Quotes About Desire

You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had.

When a nation follows God, government spends money on people. When a nation abandons God, government spends money on weapons. There is no greater poverty than greed. There is no greater disaster than desire. There is no greater curse than wanting more. The greatest peace is perfect contentment.

He said that the greatest pains or pleasures of this world are not to be compared with what he had experienced of both kinds in the spiritual life. He worried about nothing and feared nothing. His only desire is not to offend God. He did not beat himself up when he sinned. He said, "When I fail in my duty to God, I immediately acknowledge it, saying, 'All I do is sin, and I shall never do otherwise if I am left to myself.

Give the lady what she wants!

I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch, He said to me, "You must not ask for so much." And a pretty woman leaning in her darkened door, She cried to me, "Hey, why not ask for more?" —Leonard Cohen, "Bird on a Wire

Regret is the emotion we experience when we assess our present circumstances and reconsider how we got here. We replay what we actually did against what we should have done—and find ourselves wanting in some way. Regret can hurt.

The Great Western Disease is "I'll be happy when…" This is our belief that happiness is a static and finite goal, within our grasp when we get that promotion, or buy

I have never met a man who wanted to be bad," writes George MacLeod. "The mystery of man is that he is bad when he wants to be good.

In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.

He was muttering now and I could barely make out his words. "I'm going to die without ever feeling a woman's tits." "Go ahead," I said. It was about time I used the power of my chichis for good and not for evil.

Inside every man is a teenage boy, and we're -all- crazy in love with Shulky.

Most people go through their whole lives," John went on, "and never have one miracle happen to them. You've had dozens and dozens, and you still want more! It's like God gives you a brownie, I mean a really good brownie, but you can't be content with it. You want the whole pan of brownies. Nobody gets that.

Be careful what you wish for is a very useful adage in all things magical.

In a few minutes I heard the books' voices: a low, steady, unsupressible hum. I'd heard it many times before. I've always had a finely tuned ear for a library's accumulations of echo and desire. Libraries are anything but hushed.

I wait every year for summer, and it is usually good, but it is never as good as that summer I am always waiting for.

And this urge to run away from what I love is a sort of sadism I no longer pretend to understand.

Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

At the time I started in ballet they were dancing 'The Spirit of Champagne' on pointe, in Paris. I thought, 'I don't want to dance the spirit of champagne, I want to drink it!

Mortal love is but the licking of honey from thorns…" There was laughter again then, and applause, and a cry, "Well sung!

I could feel him paying attention to me with every inch of his being. He wanted to know me. My skin tightened with the pleasure of it. So I answered.

Controlling others—winning—is more compelling than anything (or anyone) else.

And so without our primordial attachments to others, what would we be? Evidently, we would be the players of a game, one that resembled a giant chess match, with our fellow human beings as the rooks, the knights, and the pawns. For this is the essence of sociopathic behavior, and desire.

Why yes, I did want to disengage the safety protocols, thanks for asking.

I don't know what I want. I said that at some point, I think. But it isn't that, it's that I don't want anyone to tell me what I want, or to make decisions for me.