Quotes About Desire

Perhaps the greatest illusion was the idea that we cared more for what was going on than they did, that we would pay a higher price, that they would feel the threshold of pain before we did. It was of course an obvious lie; but the principals had, in their desire not to come to real decisions, painted themselves into a corner where lie followed lie.

Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

There is no one on earth more passionate about the winning of the lost than the Holy Spirit. He desires to break the chains of sin from every soul. He is the Spirit of evangelism.

I think I'm greedy, but I'm not greedy for money - I think that can be a burden - I'm greedy for an exciting life.

Tis not unreasonable for me to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.

There is no craving or demand of the human mind more constant and insatiable than that for exercise and employment, and this desire seems the foundation of most of our passions and pursuits.

By the term 'impression', then, I mean all our more lively perceptions when we hear or see or feel or love or hate or desire or will. These are to be distinguished from ideas, which are the fainter perceptions of which we are conscious when we reflect on our impressions.

No existe cualidad de la naturaleza humana que cause errores más fatales en nuestra conducta que la que nos lleva a preferir lo que es presente a lo distante y lo remoto y nos hace desear los objetos más por su situación que por su valor intrínseco.

Conflict through the ages has not been between opposites, but versions of the same state of mind: the desire to control others.

Suppose every photo of me ever taken was an infinitesimal piece? Every magazine ad, every negative, every frame of motion picture film - another tiny molecule of me, stolen away to feed an audience that is *never* satiated. And when someone is fully consumed - vampirized - they move on, still hungry, to pick their next victim by making him or her a star. That's why they're called consumers. ("Red Light")

To accomplish anything extraordinary you must blend desire for the goal with the will to take action to achieve it. This is how you commit to making yourself do what's right, whether you feel like it or not. The key is self-control.

Loving you was the most exquisite form of self destruction

It had never been that addicts don't care whether they lived or died, it was that the feeling you were chasing rested right against the brink and sometimes you just fell over.

Antony wanted to be whole and to experience more progress in his desire for God. The angelic vision corrected his desire for something "better" than what he was doing. It reassured him to continue his pattern of constant integration of work and prayer, mundane as it was.

As we "press forward to what lies ahead," the transformation we desire already "lies within us.

The grass looks greener on the other side of the fence because you don't have to mow it. - David L. Bonar, First said by me circ. September 26, 1992 (about age 50).

debemos solamente desear y elegir "lo que más nos conduce al fin para el que hemos sido creados". La meta y el fin de nuestra vida es una relación de amor con Dios.

Many people feel they are missing someone

perhaps the will to please leads people to crime as often as evil or greed does. People want to fit in and do well, and they do indescribably stupid things because of it. Is

Anhelamos marcharnos lejos y quedarnos en casa al mismo tiempo.

Who knows, perhaps the will to please leads people to crime as often as evil or greed does. People want to fit in and do well, and they do indescribably stupid things

Of course! That was it! I didn't need a tattoo. What I needed was something a lot less expensive and considerably less painful. What I needed was a Playboy. Guys who are gay do not keep Playboy magazines in their bedrooms.

You could reach for him, and sometimes you would grab hold of him. But sometimes all you would grab hold of was a reflection of a reflection in a revolving door.

For those who like that sort of thing, that is the sort of thing they like.