Quotes About Desires

Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.

From what may anyone be saved? Only from themselves! That is, their individual hell. They dig it with their own desires.

Julian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are puppets of our subconscious desires.

It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than adversity ruins.

Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.

Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.

It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.

Most software has a tiny essence that justifies its existence, everything after that is wants and desires mistaken for needs and necessities.

Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.

May you be blessed with everything your heart desires.

By my makeup and temperament I wasn't really prey to physical desires. Everything happened in my head.

To pray in the name of Christ is to pray as one who is at one with Christ, whose minid is the mind of Christ, whose desires are the desires of Christ, and whose purpose is one with that of Christ.

Desires are seeds waiting for their season to sprout. From a single seed of desire, whole forests grow.

Thus when we fondly flatter our desires, Our best conceits do prove the greatest liars.

Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment we're born?

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

What keeps us from achieving our heart's desires is not anything outside of us, it's the conflict inside.

We cannot be free of nagging desires through suppression. This is like trying to keep a rubber boat beneath the water. But we remove compulsive desires altogether by understanding their nature.

If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?

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.

If you make provision for the desires of the flesh and bear a grudge against your neighbor on account of something transitory, you worship the creature instead of the Creator.

Your radiance shines in every atom of creation yet our petty desires keep it hidden.

Economics is not an attempt to generalize human desires or human behavior; but to generalize the phenomena of price.

Altruism is for those who cannot endure their desires.