Quotes About Desire

Fly the pleasure that bites tomorrow.

Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.

You cannot escape the results of your thoughts.... Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.

Wouldst thou both eat they cake and have it?

Go, little letter, apace, apace, Fly; Fly to the light in the valley below - Tell my wish to her dewy blue eye.

Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.

A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may deem it, which, if it affects our real interest or happiness, we may not lay before God and be sure of sympathy. His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied the man.

Many pray with their lips for that for which their hearts have no desire.

Many words do not a good prayer make; what counts is the heartfelt desire to commune with God, and the faith to back it up.

Ye have not, because ye ask not.

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss.

Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may deem it, which if it affects our real interest or happiness, we may not lay before God and be sure of sympathy. His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied man.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

All progress is based upon the universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

What men want is not knowledge, but certainty.

The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.

One bliss for which there is no match is when you itch to up and scratch.

Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.

When people don't want to come, nothing will stop them.

Tis better than riches To scratch when it itches.

An indecent mind is a perpetual feast.

Don't fool yourself that you are going to have it all. You are not. Psychologically, having it all is not even a valid concept. The marvelous thing about human beings is that we are perpetually reaching for the stars. The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all.

What has always made a hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his heaven.