Quotes About Desires

Satisfaction is the final destination of all wishes and desires.

Self-realization is realizing the truth that was already there when you were still unaware of it. Self-help means regaining your full freedom and living according to your desires.

Since you cannot live without desires, therefore it is impossible to run away from realisations too.

The adaptation of spirituality is the only solution to the problems of the world. We must go beyond corporeal desires.

The ego can be found in the heart, which in turn is the mother of all desires.

The heart is the throne of God and the heart is the mother of all the desires!

The more you expect, the more you become a slave and chained down by your desires of wishing more for yourself.

Those who seek materialistic things cannot go beyond themselves or master their thoughts. Monkey mind, jumping from tree to tree.

We are given the free-will, or the freedom of choice, to act according to our desires, and to determine whether we will believe or disbelieve in the Creator.

We must consider that wisdom is embedded in knowledge. Here is the list of the desires in order: Love, wealth, health, power and knowledge.

Your mental is infinite; according to your imagination. But success is finite, according to your desires. Those who are satisfied with little will never seek the so-called endless success.

People didn't always love who they should, or the ones who were good for them.

Years ago, I thought old age would be dreadful because I should not be able to do things I would want to do. Now I find there is nothing I want to do after all.

Sometimes we wonder why we aren't happy, why we make sinful choices, why we feel distant from God. Often it's because we have small thoughts about God and magnified thoughts of ourselves, our wants, our rights, our accomplishments.

For such an important task, we need to have our thoughts and attitudes and our dreams and desires shaped by Scripture.

The God of Christianity does not erase our individual identity but actually affirms it, calling us to become ever more fully the unique individuals we were created to be. Contrary to Eastern mysticism, the goal is not to suppress our desires, but to direct our desires to what truly satisfies—to a passionate love relationship with the ultimate Person.

The most terrible thing about marriage, I suppose, is that we know and understand each other's weaknesses and fears as much as we know our strengths and desires.

Demons are real. Since I'm not religious, I think of them as metaphors for the evil desires and impulses all humans have. A religious person can think of them as separate evil beings that can possess you. Either way, I believe they exist, lurking patiently around and in us, whispering their twisted points of view, ever alert for an opportunity. The sudden chink in your armor when you're tired, frightened, or angry. The invitation you issue in that moment of vulnerability.

When we refuse to obey God, when we are driven by our own desires, it is no surprise that rest and contentment elude us. When we follow Christ in obedience and humility, we find rest for our souls.

thought about how God, belief in God, in this God, has done violence to these people. Has warped them and bent them so that they can't even acknowledge any longer that they have desires, let alone learn how to act on them.

The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.

We're all born with selfish desires, so we can all relate to those feelings in others. But kindness is something made individually by each person...so it's easy to misunderstand when others are trying to be kind to you.

Men live by rules they've made for themselves. And among those rules is one specifying that women are merely commodities for men to possess. A daughter belongs to her father, a wife to her husband. A woman's own desires present obstacles for men and are best ignored.

For during life it is our wants, our hopes, our fears that enslave us.