Quotes About Desires

Each one, in my impassioned interior conversations, granted me some aspect of my most dearly held, most fiercely hidden heart's desires. Life, art, motherhood. Love and the great seductive promise that I wasn't nothing. That I could be seen for my unvarnished self, and that this hidden self, this precious girl without a mask, unseen for decades, could, that indeed she must, leave a trace upon the world.

a sub's deepest desires were often hidden inside their greatest fears. You could take a submissive much further than they thought they could go, given the right training, patience and most of all, trust.

The word we. We are not one people but many different people. How can one person speak for this great, beautiful race--which is not one race but many, with a million desires and hopes and wished for ourselves and our children?

Every need I have is met and most of my desires. I have a peace and joy in my life that I don't even understand. So, this can't be anything but God.

Com o que é que os presos sonhavam com maior frequência? Com pão, bolos, cigarros e belos banhos quentes. A falta de satisfação destes desejos simples levava à procura de uma satisfação derivada em sonhos. Se estes sonhos traziam algum alívio é já outra questão; o sonhador tinha de acordar deles para a realidade da vida no campo e para o terrível contraste entre isso e as ilusões do seu sonho.

Cuando procuro analizar mis propios anhelos, motivaciones y actos, me rindo ante una especie de imaginación retrospectiva que atiborra la facultad analítica que con infinitas alternativas bifurca incesantemente cada rumbo visualizado en la perspectiva enloquecedoramente compleja de mi pasado

I was also supposed to quiz my various companions on a number of important matters such as nostalgia, fear of unknown animals, food fantasies, nocturnal emissions, hobbies, choice of radio program, changes in out look and so forth.

There is no calamity greater than lavish desires.There is no greater guilt than discontentment.And there is no greater disaster than greed.

There is no calamity greater than lavish desires.There is no greater guilt than discontentment.And there is not greater disaster than greed.

In other words, what your desires are whispering to you may actually be the key to something bigger than a day at the beach.

She wondered when her daughter would realise that for the most part, people weren't that different. Young and old, male or female, pretty much everyone she knew wanted the same things: The wanted to feel peace in their hearts, they wanted a life without turmoil, they wanted to be happy. The difference, she thought, was that most young people seemed to think that those things lay somewhere in the future. While most older people believed that they lay in the past.

Create your "List of 100 Dreams." This was the exercise from Chapter 2 that the career coach Caroline Ceniza-Levine does with her clients. Come up with as many answers as possible to the question of "What do I want to do (or do more of) with my time?

Projection is the attribution of one's own attitudes, feelings, or desires to someone or something. Projection is an unconscious defense against anxiety or guilt.

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

Everything that she had wanted for Lydia, which Lydia had never wanted but had embraced anyway.

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.

The things we think we want are often substitutes for what we really want, and the pleasures we seek are less than the joy that they distract us from.

Pleasure, remember, is among other things the feeling we get from satisfying a need. The more powerful the need, the greater the pleasure. To follow this principle requires, first, accepting that our needs are valid and even beautiful. And not just our needs, but our desires as well, coming as they do from unmet needs.

One of the reasons people fail to trust God and seek His plan for their lives is because they become too wrapped up in their own desires, thoughts, and dreams for the future. The focus of their lives is not set on God and doing His will. It is set on fulfilling their own desires—desires that frequently are not in keeping with His plan and purpose.

Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy you the kind of misery you prefer.

You have the choice of deliberately directing your thinking, or allowing other forces to dictate your desires and attitudes.

Pure motives are prerequisite to the ability to call down the powers of heaven. The Lord will not sustain your efforts to achieve, excel or receive special blessings if your desires are vain.

At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths-your abilities and your failings.