Quotes About Desire

Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction

There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty.

You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.

No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.--The Count of Monte Cristo

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

children are simply human beings who are allowed to do what everyone else really desires to do, as for instance, to fly kites, or when seriously wronged to emit prolonged screams for several minutes.

It is a sin when I place myself deliberately in the place of temptation… either because I enjoy the prospect or because I'm not determined enough in my desire to overcome it.

It (Tao) is eternally without desire. So, it can be called small. All things return to it, although it does not make itself their ruler. So, it can be called great.

The thing that keeps me most awake is the desire and curiosity to learn more.

And what does every child believe every adult capable of doing? Of actually being able to bend the world to an inner desire, exactly what the child is busily practicing in his passionate play.

Your desire for perfection is the cause of anger. Leave room for imperfection. Perfection in action is almost impossible.

If my desire is possible, it means the system is already letting something else through.

The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.

Making every desire come true is not difficult once you realize that the same thing is always at work - you are transforming pure awareness from one state to another.

The volume of credit depends upon three factors: the desire to borrow, the ability to lend and the desire to lend.

An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.

There is a city in which you find everything you desire-handsome people, pleasures, ornaments of every kind-all that the natural person craves. However, you cannot find a single wise person there.

At Christmas, I no more desire a rose.

My ambition is limited to the desire to capture something transient, and yet, this ambition is excessive.

A soul who loves Jesus Christ desires to be treated the way Christ was treated-desires to be poor, despised, and humiliated.

Those whose upper and lower ranks have the same desire are victorious.

Offer a vibration that matches your desire rather than offering a vibration that keeps matching what-is.

Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.

Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.