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Quotes About Desire

Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
~ Patti Smith
Someone has somewhere commented on the fact that millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
~ Susan Ertz
Light up the fire of love inside and blaze the thoughts away.
~ Rumi
God is in my head, but the devil is in my pants.
~ Jonathan Winters
There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
~ Carl Sandburg
If you don't have a dream, there is no way to make one come true.
~ Steven Tyler
Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.
~ Diane Arbus
know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it.
~ Nora Roberts, Morrigan's Cross
Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
It's unfulfilled dreams that keep you alive.
~ Robert H. Schuller
The minute you begin to do what you really want to do, it's really a different kind of life.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
It is not important to be successful at what you undertake, but rather to undertake what you'd like to succeed at.
~ Wajdi Mouawad
What is the world full of? It is full of things that arise, persist, and cease. Grasp and cling to them, and they produce suffering. Don't grasp and cling to them, and they do not produce suffering.
~ Buddhadasa
Some people underestimate how erotic it is to be understood.
~ Mary Rakow
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
~ James M. Barrie
Story is a yearning meeting an obstacle.
~ Robert Olen Butler
Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.
~ Margaret Oliphant
Goals are like magnets. They'll attract the things that make them come true.
~ Tony Robbins
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.
~ Jim Rohn
As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
It's a town full of losers And I'm pulling out of here to win.
~ Bruce Springsteen
Be careful about wanting what others have. There is always a price. Perhaps God didn't give it to you, because He knew you wouldn't be able to pay it.
~ Yasmin Mogahed
Inspiration gives you a desire. Decision makes it an intention. Action makes it real.
~ Joe Vitale
Desire presses ever forward unsubdued.
~ Sigmund Freud