Quotes About Desire

Faith isn't for the faint of heart. Both courage and naïveté are required. To grasp its art, you must look the other way when all the omens seem to say you will nog get what you desire, so, though it may be a cliché I put my faith in fire.

As Jonathan Edwards observed a long time ago, we act on our strongest motive. If our strongest motive, our deepest desire, is to know God, it will generate the discipline that we need to pursue this, because we will want to know God more than anything else. If this is not our strongest motive, we will find ourselves with multiple, alternative, and competing foci.

As Jonathan Edwards observed a long time ago, we act on our strongest motive. If our strongest motive, our deepest desire, is to know God, it will generate the discipline that we need to pursue this, because we will want to know God more than anything else. If this is not our strongest motive, we will find ourselves with multiple, alternative, and competing foci. These will inevitably distract us.

The art of love? It's knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.

Could it be that they were sick enough at this point of their own lives to get worked up about those of others? That's always the case. We live under the dictates of others' desires. Natalie and François didn't want to become a TV series for their crowd. For the moment, they loved the idea of being two people alone in the world, in the most perfect cliché of romantic schmaltzy serenity.

ce que l'on veut est moins important que ce que l'on peut avoir.

Ils s'échappèrent comme deux voleurs de beauté.

Although prey to the dictates of physical desire, he remained no less a romantic man, believing that the realm of women could be shrunk to one woman.

Quería seguirlo en la sombra, y quería seguirlo en la

Elle veut que personne ne l'aime. Personne, sauf elle.

Neviens neklaus?s cilv?kos, kuri apgalvo, ka v?las b?t vieni. V?lme p?c vienatnes noteikti ir slim?ga tieksme.

Neviena kaisl?ba nevar beigties ne ar ko citu k? vien tra??diju.

Il faut avoir peur de perdre les choses pour les aimer passionnément.

Él quería ser como ellos, escapar de la dictadura del sentimiento.

Durant toutes ces années, les femmes se reposaient dans l'arrière-chambre de son excitation . Il les regardait, les admirait, mais ne les désirait pas. Enfin, soyons francs, quand Hector pensait ne pas désirer les femmes, il pensait surtout qu'il ne pouvait susciter le désir en elles.

He still felt just as light-headed, and a loop of the scene of the kiss kept playing in his head. It was already a cult film in his memory. Finally he opened the door to his apartment and found his living room much too small in comparison with his appetite for living.

Pero llega un momento en que lo que queremos importa menos que lo que podemos conseguir.

We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?

It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.

Those who surrender obey. But not all who obey surrender. It is quite easy to obey God for the wrong reasons. What God desires is submission of our heart and will, not simply compliance in our behavior.

But God wants something better than fig leaves for us. God wants us to be aware of our helplessness so we can know that we need Divine help. God's deepest desire for us is to replace our fig leaves with garments of durability and beauty (Genesis 3:21).

While the first revelation of our calling is in the givens of our being, it is important to note that God's will for us does not always grow naturally out of our wishes.

Thomas Merton puts it this way: "Life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire."2

When one has the means of getting everything, one winds up giving in to personal demons.