Quotes About Desire

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

My New Year's Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds.

Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.

Liberty consists in doing what one desires.

Grace is not something outside or you.. In fact, your very desire for grace is due to grace that is already working in you.

We all desire to be understood, but no one enjoys being obvious.

If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies.

Passion and desire bind your Heart. Remove the locks. Become a key, become a key . . .

I have this desire to keep improving, so I find fault.

We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire-based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need.

Wonder is the desire of knowledge.

The very desire to be certain,to be secure,is the beginning of bondage.It's only when the mind is not caught in the net of certainty,and is not seeking certainty, that it is in a state of discovery.

To get or not to get what we desire can be equally disappointing.

Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?

My preference for clear structures is the result of my desire - perhaps illusory - to keep track of things and maintain my grip on the world.

Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.

A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.

Some of us must wait for the best human gifts until we come to heavenly places. Our natural desire for musical utterance is perhaps a prophecy that in a perfect world we shall all know how to sing.

For as long as I am alive, I will not rest in my desire to lead my people out of an abyss of corruption and poverty.

Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.

Desire followed the glance, pleasure followed desire