Desire Quotes - Page 150

A concern for doctrinal purity should always be based on love of the Lord, not a desire to express spiritual pride.

I truly believe that if someone is believing a lie about who they are right now, that God's desire for you is to be set free from that once and for all. Ask him to show you where that false identity is coming from. Ask him to show you how differently he sees you than how you view yourself.

You want to be a good person, don't you, Pat?' I nod. I cry. I do want to be a good person, I really do. 'I'm going to up your meds,' Dr. Patel tells me. 'You might feel a little sluggish, but it should help to curb your violent outbursts. You need to know it's your actions that will make you a good person, not desire.

Poor people are as much in danger from an inordinate desire towards the wealth of the world as rich from an inordinate delight in it.

I desire a person, not a gender.

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.

I am fortunate in that I am motivated to do what I do by just a really goofy desire to do it. Maybe I have demons that are hidden away someplace, and I'll discover mine someday.

I have a strong desire to connect. And so when I don't get that, I leave that situation feeling particularly wounded.

The desire to create literature leads to frights, grunts, and coy looks.

Sorrow also fulfills Desire. Example: the Soaps.

Habit keeps my life going, with occasional pushes from desire.

I am kept in bondage by the moles of my beloved.

The cues that arouse desire are changed by Fashion, but feel like the proddings of Nature.

Rebuttals never alter desire.

Yearning wants mostly to perpetuate itself.

I dream of vague shapes that hint of my heart's desire.

Dreams surround our desires with ugliness and dread.

When sages commend excess, Desire is sick.

In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing.

When I try to portray to myself my heart's desire, nothing happens.

Minds are cluttered from the age of six with the values of others-values which bear little relation to their own private capacities, needs and desires.

If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are moved by every wind that blows and a chance word or scene that that word may convey to us.

I get about five memoirs per week in my mailbox, and few of them inspire anything but a desire to pick up the channel changer.

A person could last a long while without touch, but once someone had experienced the comfort, joy, and sheer relief of another human body close, the desire to experience that again was hard to deny.

What is desire but the hard wire argument given to the mind's unstoppable mouth