Quotes About Desires

Desires are our way and Peace is God's Way

Supply the needs first and the wants later, for one can only obtain true peace, love and joy when one supplies the needs first and not the wants.

If only they could live in the twilight of their dreams, in the tiny moment before the harsh light of reality found them, perhaps they could be happy.

The romantic within us is a harbinger of our deepest desires.

Sharing feelings, conveying appreciation and whispering desires are all crucial components of a satisfying encounter with your beloved.

Mastery is not a question of genetics of luck, but of following your natural inclinations and the deep desires that stirs you from within.

Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat. If you find yourself lacking in persistence, this weakness may be remedied by building a stronger fire under your desires.

all men have become what they are, because of their DOMINATING THOUGHTS AND DESIRES.

That depends entirely upon the nature and extent of one's desires, and the control one exercises over his mind in keeping it free from fear and doubt and self-imposed limitations. This sort of control comes through constant vigilance, wherein one keeps his mind free of all negative thoughts and leaves it open for the influx and the guidance of Infinite Intelligence.

Todos os desejos negativos não são nada exceto frustrações de desejos positivos. Eles são inspirados por alguma forma de derrota, fracasso ou negligência por parte dos seres humanos em se adaptarem às leis da natureza de forma positiva.

Buyers generally make purchases because of some motive closely associated to their emotions.

Know, then, that when the dark night of sorrow, pain, or misfortune settles down upon your soul, and you stumble along with weary and uncertain steps, that you are merely intercepting your own personal desires between yourself and the boundless light of joy and bliss, and the dark shadow that covers you is cast by none and nothing but yourself.

MAKE YOUR DESIRES CLEAR, AND TO REDUCE THEM TO WRITING.

If I am unwilling to take responsibility for the attainment of my desires, they are not really desires—they are merely daydreams.

No one owes me the fulfillment of my wishes.

Desires and emotions as such are involuntary; they are not subject to direct and immediate volitional control; they are the automatic result of subconscious integrations. (...) It is impossible to compute the magnitude of the disaster, the wreckage of human lives, produced by the belief that desires and emotions can be commanded in and out of existence by an act of will.

As long as we hold onto our own desires and remain fixated on having our way, we will be unable to see God, even if He were to stand right before our eyes. God, in His patient, sometimes painful mercy, allows us to hold our desires as tightly as we wish until we tire of the pain and loosen our grip. Meanwhile, He holds before us a divine alternative, one that offers great abundance in exchange for the trinkets we clutch with desperate resolve.

Economics 2.0 apparently replaces the single-indirection layer of conventional money, and the multiple-indirection mappings of options trades, with some kind of insanely baroque object-relational framework based on the parameterized desires and subjective experiential values of the players, and as far as the cat is concerned, this makes all such transactions intrinsically untrustworthy.

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

Modeling is exciting, but I certainly felt frustrated that I couldn't speak out or express myself. I always wanted to express my desires in some other medium.

My mom told me, 'Make sure you do everything you want to do before you have kids.' So that's what I was doing. But biologically, the body is just like, 'Well, you should have done it.'

My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way.

'Gillespie and I' is a deliciously morbid, almost smutty story, a compendium of inappropriate wants and smarmy desires.

Most of our desires are clichés, right? Ready to wear, one size fits all. I doubt if it's even possible to have an original desire anymore.