she was not a true prostitute for she was the object on which men prostituted themselves.

Angela Carter

#47. You have all you need, to be all that you want.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#48. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgement shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision.

Charlotte Bronte

#49. 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

#50. Idols aren't just stone statues. No, idols are the thoughts, desires, longings, and expectations that we worship in the place of the true God. Idols cause us to ignore the true God in search of what we think we need.

Elyse Fitzpatrick

#51. By skilfully training a hunting animal, by closely associating with it, by identifying with it, you might be allowed to experience all your vital, sincere desires, even your most bloodthirsty ones, in total innocence. You could be true to yourself.

Helen Macdonald

#52. Idols aren't stone statues. They are thoughts, desires, and longings that we worship in the place of the true God

Elyse Fitzpatrick

#53. Anger, [Evagrius] wrote, is given to us by God to help us confront true evil. We err when we use it casually, against other people, to gratify our own desires for power or control.

Kathleen Norris

#54. the smattering of candles about the dark room gave the illusion of dancing in starlight. The moment made her believe that if she spoke her desires aloud, they might actually come true.

Sarah MacLean

#55. Not every one of our desires can be immediately gratified. We've got to learn to wait patiently for our dreams to come true, especially on the path we've chosen.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#56. Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts.

David Seabury

#57. Every man, who desires to become a true father, has to look continually to the Lord, that he might learn of Him how to relate to his own children

Sunday Adelaja

#58. It takes a long while for a director to cease thinking in terms of the result he desires and instead concentrate on discovering the source of energy in the actor from which true impulses arise.

Peter Brook

#59. Consider your deepest, most secret desires for one moment. Ask yourself, "Where did this desire come from?" If the thought of fulfilling that desire brings you joy, then this is a clue that it is a true desire and your divine assignment. A

Doreen Virtue

#60. True freedom is the choice to create the desires one believes in.

Steven Redhead

#61. All your heart's desire will come true in due time.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#62. Never be in thrall to anyone but your own wants and desires, because only you can make yourself happy. Fly your own flag, and be true to it. Your soul is the true captain.

Billy Idol

#63. If you surrender your free will, then someone is bound to take the reins and lead you to a place that is not of your own true desire.

Steven Redhead

#64. Pruning is strategic. It is directional and forward-looking. It is intentional toward a vision, desires, and objectives that have been clearly defined and are measurable. If you have that, you know what a rose is, and pruning will help you get one of true beauty.

Henry Cloud

#65. If it's true that God gives you the desires of your heart, then it is imperative that you know your desires and have the courage to communicate them. It is God who places the desires of your life in your heart.

Lisa Jimenez

#66. When you honor your true inner desires, and don't become sexually involved when you don't really want it, you have the control of your love life and you are at peace
and harmony with yourself.

Linda Alfiori

#67. Collecting expresses a free-floating desire that attaches and re-attaches itself - it is a succession of desires. The true collector is in the grip not of what is collected but of collecting.

Susan Sontag

#68. We stand poised on the brink of becoming true cyborgs, of having inorganic features that are inseparable from our bodies, features that modify our abilities, desires, personalities and identities.

Yuval Noah Harari

#69. So if a person produces an object on command, Humboldt wrote, we may admire what he did but we will despise what he is, not a true human being who acts in his own impulses and desires.

Noam Chomsky

#70. The moment we see beyond our personal desires to be felt sympathy for, that is the time we can actually start the journey to that final destination of true forgiveness.

Stephen Richards

#71. She wanted to get some personal profit out of things, and she rejected as useless all that did not contribute to the immediate desires of her heart, being of a temperament more sentimental than artistic, looking for emotions, not landscapes.

Gustave Flaubert

#72. You will find your true spirit when you lose your egocentric, self-centered desires and fill your mind with pure love and non-judgmental thoughts.

Debasish Mridha

#73. The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse - it will not submit to the mold of flattery.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#74. Is it not true that your gloominess and bad temper are due to your lack of determination in breaking the subtle snares laid by your own disordered desires? The daily examination of conscience is an indispensible help if we are to follow our Lord with sincerity of heart and integrity of life.

Josemaria Escriva

#75. What I am saying is, 'Know the science'. Know what is Soul (The True Self) and Non-Soul (Everything other than the Soul). Upon knowing this, all desires will vanish.

Dada Bhagwan

#76. Change your life by following the desires of your heart, aiming to achieve your true bliss; creating your own part of heaven here on earth.

Steven Redhead

#77. Every soul needs a touch of erotic love. A deep, unconditional love is what every heart truly desires. True love is passionately erotic.

Salil Jha

#78. Unless you allow yourself to seek your inner depths; the surfacial affairs of life shall always engross you in mundane Routines ... Arise and stand apart ... for true growth ...

Dinesh Kumar

#79. Dreams, my mother always told me, represend part of our unconsciousness
the place where we store the true parts of our soul, away from the rest of the world. From Breena quoting her mother in Bitter Frost

Kailin Gow

#80. You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also his desires.

Democritus

#81. That's the secret of 'True Blood' - all the creatures that roam Bon Temps become a metaphor for our insatiable lusts and inner desires. Humans craving what they can't have and those secret appetites transforming them into beasts, or even killers.

Rob Sheffield

#82. When I pray, "Your kingdom come," I am saying to God's Holy Spirit, "Spirit of Christ within me, take control and do what You will for Your glory." A true child of God won't be preoccupied with his own plans and desires but with the determinate program of God, revealed in the person of Jesus Christ.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#83. Adventures, I reflected, are all very fine but a certain amount of civilised comfort forms the true kernel of our desires.

K.W. Jeter

#84. Contentment is the foundation of true Happiness. The Happiness that comes from fulfilling desires can never be permanent.-RVM

R.v.m.

#85. True hunger was a weapon stronger
than any of his abstract desires. It's what toppled countries and made men desperate.

Diana Peterfreund

#86. The yogi offers his labyrinthine human longings to a monotheistic bonfire dedicated to the unparalleled God. This is indeed the true yogic fire ceremony, in which all past and present desires are fuel consumed by love divine.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#87. Bowing is a very serious practice. You should be prepared to bow, even in your last moment. even though it is impossible to get rid of our self-centered desires, we have to do it. Our true nature wants us to.

Shunryu Suzuki

#88. When we heed the call of our deepest desires, we fulfill our true destinies.

Deepak Chopra

#89. The true asset before any human being on this planet are... Enthusiasm & Will... with these everything comes from nothingness & devoid of them everything perishes to nothingness...

Dinesh Kumar

#90. When desire meets desire, the stronger one survives. Fulfill your desires! The predator will eat the prey. Our world is a cruel and dirty place ... but that's what makes it so beautiful! Hell is the true paradise!

Naoyuki Ochiai

#91. In these pages your imaginations, your desires, your passions are given life; Thoughts take shape that turn into dreams and our aspirations all start with a dream. Reading is where those dreams really can come true over and over again.

Rebecca West

#92. Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my superfluous and unnecessary desires, I subdue my proud and wanton will and chastise it with obedience, and with God's help I attain freedom of spirit and with it spiritual joy.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#93. What your heart desires is not too good to be true. It is good enough to be true.

Alan Cohen

#94. Fairytales work on two levels. On a conscious level, they are stories of true love and triumph and overcoming difficult odds and so are pleasurable to read. But they work on a deeper and symbolic level in that they play out our universal psychological dramas and hidden desires and fears.

Kate Forsyth