Quotes About Desire

My mom bought me a white Strat, but that wasn't what I wanted, so I went to a guitar store in Cleveland and - the guy told me it was a really good deal - made an even swap for a blue Teisco Del Ray. I loved that guitar and used it a bunch.

But the part of ourselves we hate the most is our longing to be wanted and enjoyed.

God is not bound by time, nor is our story. We desperately want our situation to be solved. We want resolution. But, God unfolds the plot in His own time. It is in our months or years of waiting that our story comes to maturity. It is over a lifetime of stories that he turns our desire toward Him.

Our minds sometimes see what our hearts wish were true.

I think my strength comes from being an insane drunk. Near death. Wanting death like a lover every day for years. My talent comes from madness - having survived madness.

I was a degenerate, with an insatiable capacity for perversion. Incapable of change. I could do anything except not drink.

But such niggling distractions on the periphery matter little once you've set your sights so squarely on what you want most. By

Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous.

Natural happiness is what we get when we get what we wanted, and synthetic happiness is what we make when we don't get what we wanted. In our society, we have a strong belief that synthetic happiness is of an inferior kind.

I had this urge to give Andrea a kiss!

wish I had a penguin. Penguins are cool. But my parents won't get me one because they live in Antarctica. Penguins, that is. Not my parents. My parents live at home with me. "EEEEEEEK!" screamed this

I'll die without junk food.

A limited offer has unlimited appeal.

If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever.

If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever.

Yes, but everybody else gets more than us.

The difference between love and sex is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.

No one can live without delight," writes Peter Kreeft, "and that is why a man, deprived of spiritual joy goes over to carnal pleasures.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.7 — C. S. Lewis

As a pastor, I have performed many funerals over the years. It is in these tragic moments in peoples' lives that they most clearly articulate their ideas of heaven. And I learn again and again that the desire for heaven is intense and universal, but our understanding of heaven is weak and muddled.

An obvious challenge people face is that they don't know what they want. They're far too busy justifying what they think they need. They haven't learned to be brutally honest with themselves and others. They're still living in fear. Learning to clarify what you want without justification or apology is vital to going 10x since 10x is based on want, not need.

I say unto you that if you desire the mysteries of the Kingdom provide for him food & raiment & whatsoever thing he needeth to accomplish the work which I have commanded him.

And memory insists on pining For places it never went, As if life would be happier Just by being different.