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Quotes About Desires

Prayer is your attempt to bring your will and desires in line with God's will.
~ Jim George
Don't let your personal desires distort the standards established in God's Word.
~ Jim George
Some of our strangest actions are also our most deeply characteristic: secret desires remain weak fantasies unless they pervade a will strong enough to carry them out.
~ Jim Harrison
Vendo sogni, piccoli comfort, tentazioni dolci e innocue.
~ Joanne Harris
Never give up your mind or your emotions; you need to take complete control of them. Having control makes feelings, emotions and desires much more pure, satisfying and fulfilling.
~ Unknown
The dreams that you hold for your future are what you dream about at night. Theyre always at the back of your mind. Theyre what your heart desires. They keep you going. Accept reality and have a backup plan, but always follow your dreams no matter what.
~ Miley Cyrus
You shall obtain the fruits of your mind's desires, by focusing your consciousness on the Lord's Lotus Feet. He is totally pervading the water and the land; He is the Lord of the World-forest. Behold Him in exaltation in each and every heart. Nanak gives this advice.
~ Sri Guru Granth Sahib
Relationships are not about I want this or I want that. Its about two people caring for the other's desires.
~ Unknown
Everyone has inner drives.... hence we must be careful what we are Driven by !
~ Unknown
The man trying to find a horse or a wife without fault has neither steed in his stable nor angel in his bed.
~ Unknown
Meeting needs and obeying commands are not the same.
~ Vimala McClure
We have no sovereignty over the devil, and we cannot stop him from being the tempter. However, we are responsible to examine our desires, and if they make us susceptible to temptations, we must resist them. We
~ Unknown
We ought to be always aware of our thoughts, motives, and desires, to cultivate those that keep us on the way of righteousness, and to annihilate those that would draw us away from God and into the way of rebellion and transgression. This is the way to master temptations.
~ Unknown
Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. Because of these, the wrath of God is coming. (Colossians 3:5-6)
~ Unknown
the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear" (2 Timothy 4:3).
~ Unknown
The apostle Paul foretold that, "The time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear" (2 Timothy 4:3).
~ Unknown
In the history of a soul's evolution there is a critical point of the human incarnation that decides for us whether we stay there, go down or progress upwards. There is a knot of worldly desires impeding us; cut the knot by mastering desires and go forward. This done, progress is assured.
~ Unknown
Min mors ønsker er simple, men de er ikke til forhandling. Hun oplever dem som nødvendigheder. Lige nu er hun nødt til at have en kop kaffe. Det vil ikke være muligt at komme uden om dette ønske, som hun kalder et behov, før hun holder kruset med den dampende varme væske i sin hånd og fører det op til munden.
~ Vivian Gornick
Sus deseos son simples, pero innegociables. Los experimenta como necesidades.
~ Vivian Gornick
if he lost consciousness still telling me to do nothing, I'd have to let him die. You say yourself he's rational. I have no right to go against his desires. No matter how stupid and wasteful they are.
~ Vonda N. McIntyre
The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews.
~ W. H. Auden
He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.
~ Unknown
The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews Not to be born is the best for man The second best is a formal order The dance's pattern, dance while you can. Dance, dance, for the figure is easy The tune is catching and will not stop Dance till the stars come down from the rafters Dance, dance, dance till you drop.
~ W.H. Auden
Every human heart cries and yearns for the same thing: a chance to fulfill his or her own dreams and desires. Even the poorest man has a dream.
~ Myles Munroe