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Quotes About Desire

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~ John Dos Passos
I'm going to drink till when I cut myself whiskey runs out. What's the good of blood when you can have whiskey?
~ John Dos Passos
Why the hell does everybody want to succeed? I'd like to meet somebody who wanted to fail. That's the only sublime thing.
~ John Dos Passos
But wilde Ambition loves to slide, not stand; And Fortunes Ice prefers to Vertues Land
~ John Dryden
Follow your heart and listen to your intuition...your higher self knows what you really want...listen...follow and get to the place you want to be.
~ John Edward
A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to combine a strong desire for living with a strange carelessness about dying. He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it; he must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine.
~ John Eldredge
Made in the image of a perfect relationship, we are relational to the core of our beings and filled with a desire for transcendent purpose. We long to be an irreplaceable part of a shared adventure.
~ John Eldredge
Part of me knows that prayer is essential; another part of me would rather turn on the TV and check out. And that whole bit about being long-suffering-no way. Part of me wants to just get drunk.
~ John Eldredge
They may be misplaced, forgotten, or misdirected, but in the heart of every man is a desperate desire for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.
~ John Eldredge
In the spacious love of God, our souls can lie down and rest. This love from him is not something we must struggle for, earn, or fear to lose. It is bestowed. He has bestowed it upon us. He has chosen us. And nothing can separate us from his love. Not even we, ourselves. We are made for such a love. Our hearts yearn to be loved intimately, personally, and yes, romantically. We are created to be the object of desire and affection of one who is totally and completely in love with us. And we are.
~ John Eldredge
Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it.
~ John Eldredge
If you had permission to do what you really want to do, what would you do?
~ John Eldredge
So, let's come back to the simple question Jesus asks of us all: What do you want? Don't minimize it; don't try to make sure it sounds spiritual; don't worry about whether or not you can obtain it. Just stay with the question until you begin to get an answer. This is the way we keep current with our hearts.
~ John Eldredge
And so a man's heart, driven into the darker regions of the soul, denied the very things he most deeply desires, comes out in darker places.
~ John Eldredge
the great divide lies between men as lovers and men as consumers. Does he seek her out, long for her, because really he yearns for her to meet some need in his life—a need for validation (she makes him feel like a man), or mercy, or simply sexual gratification? That man is a Consumer, as my friend Craig calls him. The lover, on the other hand, wants to fight for her—he wants to protect her, make her life better, wants to fill her heart in every way he can.
~ John Eldredge
When it comes to happiness, our soul is like a colander, a tire with a nail in it, our grandfather's memory. It feels like there is a homeless person inside of us, wandering around pushing a shopping cart.
~ John Eldredge
The vast desire and capacity a woman has for intimate relationships tells us of God's vast desire and capacity for intimate relationships.
~ John Eldredge
Most of our addictions [shopping, food, bad relationships] as women flare up when we feel that we are not loved or sought after.
~ John Eldredge
Our hearts are telling us the truth—there really is something missing! The
~ John Eldredge
When we taste something that we think is good, our longings cease to ache, for a minute, but later we find ourselves empty once more, needing to be filled again and again.
~ John Eldredge
A boy wants to attack something—and so does a man, even if it's only a little white ball on a tee. He wants to whack it into kingdom come.
~ John Eldredge
I shall take the heart," returned the Tin Woodman; "for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world." (L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)
~ John Eldredge
All of the happiness we have ever known and all of the happiness we hope to find is unreachable without a heart.
~ John Eldredge
We know if we could truly love, and be loved, and never lose love, we would finally be happy.
~ John Eldredge