Quotes About Desire

To believe that if only we had this or that we would be happy, or to pursue any excessive desire, diverts us from seeing that happiness depends on an adequate self.

The craving for 'the return of the day', which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.

The fulfillment of desire does not necessarily make you happy because there is a satiation factor. You can get some apple pie and eat it. If this is what makes you happy, why not eat ten?

When people are struggling, thats a painful place to be in, to not know who you are and where you belong and what you desire.

Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love

Part of my driving desire as a pastor is to remove every obstacle except the cross that would keep people from coming to faith in Christ.

Coeur qui soupire n'a pas ce qu'il desire. The heart that sighs does not have what it desires.

The desire for order is the only order in the world.

Ethics: The indispensable interface between my desire to be happy and yours.

Desire can blind us to the hazards of our enterprises.

...and the most intense desire gave force to her passionate words as the girl glanced despairingly about the dreary room like a caged creature on the point of breaking loose.

It is better to desire the things we have than to have the things we desire.

The modern corporation must manufacture not only goods but the desire for the goods it manufactures.

Dependable teams members possess the desire to do the things they are capable of doing.

Those that abide in Christ as their heart's desire shall have, through Christ, their heart's desire.

She who desires to see, desires also to be seen.

Although the Buddhists will tell you that desire is the root of suffering, my personal experience leads me to point the finger at system administration.

Avarice, or the desire of gain, is a universal passion which operates at all times, at all places, and upon all persons.

Perhaps that's what we're all looking for - desire undiluted by habit.

Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral.

All the concessions we make to Eros are holes in our desire for the absolute.

Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.

Obligation is a flimsy base for creativity, way down the list behind passion, courage, instinct, and the desire to do something great.

Evil, as evil, can never be chosen; and though evil is often the effect of our own choice, yet we never desire it but under the appearance of an imaginary good.