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Quotes About Desires

That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it.The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
The time for it is always with us though we say I do not have that kind of time. The kind of time I have is not for this but for that. I wish I had that kind of time.
~ Lynda Barry
Everyday, you get home from the shops with a bag of cat food and bin-liners and realise that, yet again, you failed to have cosmetic surgery, book a cheap weekend in Paris, change your name to something more glamorous, buy the fifth series of The Sopranos, divorce your spouse, sell up and move to Devon, or adopt a child from Guatemala.
~ Lynne Truss
Life was too damned short to constantly push your own desires down and always do what others wanted. On
~ Lynsay Sands
Pentru ca viaÈ›a-i scurt?, cu mult? suferin??, È™i f?r? cazn? trai nu-i cu putin?? conduÈ™i de pofte È™i dorinÈ›i noi ne petrecem È™i ne roadem anii; cin` la pl?ceri renun?? doar str?danii g?seÈ™te, chin È™i suferinÈ›i; de-a lumii am?gire acela n-are È™tire, nici de-ntâmpl?ri-i sucite, de orori ce-apas? greu pe-atâÈ›ia muritori. (M?tr?guna)
~ Machiavelli
The difference between success and failure isn't the absence of fear but the determination to pursue your heart's desires no matter how scared you are.
~ Martha Beck
Rise above the daily stumbles and place your focus on your vision. When you identify your desires commit to unlimited success
~ Bluenscottish
We mustn't just simply pray, but rather ask God about His desires and plans. This is the prayer of enquiry
~ Pastor Adelaja Sunday
Do not constantly question why your desires have not manifested, although you should keep a vibrational connection to them.
~ Stephen Richards
The universe wants you to succeed. So listen to her deep driving desires and be a great success.
~ Debasish Mridha
We're all stuck between the realm of our desires, their possibilities and the realities of life.
~ Huseyn Raza
I had a book in my hands to while away the time and it occurred to me that in a way a landscape is not unlike a book - a compilation of pages that overlap without two ever being the same. People open the book according to their taste and training, their memories and desires. On occasion these pages are ruled with lines that are invisible to some people, while being for others, as real, as charged and as volatile as high-voltage cables.
~ Amitav Ghosh
It was as if the two women represented the poles of his desires, one of them forthright, spontaneous and simple in her tastes; the other engimatic, sophisticated, wedded to luxury.
~ Amitav Ghosh
Indeed, this is perhaps the most important question ever to confront culture in the broadest sense – for let us make no mistake: the climate crisis is also a crisis of culture, and thus of the imagination. Culture generates desires – for vehicles and appliances, for certain kinds of gardens and dwellings – that are among the principal drivers of the carbon economy.
~ Amitav Ghosh
as to our hopes, our dreams, our secret desires, we couldn't talk about those. They were to vague, too frightening, too important. And so they stayed inside us, growing like a cancer, a body eating away at itself. In retrospect I'm amazed how long our marriage lasted.
~ Amy Tan
She said that if I listened to her, later I would know what she knew: where true words came from, always from up high, above everything else. And if I didn't listen to her, she said my ear would bend too easily to other people, all saying words that had no lasting meaning, because they came from the bottom of their hearts, where their own desires lived, a place where I could not belong.
~ Amy Tan
If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses
~ Anais Nin
The enormous difference between the relationships you need, and the one you deeply want. The need is created out of an accumulation of negativities, planted by traumatic experiences: fear, doubts, anxiety, dependence, weakness in certain realms, inadequacy, incompleteness. A certain relationship can remove the fear, calm anxiety, supply a certain completion, replace a loss, fulfill an organic insufficiency, lull an insecurity, supply a substitute love.
~ Anais Nin
He failed to see that it contained at once all of Djuna's wishes which had been denied, and these wishes had flown from all directions to meet at this intersection and to plead once more for understanding.
~ Anais Nin
Una vida de liberación de los instintos se compone de diferentes estratos. El primero conduce al segundo, el segundo al tercero y así sucesivamente. Al final, se llega a los placeres anormales.
~ Anais Nin
Créeme, cuando hablo de vivir de acuerdo con los instintos, no es más que humo. Hay muchos instintos que deben ser reprimidos porque están descompuestos, podridos.
~ Anais Nin
We not only learn to say, 'My Father,' but also 'Our Father.' Nothing would be more unnatural than for the children of a family to always meet their father alone but never in the united expression of their desires or their love.
~ Andrew Murray
When He made man in His image it was, above all, with the purpose that the desires of man would be in harmony with the desires of God. This is the high honor of being made in the likeness of God—that we are to feel and wish just as God.
~ Andrew Murray
In human flesh man was to be the embodiment and fulfillment of God's desires.
~ Andrew Murray