Quotes About Desire

Being a servant of God means striving to align my will to that of the Master. I desire to unify my will with God's will within my own life and to delight in that unification. Rabbi Gamliel used to say: "Do His will as if it were your will that He may do your will as if it were His will.

WHEN SOMEONE SEES his neighbor acquiring some worldly property, whether some kind of food or clothing, or a house, or accumulating money, he works hard to get the same, because he thinks, "If my friend has this, I should also have it!" —ORCHOT TZADDIKIM (1540)

We humans have a tendency to always want more. Therefore it is easy to forget to feel grateful and happy with the good that we already have. We should strive to feel a joy that is complete. Lack of joy with what we have is destructive both physically and spiritually.

So often multitudes of people gather around some broken cistern of this world, trying to satisfy their thirst for they know not what. They grumble about their troubles and complain about their lot, but how few of them run to the One who said, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water" (John 7:37–38).

I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

Would you like to hear tonight's specials?" "I think the only thing I'll want to hear is the clink of ice cubes." "That can be arranged, sir.

Most kids grow up wanting to work with animals. There's a good reason for that. The alternative is to work with humans.

She found in him the peace she so desperately sought but never really found in herself.

My heart is dark and ripe as a bruise. An ache hollowing me out. Missing you has no purpose, no point. But still I do.

The more we struggle for life (as pleasure), the more we are actually killing what we love.

I think that people's nature is always to want a better life. So from that, we should not expect human beings to behave for benefit of the rest of nature-of the environment. You can only expect people to help the environment out of their own interest" Proffessor Zheng Zhe

Retailers, especially low-margin retailers, each with a minor market share, cannot afford to entice the public to desire a product. All they can afford to say is: "If you want this product, buy it from me.

The things we have most longed for do not happen; or if they do, it is never at the time nor under the circumstances when they could have made us happiest.

My three addictions of choice are food, love and work.

I ought to have more love before I die. I've not had enough.

It seems natural to define the world around what is sought after, but geopolitics can also be considered in terms of what is not wanted.

I wish to have both things in my life: adventure and comfort.

That's what happens when you've had great success in life—when you've achieved the one goal you always desired. You lose a sense of purpose. Your smallest anxieties fester and magnify. Your fears turn inward, and attach themselves to irrational concerns.

There's such a thing as free will, Tanner. You didn't have to go along with me, unless you want to admit your brain is ruled by your dick. And I didn't get the impression you regretted any of that.

She longed to touch it, to stroke her fingers through that atmosphere, cleaving white billowing clouds and glittering salty seas, until she felt the hard scabbed crust beneath them.

There's a lot of obsession about people's personal ambitions.

I wanted the ideal personal life, but I also wanted to keep rushing off, and that doesn't work, not unless you've got an incredibly understanding partner.

Charlene has a very strong personality and I have no doubt of her desire to get involved in things alongside me.

I'd love personally... this is not an announcement at all, but I would love to see 'Fable 2' on the PC.