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Quotes About Desires

Now, according to the strength or weakness of his faith in his Savior, so is his joy and peace, so is his love for holiness, so are his desires to know Him more and to serve Him more single-mindedly in this present world. But
~ John Bunyan
When I want to really get to know someone, I ask three questions. People's answers to these give me great insight into someone's heart. The questions are: What do you dream about? What do you sing about? What do you cry about?
~ John C. Maxwell
What do they cry about? To know where people truly want to go, you've got to know what touches their hearts. What do they sing about? In the long run, people need to focus a lot of energy on what gives them joy. What do they dream about? If you can help people discover their dreams and truly believe in them, you can help them become who they were designed to be. Becoming a Person of Influence
~ John C. Maxwell
The wrong person will never give you what you want, but they'll make sure they get what they want from you.
~ Unknown
Am I the only one with dreams here. I thought your dreams were my dreams and that you wanted what I wanted - so where are you now?
~ Unknown
Don't follow your heart. Make your heart follow you. The things your heart desire are often the things you're better off without.
~ Unknown
Only God can forgive you, restore your joy, and fill you with the right desires. - 1 John 1:9
~ Bible
I hope you have a beautiful day and get at least half of what you want! Happy Birthday!
~ Unknown
Parents say that they know what's best for us, but they don't know that what they think is the best for us is not that we want. We don't want to have the best thing, we just want be happy.
~ Unknown
Our wishes are influenced by what we see, what we hear, how we feel and how we understand the meaning of life.
~ Unknown
Being grateful for what you have will keep you happily busy while waiting for your other heart desires.
~ Terry Mark
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
~ Aristotle
Be eager in your desires but humbly patient in their accomplishment.
~ Mary MacKillop
Detach from emotions and desires; get rid of any fixations.
~ Zhuge Liang
Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Imprisoned is he whose heart is imprisoned from Allâh. Captured is he who is captured by his desires.
~ Ibn Taymiyyah
Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.
~ Plato
To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.
~ Maimonides
If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
~ Democritus
The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.
~ Todd Gitlin
The one who has no control over his desires has no control over his mind.
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
The one who is [truly] imprisoned is the one whose heart is imprisoned from Allah and the captivated one is the one whose desires have enslaved him.
~ Ibn Taymiyyah
Riches don't respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.
~ Napoleon Hill
Desire God, and you will have desires from God.
~ Smith Wigglesworth