Quotes About Desires

As we will see, it did not succeed. In this way Pampa learned the lesson every creator must learn, even God himself. Once you had created your characters, you had to be bound by their choices. You were no longer free to remake them according to your own desires

The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of his longings.

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.

The cause was not in Dantes, but in providence, who, while limiting the power of man, has filled him with boundless desires.

So Dantès, who three months earlier had wanted nothing except freedom, felt already not free enough, but wanted wealth. It was not the fault of Dantès, but of God who, while limiting the power of man, has created in him infinite desires!

In democratic times, enjoyment is keener than in aristocratic centuries, and above all the number of those who taste it is infinitely greater; but on the other hand, one must recognize that hopes and desires are more often disappointed, souls more arouse and more restive, and cares more burning.

The passion for physical comforts is essentially a passion of the middle classes.

There are those who insist that mothers are born with love for their children and place them before all other things, including their own needs and desires. This was not the case with us.

Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble and grand. The word my grandfather uses is comfort. So there are cakes and pillows and colors galore, but underneath this more obvious patchwork quilt are places like a quiet room where you can go and hold someone's hand and not have to say anything. Give no story. Make no claim. Where you can live at the edge of your skin for as long as you wish.

Sometimes the dreams that came true are the dreams you never even knew you had

You are too full of your own hopes to hold anyone else's.

El experimento del HeartMath demuestra que el campo cuántico no responde simplemente a nuestros deseos: nuestras peticiones emocionales. Ni tampoco a nuestras intenciones: nuestros pensamientos. Sólo nos responde cuando estos dos factores son afines o coherentes, es decir, cuando emiten la misma señal.

God said if you will delight yourself in Him, He will give you the desires of your heart. That means if you'll keep God first place, if you'll honor Him with your life, He'll cause people to want to be good to you. He'll cause you to be at the right place at the right time.

Proverbs says, "A man may plan his ways, but God directs his steps." God is going to give you the right desires, at the right time, and lead you into the best path for your life.

The mind will be still if there's no warfare, but there's always warfare if you have two powers, if you have good and evil, if you have desires, if you struggle to attain or achieve something.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power. Then everything swims before my senses, and I smile and dream while pursuing my way through the world.

While Man's desires and aspirations stir, He cannot choose but err.

Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.

Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism as the outcome of foul life and vicious desires.

Life is merely a fraction of a second. An infinitely small amount of time to fulfill our desires, our dreams, our passions.

To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God's.

Almost every one has a predominant inclination, to which his other desires and affections submit, and which governs him, though perhaps with some intervals, though the whole course of his life.