Quotes About Desire

What matters is not what he has now, but what he might obtain if he does as others want him to do. Caught in the treadmill of social controls, that person keeps reaching for a prize that always dissolves in his hands.

To the extent that a glamorous ad makes us salivate for the product sold or that a frown from the boss spoils the day, we are not free to determine the content of experience

The fathers of the Church well understood that infatuation with the pleasures of the flesh could easily drain psychic energy away from other goals.

Few things are sadder than encountering a person who knows exactly what he should do, yet cannot muster enough energy to do it. "He who desires but acts not," wrote Blake with his accustomed vigor, "breeds pestilence.

La persona que no puede resistirse a la comida o al alcohol, o cuya mente está siempre pensando en el sexo, no es libre para dirigir su energía psíquica.

We value money because to a certain extent it liberates us from the constraints of life by making it possible to have free time to do in it what we want.

Few things are sadder than encountering a person who knows exactly what he should do, yet cannot muster enough energy to do it. "He who desires but acts not," wrote Blake with his accustomed vigor, "Breeds pestilence.

She shook a slim finger before my face, and her eyes laughed as she said, "And remember to beware of women whose loins burn worse than fire!

Cz?owiek jest niewolnikiem swego serca i zamyka oczy na to, co nie jest dla niego przyjemne, a wierzy w to, na co ma nadziej?.

Kto urodziÅ' siÄ™ w Tebach, tÄ™skni? bÄ™dzie zawsze do Teb, gdy? nie ma na ziemi innego miasta podobnego do Teb. Kto urodziÅ' siÄ™ w ubogim zauÅ'ku, tÄ™skni? bÄ™dzie zawsze do tej uliczki, z paÅ'acu cedrowego tÄ™skni? bÄ™dzie do glinianej lepianki; od zapachów mirry i drogocennych olejków tÄ™skni? bÄ™dzie do woni ognisk z bydlÄ™cego nawozu i ryb sma?onych na oleju.

Doubtless you would prefer a gayer woman than myself. But I would be gay—I would do all you wish so as not to disappoint you, and I would give you as much pleasure as I could.

I had not learned then that death avoids a man who desires it, to snatch at him whose heart holds fast to life.

He who once drunk of Nile water will forever yearn to be by the Nile again.

Turn, O you years_roll again, you vanished years_sail, Ammon, from west to east across the heavens and bring again my youth! Not one word of it will I alter, not my least action will I amend. O brittle pen, smooth papyrus, give me back my folly and my youth!

THE FIRST LONGING of the human heart is to have the assurance that we are enjoyed by God while still spiritually immature. To be enjoyed by God is a necessary part of living right. God enjoys us even when we are in the midst of our immaturity and weakness.

Others admit that God may enjoy them on earth, but only if they are as spiritually mature as the apostle Paul. But the truth is that God will enjoy us while we mature. The knowledge of this is a vital key to turning sincere desire into spiritual maturity.

You will find what you are looking for when you realize God has placed those longings in your heart as a divine desire; your hunger is a gift from God to draw you to Him. It's a holy want with a holy fulfillment. Everything you really need and want is offered by and found in Him.

We will never be completely satisfied by our achievements, skills, wealth, fame, pleasures, or possessions. Why? Because the human heart was created to need more than what is available to us in the natural realm. Only the eternal, supernatural God can fill our longings.

Yahweh: You've been unhappy because you've desired things that cannot be. Lucifer: That's what desire IS. The need for what we can't have. The need for what's readily available is called greed.

The only way to get what you really want, is to know what you really want. And the only way to know what you really want, is to know yourself. And the only way to know yourself, is to be yourself. And the only way to be yourself is to listen to your heart.

Time and space is where we chase things we pretend we don't have.

being of service and making a difference in the lives of others suddenly become what you most want to do.

Go ahead, want it all. That's what it's there for.

May all that you wish for be the least you receive.