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Quotes About Desire

Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
~ John Locke
To desire a state is to have it.
~ Neville Goddard
Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
~ Jack London
When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
~ Dallas Willard
We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.
~ Marcel Proust
We should see the desire for neatness, the desire for sharp impressions, as a desire in art.
~ Eli Siegel
From the desert I come to thee, On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire.
~ Bayard Taylor
Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
~ Walter Scott
What we insistently desire, over time, is what we become.
~ Neal A. Maxwell
Giving up an addiction means re-programming that part of your brain that makes you restless and unhappy if a desire is not realized.
~ Ken Keyes Jr.
When I desire you a part of me is gone.
~ Anne Carson
They say 'He cannot be found'. Something that cannot be 'found' is what I desire.
~ Rumi
The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.
~ Margaret Atwood
Poor people have the desire to prosper but their mindset stop them.
~ Matthew Ashimolowo
Everything you desire is outside your comfort zone - otherwise, you would already have it.
~ Zan Perrion
Every desire of your body is holy; Every desire of your body is Holy.
~ Hafez
If you are influenced by the opinions of others, you will have no DESIRE of your own.
~ Napoleon Hill
The impulse of modern art was this desire to destroy beauty.
~ Barnett Newman
You wouldn't desire something if you didn't have the talent to carry it out.
~ Napoleon Hill
Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
~ Sam Abell
You feel the intense desire to do good, to do right thing. At this stage, you also feel helpless.
~ Chin-Ning Chu
We have now gone beyond 100 in number, and the desire to join seems rather to increase, though it was thought the foundations would retard it, it seems quite otherwise.
~ Catherine McAuley
I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death.
~ C. S. Lewis
You must start with desire, keeping in mind that with the magic of believing you can obtain what you picture in your mind's eye.
~ Claude M. Bristol