Quotes About Desire

Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own

Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want, and do.

There are two loves that have been deeply rooted in the human race for a long time now: love for dominating everyone, and love for possessing everyone's wealth. If the reins are let out on the first type of love, it rushes on until it wants to be the God of all heaven. If the reins are let out on the second type of love, it rushes on until it wants to be the God of the whole world. All other forms of love for evil are ranked below these two and serve as their army.

Anyone who loves his/her neighbour as himself/herself is after God's heart i.e. he/she shares God's taste. For, it is God's desire that you will always love your neighbour (anybody you meet anywhere) as yourself.

Avarice is reprehensible acquisitiveness, excessive and insatiable desire to acquire or possess more wealth, riches or material gain than one needs or deserves. In other words, avarice is the highest level of greed or greediness. Now listen up, wealth or success is good and worthwhile too. But, you should not quest for it desperately, fraudulently or dubiously. Besides that, genuine wealth or success is meant to be acquired or achieved overtime and not at all overnight. -Emeasoba George

Look here, do you really long for (strongly desire) something that you've never had or enjoyed before? If Yes, then you have to do what you've never done before like going extra mile, taking a leap of faith or calculated risks, mark you. ~Emeasoba George

Merely desiring something is not advisable and encouraging. Yes! you've got to be longing for it (desire it strongly) as well, do quest for it unyieldingly or tirelessly, so that you can be able to surmount any challenge that might show up in the course of pursuing or realizing it. ~Emeasoba George

Note: Oftentimes, what you desire in life is never what you actually deserve. Yes! and that is why, God (Almighty) often denies you your mere desires in order to give you eventually what you really deserve (mark you). -Emeasoba George

Passion is the seed of all aspirations i.e. it (passion) triggers-off all aspirations. I mean, it initiates or causes every aspiration to happen or exist. Or better still, to become a reality. Thus, you've got to be passionate for life. ~Emeasoba George.

The driving force behind every career or profession is nothing else but passion. Yes! it (passion) kindles and rekindles one's desire to pursue and realize a vision or aspiration all over again and again, until he or she decides to retire. ~Emeasoba George

True love is ever God's heart desire i.e. true love is what God greatly wishes for all humans including you. I mean, God longs that you will for life portray true love towards one another/someone else/others.

True love is ever God's heart desire. That is to say, true love is a virtue which God greatly wishes that all humans including YOU should portray. Yes! God earnestly expects us to show true love to one another as long as we live. ~Emeasoba George

Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.

Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.

For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.

I would like to be free, totaly free... free like an aborted child.

How I wish I didn't know anything about myself and this world!

I have always struggled, with the sole intention of ceasing to struggle. Result: zero.

While they were preparing the hemlock, Socrates was learning how to play a new tune on the flute. "What will be the use of that?" he was asked. "To know this tune before dying." If I dare repeat this reply long since trivialized by the handbooks, it is because it seems to me the sole serious justification of any desire to know, whether exercised on the brink of death or at any other moment of existence.

Nothing more to pursue, except the pursuit of nothing.

For a long time—always, in fact—I have known that life here on earth is not what I needed and that I wasn't able to deal with it; for this reason and for this reason alone, I have acquired a touch of spiritual pride, so that my existence seems to me the degradation and the erosion of a psalm.

Not one moment when I have not been conscious of being outside Paradise.

I long to be free—desperately free. Free as the stillborn are free.