Quotes About Desires

Desires collide; the wish to eat bumping up against the wish to be thin, the desire to indulge conflicting with the injunction to restrain. Small wonder food makes a woman nervous.

Becoming a producer enables you to empower yourself, to make the film that you want to make. I have desires to make movies - I have movies I'm developing, and things that I'm interested in.

To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality.

Thoughts are to the Desires as Scouts and Spies, to range abroad, and find the way to the things Desired.

Every living soul has different talents, different desires, different faculties. Be yourself, for even if you deceive the entire world, you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.

Nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world.

The problem is the way we let our desires stand in the way of our enjoyment of what we already have.

Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification.

I live by the spirit so I don't gratify all them old sinful desires that never satisfy.

The average person is full of artificial desires, desires that have been suggested by what other people possess or require.

If our mind is pure, our desires get manifested quickly.

Superstitions are all materialism, because they are all based on the consciousness of body, body, body. No spirit there. Spirit has no superstitions - it is beyond the vain desires of the body.

We have a dangerous tendency to misunderstand, minimize, and even manipulate the gospel in order to accommodate our assumptions and our desires.

When we become quiet and introduce our intentions into the field of pure potentiality, we harness the universe's infinite organizing power, which can manifest our desires with effortless ease.

All desires and egoism will have to be banished from the being.

We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires.

Sexualization is imposed from the outside as opposed to sexuality, an understanding of the body's responses and desires and ability to communicate that, cultivated from within.

I am overrun, infested with a menagerie of desires.

One should cultivate human values for healthy living. this calls for harmony in thought, word and deed. When you cultivate this harmony you will be free from desires and fears.

Criminals interest me, because they're driven by the same desires as we are, but they take these disastrous shortcuts and end up in a real mess.

I lived in a brilliantly lit haze, shifting and flickering according to my changing desires. Of course, that is only a description of being young.

Characters are story. And any great plot or subplot is driven by the characters' wants and desires.