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Quotes About Desire

Fulfillment of desire taken to extremes doesn't necessarily make us happy. It tends to make us rather cynical.
~ Frederick Lenz
In the beginning what is necessary is to feel that there is something worthwhile to be attained otherwise we won't do it.
~ Frederick Lenz
The spirit longs for the world of light from which it came. That longing causes something to happen. It causes the being to grow into light.
~ Frederick Lenz
It's easy to feel equal to wanting. It's rare to feel equal to having.
~ Helen Humphreys
I just wanted to perform, to sing, dance and act.
~ Jennifer Ellison
I'm on a higher plane with brain with a flame, feel the fire, desire the same.
~ Kool Moe Dee
Do not desire to hear about the misfortunes of those who oppose you. For those who listen to such speech later reap the fruits of their evil intention.
~ Marcus Eremita
Choose, but don't want.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
I wanted to see what was going on in the world. I sometimes think I overwished.
~ Tom Brokaw
If I had a rain prayer or a rain dance I could do, I would do it.
~ Tom Vilsack
Desire is the absurdity that holds open the infinity of possibility.
~ Wendy Farley
There is only one romance the Soul's.
~ William Butler Yeats
God send everyone their heart's desire!
~ William Shakespeare
We still and always want waking.
~ Annie Dillard
What in the world would I sing for if I had it all?
~ Dave Matthews
And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of the way and let them have it.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
You can fail at what you don't want, so you might as well try what you do want.
~ Jim Carrey
If you start out by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work toward getting it.
~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Write what you want, everything else is gravy
~ Padraic Gyatt
You get used to... what you want to get used to.
~ Steven Lyle Jordan
I want fame now, not after I'm dead.
~ Morrissey