Desires Quotes
Desires Quote of the day
That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
When the mind is full of worldly desires, it is their very nature to confuse the mind. Withdraw the mind from outer things and turn it inwards.
I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.
She doesn't understand that doors, walls, fences, ceilings - they're helpless to keep out what determinedly desires to get in.
You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs.
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.
I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?
Only God is capable of telling us what our rights and needs are. You have to surrender that right to Him.
Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires.
Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies.
What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.
One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.
Even the most pragmatic person fell victim at times to a longing for something other.
There is only what you want and what happens. There is only grabbing on and holding tight in the darkness.
Guilt can interfere with our desires to move forward, to heal properly and to become a person who has the mental health and means of proper recompense.
When a man, however passively, becomes an obstacle to the fulfillment of a woman's desires, he becomes an odious thing in her eyes, - or will, given time enough.
Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.
A carpet of despair which lay underneath the levels of fury.
Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing.
It doesn’t take objectivity to know what you want, and you’re not objective enough to know what you need.
You should have only one intense desire within yourself: Have I become the spirit? Have I achieved my ultimate? Have I risen above the worldly desires?
...and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires
Experiencing life with your whole heart will not only bring more of what you desire but often it will surpass what you could have imagined!
