Quotes About Desires

Detach yourself from all that makes your mind restless. Renounce all that disturbs its peace. If you want peace, deserve it. By being a slave to your desires and fears, you disturb peace.

Learn to become still, and take your attention away from what you don't want

To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have.

Education is not the means of showing people how to get what they want. Education is an exercise by means of which enough men, it is hoped, will learn to want what is worth having.

You can learn not to want what you want, to recognize desires but not be controlled by them.

From biscuit to brides, if there is anything their children really want, parents have a problem.

The life of your dreams, everything you would love to be, do or have, has always been closer to you than you knew, because the power to everything you want is inside you.

Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.

How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!

Sometimes I think all I want to find is a mean guy and make him be nice to me. Or maybe a nice guy who's a little bit mean to me. But they're usually too nice too soon or too mean too long.

I sometimes fall into the trap of doing what I think I should be doing rather than what I want to be doing.

restraint and self-control. We restrain our impulsive desires even as we feel the discomfort of putting off instant gratification and maintaining control of our lives.

A carnal worshipper is taken with the beauty and magnificence of the temple; a spiritual worshipper desires to see the glory of God in the sanctuary (Psalm lxiii. 2), he pants after God: as he came to worship, to find God, he boils up in desires for God, and is loth to go from it without God, "the living God" (Psalm xlii. 2).

Altruism is for those who can't endure their desires. There's a world as ambiguous as a moan, a pleasure moan our earnest neighbors might think a crime. It's where we could live. I'll say I love you, Which will lead, of course, to disappointment, but those words unsaid poison every next moment. I will try to disappoint you better than anyone else has. --Mon Semblable

Praying with a lustful heart. "You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures" (James 4:3). God isn't fooled by prayers that are more about how we can fulfill our sinful desires than how we can honor Him and fulfill His purposes.

wishes are like magnifying glasses they enlarge and focus an intention that is already inside us.

Without desires and dreams, your thoughts do not matter and you can think whatever you want to.

You cannot run at full throttle when applying your mindset to all of the different things running through your head. Focusing is the key to manifesting your desires.

Your dreams will come true, but do not be overly demanding. Be logical – there are not enough mansions for everyone in the world, are there?

It so happens that at times your desires tend to disagree with the reality and this is due to the fact that you have not let the two elements complement each other.

To rise above the conflicting desires of others, there must be no conflict about your own.

Do not constantly question why your desires have not manifested, although you should keep a vibrational connection to them.

There are more triumphs than defeats with Cosmic Ordering.

Thought and passion = successful manifesting of wishes...