Desire Quotes - Page 163

Every sunset I witness inspires me with the desire to go to West as distant and as fair as that which the sun goes down. Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.

If you meet a girl in whose presence you feel a desire … to do your best, … such a young woman is worthy of your love

The resistance to praying is like the resistance of tightly clenched fists. This image shows a tension, a desire to cling tightly to yourself, a greediness which betrays fear.

Beneath our frantic activities, there's a deep desire to show the world we are worthwhile.

...the word that seems best to summarize the desire of the human heart is 'communion.' ...wherever we look it is communion that we seek.

I am deeply convince that the necessity of prayer, and to pray unceasingly, is not as much based on our desire for God as on God's desire for us. It is God's passionate pursuit of us that calls us to prayer.

Our dependence outweighs our independence, for we are independent only in our desire, while we are dependent on our health, on nature, on society, on everything in us and outside us.

But what was the desire of the flesh beside the desire of the mind?

I don't think women are, by definition, toxic to one another. I think women are simultaneously competitive toward and idolatrous of each other. I thrive on that challenge and that desire.

The twisty nature of psychic attack - are you being attacked, or did you bring this attack on yourself? - speaks to me of an American cultural paradox we all grapple with. There's the rampant litigiousness of our society, and the desire to blame others for our misfortunes.

Those who have a desire to teach while coming to learn should not pose as disciples; they must come as teachers.

Write about the things that attract you. Choose your subjects the way you used to choose your toys: out of desire.

Death! Strange that there should be such a word, and such a thing, and we ever forget it; that one should be living, warm and beautiful, full of hopes, desires and wants, one day, and the next be gone, utterly gone, and forever!

I've always had that overweening desire to be liked by the audience.

When we love there are no barriers, no desires, no needs, no wants.

As a teacher I approach my students purely with the human desire to free them from all scholarly inhibitions, and I tell them, "Painters must speak through paint not through words."

Those who want nothing are apt to forget how many there are who want every thing.

My guess is that she is uncomfortable in such an intransigent world but is unable to live accordingly to her own desire.

I still have the desire to succeed, and I've always felt success is measured by what you've done in the win column, not top 10s.

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal. I've never sought it (though I desire it) and seek it less and less.

Man did not address his inquiries to the earth on which he stood until a remarkably late stage in the development of his desire for knowledge. And the answers he received to the questions, "Where do I come from?", "What is man?", although they made him poorer by a few illusions, gave him in compensation a knowledge of his past that is vaster than he could ever have dreamed. For it emerged that the history of life was his history too.

If one of the brothers, being able ,to maintain himself by his own occupation, does not desire ,a share of the family property, he may be made separate ,by the others receiving a trifle out of his share to live upon.

[To be an artist,] this desire to conquer all with images.

I didn't know how I was going to get to the Olympics, and in the beginning, I didn't really care. And that was the best part, because my desire exposed me to so many different sports, and in all of them, I always dedicated my best effort because I knew that's what it was going to take to become an Olympian.

Desire is always followed by boredom. And only love can defeat boredom. Love with a capital L; we all dream of it.