Quotes About Desire

Our life is a gymnasium of desire.... When Christians say "God," what do we wish to express? This word is all that we yearn for."

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

I can make beleive I have everything, but I can't pretend that I don't see that without you in my life is complete.

This craving for health, wealth, long life, and the like - the so - called good - is nothing but an illusion.

I simply write what I want, wish, long to write.... The state of human life and the god or demon within. The constant internal war that being alive can conjure.

Desire for increased wealth is not evil... it is simply the desire for more abundant life; it is aspiration.

The very foundation of the living of life lies in the desire of every man to give service to fulfill the needs of his neighbor.

Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else.

I followed all life's pleasures wherever they would lead, but someone I can treasure is all I really need.

I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly.

I don't want to dream anymore, I want my life to be real!

I know it's wrong - God, it's all kinds of wrong - but I just want to lie down with you and wake up with you, just once, just once ever in my life.

Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by a desire to change his bed.

If you want something hard enough, whether it be a material possession or just something in your life, if you work hard enough there is absolutely no reason why you can't obtain it.

Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.

A person's life story is equal to what they have plus what they want most in the world, minus what they're actually willing to sacrifice for it.

You can change a person's life in an instant; put him in a movie, and you start thinking differently, you want to be in another movie. It's like an addiction almost.

And I been waitin' all my life And I been havin' big dreams times twice

Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.

I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!

There are days that I wake up and I complain, and when I complain I pinch myself and say, 'that's for complaining.' Not many people can do what they really like in life.

Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.

You're meant to have whatever your heart desires. Whatever your heart wants that much is already a part of you.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.