Quotes About Desires

Covertly influencing decision processes such as that the resulting decision is aligned with higher-order desires may actually enhance autonomy.

Rescuing our noblest ideals from the encrustation of our most ancient fears is one of our hearts' most intense yet most inchoate desires.

O what a sight were Man, if his attires Did alter with his minde; And like a dolphins skinne, his clothes combin'd With his desires!

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.

When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.

Desires must be simple and definite. They defeat their own purpose should they be too many, too confusing, or beyond a man's training to accomplish.

The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.

Our real duty is always found running in the direction of our worthiest desires.

Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal likings.

It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.

One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.

It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat.

An Italian philosopher said that "time was his estate"; an estate indeed which will produce nothing without cultivation, but will always abundantly repay the labors of industry, and generally satisfy the most extensive desires, if no part of it be suffered to lie in waste by negligence, to be overrun with noxious plants, or laid out for show rather than for use.

If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than to our strength.

Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.

It is the will of our heavenly Father that we should come to Him freely and confidently and make known our desires to Him, just as we would have our children come freely and of their own accord and speak to us about the things they would like to have.

Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life.

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; the hardest victory is the victory over self.

I explained to him I had simple tastes and didn't want anything ostentatious, no matter what it costs.

When you are in alignment with the desires of your heart, things have a way of working out.

Laws are made for one purpose only (...) to hold us in check when our desires grow immoderate. As long as our desires are moderate we have no need of laws.

When you actively turn your thoughts to all the bad consequences of the desires as they arise in you, the passion for them gradually dries up. As your passion diminishes, your mind comes under control. Firm, dedicated faith (sraddha) brings you the raw force of determination, will.