Quotes About Desires

Being a pop fan is a lot like Catholic devotion - lots of ritual, lots of ceremony... We touch the icon to enter the sacred space, genuflecting to reliquaries and ostentatoria that make something splendid of our most secret desires and agonies.

That's always my downfall on tour: the food. I just want to eat everything.

So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position.

How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?

It is a safe thing to trust Him to fulfill the desires which He creates

Place your desires before God. Pray about them and trust God to give them to you if and when they're right for you.

Only one who liberates himself from his psychological desires and fears indeed in truth qualify as liberation hero.

Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires.

Dear friends, I warn you as "temporary residents and foreigners" to keep away from worldly desires that wage war against your very souls. 1 PETER 2:11 NLT2

Because of his hormones, he only has three emotions: crabby, hungry, horny.

It's far easier for people who want the same things to fall in love than for people who want different things to remain in love.

I only speak the truth. I quite despise myself for these desires that run amok. But run amok they do. I daresay for the rest of my life I will dream of being fondled by you.

Fantasies and wishes carry their own significant messages.

Shikantaza is not a practice carried out by the individual. It is, rather, a practice in which we let go of the individual karmic self that is constantly seeking to satisfy its own desires.

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

But wishes are only granted in fairy tales.

short-lived passions I pursued on my own terms.

God loves us too much to indulge our every whim.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.- Henry Ward Beecher - I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Women are concerned about the purity and welfare of the community. ? While the father's love was related to mundane desires, the mother's love was related to spiritual concerns.

We are not masters of our own affections; our inclinations dailyalter: now we love pleasure, and anon we shall dote on business. Human frailty will have it so, and who can help it?