Quotes About Desires

It is with our Passions, as it is with Fire and Water, they are 'Good Servants,' but 'Bad Masters.'

...all enjoyment is dependent upon the frailty of human life and human desires ... if we were to have all we want and to live forever, all enjoyment would be gone.

A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.

Wait, I thought I was your dream guy,' Peter says. Not to me, to Kitty. He knows he's not my dream guy. My dream guy is Gilbert Blythe from Anne of Green Gables . Handsome, loyal, smart in school.

But the guarding of our desires is more than fighting a rear-guard defensive action against temptations from the world, the flesh, and the devil. We must take the offensive. Paul directs us to set our hearts on things above, that is, on spiritual values (Colossians 3:1).

Supporting God's Scriptural ability to give or restrain man's desires, Jerry Bridges points to an amazing verse tucked away in Exodus 34:24. As Israel's people abandon their defense entirely to have a feast before Him three times per year, God says the surrounding peoples will be entirely devoid of even the logical desire to possess their land.

Yet God said that no other nation would covet the land of the Israelites, even during their vulnerable and defenseless times. God can restrain not only people's actions, but even their most deeply rooted desires. No part of the human heart is impervious to God's sovereign but mysterious control.

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God sovereignly intervened in the hearts—the desires and wills—of the Egyptians to accomplish His purpose for the Israelites.

Ever since his fall in the Garden of Eden, man has listened to his desires more than his reason.

To put the point another way, these beliefs provide rational reinforcement for our instinctive moral feelings. This is a significant observation for the obvious reason that we also have feelings and desires that are contrary to moral action. If rational considerations do not support morality but even undermine its rational credentials, it is likely that our moral commitments may be unsettled by thoughtful reflection and awareness.

Men want the same thing from women that they want from their underwear... a little support, comfort, and freedom.

Men want the same thing from women and their underwear: support, comfort, and freedom.

I could be making a lot more money now if I had chosen a different kind of movie, but none of that matters to me... I've done the parts I wanted to do.

Unrestricted satisfaction of all desires is not conducive to well-being, nor is it the way to happiness or even to maximum pleasure.

The outer chains have simply been put inside of man. The desires and thoughts that the suggestion apparatus of society fills him with, chain him more thoroughly than outer chains. This is so because man can at least be aware of outer chains but be unaware of inner chains, carrying them with the illusion that he is free. He can try to overthrow the outer chains, but how can he rid himself of chains of whose existence he is unaware? Any

Alle Menschen sind Idealisten und können gar nicht umhin, Idealisten zu sein, vorausgesetzt, dass wir unter Idealismus das Streben nach der Befriedigung von Bedürfnissen verstehen, die spezifisch menschlich sind und die über die physiologischen Bedürfnisse des Organismus hinausgehen.

Contemporary society preaches this ideal of unindividualized equality because it needs human atoms, each one the same, to make them function in a mass aggregation, smoothly, without friction; all obeying the same commands, yet everybody being convinced that he is following his own desires.

Ich weiß, was euch zu eurem Glück noch fehlt. Wir sollen zwar kommen, und gehen, wann ihr es wollt. Aber wir sollen weinen, wenn ihr uns fortschickt. Und wir sollen selig sein, wenn ihr uns winkt. Ihr wollt den Warencharakter der Liebe, aber die Ware soll verliebt sein. Ihr zu allem berechtigt und zu nichts verpflichtet, wir zu allem verpflichtet und zu nichts berechtigt, so sieht euer Paradies aus. Doch das geht zu weit!

Once we had such desires - but they return not. They are past, they belong to another world that is gone from us.

Mais quand on rêve à de grandes choses, c'est pas simple de n'avoir sous la main que des petites choses.

The way we store energy is through our desires, values, passions, hopes, dreams, and aspirations, and ultimately our greatest capacity for energy storage is through what we love.

These couples, in their own ways, have chosen to acknowledge the possibility of the third: the recognition that our partner has his or her own sexuality, replete with fantasies and desires that aren't necessarily about us. When we validate one another's freedom within the relationship, we're less inclined to search for it elsewhere.

It's not our desires that are different today, but the fact that we feel we deserve—indeed, we are obligated—to pursue them. Our primary duty is now to ourselves—even if it comes at the expense of those we love. As Pamela Druckerman points out, "Our high expectations for personal happiness might even make us more likely to cheat. After all, aren't we entitled to an affair, if that's what it takes to be fulfilled?