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Quotes About Desire

My memories from my childhood are centered on my father's medical conditions alongside my constant desire to understand the principles of the nature around me.
~ Ada Yonath
You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
Tender Ember...Barred and brandedto be forever unlovedI was a tender emberseeking solace from above...
~ Muse, Enigmatic Evolution
I believe that, with anything in life, if you have the patience, desire and passion, you can do whatever you set your mind to.
~ Ed Viesturs
If, like the prophet Noah, you have patience in the distress of the flood, Calamity turns aside, and the desire of a thousand years comes forth.
~ Hafez
Dear God, I pray for patience and I want it right now.
~ Oren Arnold
Very often the things we most desire come only after much patience and struggle.
~ Richelle Mead
There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once.
~ Juvenal
Desire for an idea is like bait. When you're fishing, you have to have patience. You bait your hook, and then you wait. The desire is the bait that pulls those fish in-those ideas.
~ David Lynch
Lust likes to rush, while love hates to wait.
~ Anthony Liccione
I have enough patient to wait for the fulfillment of my wishes.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
I - Want - Peace, I is ego, Want is desire; Remove ego and desire and you have peace.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace.
~ Teresa of Avila
If he cannot stop the mind that seeks after fame and profit, he will spend his life without finding peace.
~ Dogen
Remove the conflict between your desires and your duties, peace will come.
~ Wasif Ali Wasif
When wishes are few, the heart is happy. When craving ends, there is peace.
~ Gautama Buddha
All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.
~ Rumi
The root of all desires is the one desire: to come home, to be at peace.
~ Jean Klein
He who does not desire much more from things than knowledge of them easily makes peace with his soul.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Who except God can give you peace? Has the world ever been able to satisfy the heart?
~ Gerard Majella
Freedom is dearer than bread or joy.
~ Jessie Sampter
He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.
~ Mikhail Lermontov
I contemplated my greed for peace. And I did not seek tranquillity anymore.
~ Ajahn Sumedho