Quotes About Desire

Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little.

Don't ruin the things you have by wanting what you don't have, but realize that they too are things you once did wish for.

Nature's wealth is limited and easy to acquire; but the wealth of vain fancies recedes to an infinite distance.

Nichts genügt dem, für den genug zu wenig ist.

Mercy I desire and not sacrifice", he tells them, quoting the prophet Hosea (6:6), thus giving them their subject for meditation. The

God desires the sinner to turn away from the darkness of his own nothingness and void and come to himself, to draw life from his life. Sin is grounded in an illusion concerning my own alleged greatness and worth in my own eyes. Repentance is grounded, not in a desire to abase myself, but in a clear understanding and a profound conviction of my great worth in the eyes of God.

Yes, Mr Latimer, most of us go through life without knowing what we want of it. But Dimitrios, you know, was not like that. Dimitrios knew exactly what he wanted. He wanted money and he wanted power.

Some say that one-sided love is better than none, but like half a loaf of bread, it is likely to grow hard and moldy sooner.

All men and all women have their secret gardens, whose gates they guard against the profane invasion of the vulgar crowd. These are visual pictures of what they would do if they could do as they pleased. The lucky ones find the right time, place, and person, and get to do it, while the rest must wander wistfully outside their own walls.

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

We are whole creatures in potential, and the true purpose of desire is to unfold that wholeness, to become what we can be.

Desear algo no es suficiente. El deseo intrínsecamente debe contener dar de alguna manera, para ceder el paso al fluir mayor.

On Saturday, he ate through one piece of chocolate cake, one ice-cream cone, one pickle, one slice of Swiss cheese, one slice of salami, one lollipop, one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcake, and one slice of watermelon That night he had a stomach ache.

Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down

also coveted Pattie because she belonged to a powerful man who seemed to have everything I wanted—amazing cars, an incredible career, and a beautiful wife.

Something more profound also happened when I got this guitar. As soon as I got it, I suddenly didn't want it anymore. This phenomenon was to rear its head throughout my life and cause many difficulties.

I don't want to be famous. I want to be secure. I don't want the world. I just want a piece of it. I want people to remember Eric Davis.

A good marriage produced affection and physical desire as naturally and inevitably as trees grew. Love was simply the fruit, which they confused with the seed.

To desire only happiness in a world undoubtedly tragic is to become inauthentic.

I love the excesses of beauty, there is never enough sunlight in the world I will live in, never enough room for love.

Your Father's greatest desire for you is that you would be like Him, that you would be holy. He cares more about your transformation than your happiness, more about your spiritual maturity than your comfort.

Surely Satan realizes that by pulling fathers from their children he can twist their understanding of God as a Father. And if he can mess up our view of God, he can harm our desire to connect with God. The enemy knows that God desires for you to view Him as Father.

Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.