Desire Quotes - Page 128

I had a strong desire to write and some free time.

Desire can be as fragile as it is sudden.

There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.

We label judges with having the meanest motives, and yet we desire that our reputation and fame should depend upon the judgment of men, who are all, either from their jealousy or preoccupation or want of intelligence, opposed to us - and yet despite their bias, just for the sake of making these men decide in our favor, we peril in so many ways both our peace and our life.

We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire.

Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.

Before we passionately desire a thing, we should examine the happiness of its possessor.

Were we perfectly acquainted with the object, we should never passionately desire it.

If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine; if thy labor got it, let thy wisdom keep it; if oppression found it, let repentance restore it; if thy parent left it, let thy virtues deserve it; so shall thy honor be safer, better and cheaper.

If thou desire not to be poor, desire not to be too rich. He is rich, not that possesses much, but he that covets no more; and he is poor, not that enjoys little, but he that wants too much. The contented mind wants nothing which it hath not; the covetous mind wants, not only what it hath not, but likewise what it hath.

I am a New Yorker. I like New York. And I like cities. And it's not my desire to make New York more suburban. I would personally just like to vet each person.

There's so much of a desire in the entertainment industry for newness, a desire to build somebody up and then treat them as old news within six months. I think you'd be naive if you didn't try to hold on to your own way of doing things.

Politics of all sorts, I confess, are far beyond my limited powers of comprehension. Those of this country as far as I have been able to observe, resolve themselves into two great motives. The aristocratic desire of elevation and separation, and the democratic desire of demolishing and levelling.

People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.

Some say that you should not want money at all because the desire for money is materialistic and not Spiritual. But we want you to remember that you are here in this very physical world where Spirit has materialized. You cannot separate yourself from the aspect of yourself that is Spiritual, and while you are here in these bodies you cannot separate yourselves from that which is physical or material. All of the magnificent things of a physical nature that are surrounding you are Spiritual in nature.

A decision is the focusing of the Energy of desire, and the decision point happens when the desire is powerful enough.

This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter

Learn to distinguish what you can and can't control. Within our control are our own opinions, aspirations, desires and the things that repel us. They are directly subject to our influence.

Longing, it may be, is the gift no other gift supplies.

All the concessions we make to Eros are holes in our desire for the absolute.

The paradox of romantic love -- that what one possesses, one can no longer desire -- was at work.

If the iron is hot, I desire to believe it is hot, and if it is cool, I desire to believe it is cool.

Reason is no match for desire: when desire is purely and powerfully felt, it becomes a kind of reason of its own.

Picture in your mind the able, earnest, useful person you desire to be, and the thought you hold is hourly transforming you into that particular individual you so admire

There is nothing that I'd love to do more than negotiate with Palestinians. This is my desire. This is my dream. This is my mission.