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Quotes About Desire

Half of my heart's got a real good imagination, half of my heart's got you. . .Half of my hearts got a right mind to tell you that half of my heart won't do.
~ John Mayer
Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
~ Marquis de Sade
Nothing was ever created by a human being that was not first created in the imagination through desire and then transformed into reality through concentration.
~ Napoleon Hill
Imagination comes of not having things.
~ LeRoy Neiman
Imagination doesn't always make you long for what you cannot have, but rather thrive in what you do not have.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
I had a pretty sexual imagination for a kid.
~ Janet Jackson
Of the present state, whatever it be, we feel and are forced to confess the misery; yet when the same state is again at a distance, imagination paints it as desirable.
~ Samuel Johnson
We are poor, indeed, when we have no half-wishes left us. The heart and the imagination close the shutters the instant they are gone.
~ Walter Savage Landor
Beauty is equal parts flesh and imagination: we imbue it with our dreams, saturate it with our longings.
~ Nancy Etcoff
Once an angel said to the dreamer, "You will get whatever you want in your life in this world and from this world".
~ Newpostcard
What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
The wonder of Independence is that it encourages open minds and the desire to improve.
~ Monty Roberts
Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species.
~ C. S. Lewis
How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence.
~ Hermann Hesse
But if objects for gratitude and admiration are our desire, do they not present themselves every hour to our eyes?
~ Thomas Paine
When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
~ Paulo Coelho
When your will is God's will, you will have your will.
~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
~ Alexander Pushkin
Having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means to the realization of the end.
~ Thomas Troward
Before you can make a dream come true, you must first have one.
~ Ronald McNair
You've got to follow that dream, wherever that dream may lead.
~ Elvis Presley
People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.
~ Emma Goldman
You get whatever you expect to get. The only question is. What do you want?
~ Mark Victor Hansen
Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.
~ Vince Lombardi Jr.