Quotes About Desires

Knowledge both enlarges and multiplies our Desires, and the fewer things a Man wishes for, the more easily his Necessities may be supply'd.

A man must have limits and cannot give in to the wild desires to be everything and everyone and everything to everyone.

By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are frustrated.

So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with less.

Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

The notion that everyone would like Christianity to be true, and therefore all atheists are brave men who have accepted the defeat of all their deepest desires, is simply impudent nonsense.

As I see it then, the formula runs something like this: a man must choose a path which will let his ABILITIES function at maximum efficiency toward the gratification of his DESIRES.

To make a man richer, give him more money of curb his desires.

Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

No man's body is as strong as his appetites, but Heaven has corrected the boundlessness of his voluptuous desires by stinting his strength and contracting his capacities.

To many men much-wandering hope comes as a boon, but to many others it is the deception of vain desires.

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.

Man peoples his current living space with a world of his own, crowded with the offspring of his fancies, desires, impulses, and passions.

Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man's desires.

Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts.

We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man's afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.

For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe?

Our only valid criteria for judgment are the virtues in the soul who is serving God. Is she humble, detached from personal desires, and is her conscience pure? If so, she is holy.

As women shut down their needs, they also shut down their sense of pleasure.

you can change your desires by changing what you give attention to.

Offer to God the sacrifice of never gathering any fruit. If He will that throughout your whole life you should feel a repugnance to suffering and humiliation—if He permit that all the flowers of your desires and of your good will should fall to the ground without any fruit appearing, do not worry. At the hour of death, in the twinkling of an eye, He will cause fair fruits to ripen on the tree of your soul.

Sleeping, we image what awake we wish; Dogs dream of bones, and fishermen of fish.*