Desire Quotes

Any type of desire is beggary. One who is without any desire is called ‘Gnani’ [the enlightened one].

~ Dada Bhagwan

As long as there is greed (desire) for even a single situation, one will have to come back into the world and wandering will continue until then.

~ Dada Bhagwan

In regards to maan (to seek importance from others), a man will become impudent if he keeps getting insulted up to a point. If he gets maan (importance from others) to a certain level, he grows stronger. And if he gets too much maan [praise], then his desire for it will come to end.

~ Dada Bhagwan

One has to attain an ego-less state (nir-ahankari), attaining a nir-maani state (a desire-free state that wants importance from others) is not enough. The egoism one has of being nir-mani is very subtle. The external ‘horns’ are worn down but the internal ones still remain. The inner ‘horns’ will cause an internal biting.

~ Dada Bhagwan

The one who is worthy of worship by people has no desires. The one who is unworthy of worship has desires.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Any halfway clever devil would decorate the highway to Hell as beautiful as possible.

~ Criss Jami

I cannot tell whether diamonds appeared in his eyes or mine as the shine of adoration became the icon one sees in history, a Byzantine sparkle, Medieval armor against all odds.

~ Alice Shapiro

Stop explaining to others, people will only understand from their level of discernment.

~ Abhysheq Shukla

Fear is the most prodigious enemy of our soul

~ Abhysheq Shukla

Respect is reverence out of love, Fear is reverence out of hate.Choose Wisely

~ Abhysheq Shukla

In humans (and humans alone), sexuality is embodied in desire--in the primordial desire for life-as-relation. That the sex drive serves the vital desire for relation--that on the level of the primordial process, the desire for life-in-itself clothes itself in the sex drive--belongs to the particularity of being human.

~ Christos Yannaras

Lust is a mysterious wound in the side of humanity; or rather, at the very source of its life! To confound this lust in man with that desire which unites the sexes is like confusing a tumor with the very organ which it devours, a tumor whose very deformity horribly reproduces the shape.

~ Georges Bernanos

Whatever you want, you must have the desire to work for it.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you desire to be rich with joy, you have to be truly dedicated to God and His work

~ Sunday Adelaja

If we do not desire to work in order to receive these things, God will be powerless to help us

~ Sunday Adelaja

It is the nature of human beings to want, to desire.

~ Brownell Landrum

He longed for cleanliness and tidiness: it was hard to find peace in the middle of disorder.

~ Robin Hobb

Words have power, and when you speak you give them life. Speak into the atmosphere. Speak into existence what you believe, desire, dream, and hope.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Dream, desire, and then dare to discover.

~ Debasish Mridha

When you desire to help, you will find a way to do it.

~ Debasish Mridha

A blooming flower pleads, oh thee! Look at me, to see the beauty, Kiss me like a bee, To feel the bliss, To taste the nectar of life And just to feel and be. Kiss me like a wave kisses the shore In an endless dancing sea, again and again, just to be.

~ Debasish Mridha

Have you ever thought, thought your heart would break? Wished you could cut open your chest tear it out to stop the pain? Why don´t you riot like everyone else. I don't care, life's too long. You can have any man you want. I want him...except him. Always suspected the world didn't smell of fresh paint and flowers. Smells of piss and human sweat If there could have been more moments like this.

~ Sarah Kane

The person with an itch can't understand why everyone's not scratching.

~ Marty Rubin

I was born into this torrid world a degenerate, eternally condemned a vessel of belligerency, destined to one day end. But despite my mortal disposition, I possess my voice. I have that which is gifted to me from the bosom of the gods. The beauty of self-expression. And through this gift I will come to know and share the true nature of reality

~ Evan Guerra

And yet, I have not wronged you, have I? Indeed if there is anyone I may have sinned against, it is me. That desiring you as I do, needing you as I do, I still let you go.

~ Ama Ata Aidoo

If you think of the moon as already used, it’s not as difficult to take in, because then it’s just like you,Traveled the world like you,Seen the globe like you,But, it’s still bright.

~ Adrianna Stepiano

It is in the nature of man to want what he does not have. This modern concern for happiness seems a real testimony of its absence.

~ Criss Jami

What's simple is that everything good comes from God, and everything bad comes from man. Where it gets complicated is that everything seemingly good but ultimately bad comes from man, and everything seemingly bad but ultimately good comes from God.

~ Criss Jami

Lords of fire and earth and water,Lords of moon and wind and sky,Come now to the Old Man's daughter,Come from fathers long gone by.Bring blue from a distance eye.Lords of water, earth, and fire,Lords of wind and snow and rain,Give to my heart's desire.Life as all life comes with pain,But blue will come to us again.

~ Madeleine L'engle

She found a dark satisfaction in pain—because that pain came from him.

~ Ayn Rand

By the moonlight he watched his wife for the last time. His hand sought the adjacent flesh and sorrow paralleled desire in the immense complexity of love.

~ Carson Mccullers

All I need to dois place my pen against paperand your lovewrites for me.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Marriage is the harmony of God synchronizing two wills with the will of the Father.

~ Ravi Zacharias

With you, I am. Without you, I am not.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Whenever you keep score in love, you lose.

~ Kamand Kojouri

The only path wide for us all is love.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Why didn't you write all this time?Did you not remember us in a song?A dance?In the skies littered with stars?Did you not get drunk?Why didn’t you write all this time?Did you not remember us in a film?A book?In idyllic dusks and dawns?Did you not get high?It is good that you didn't.For all is well. I am drunk and dazed.I have already forgotten youand your bewitching ways.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Like a pair of old slippers,I feel comfort andwarmth as I slip into you.No, that is too crude.Like the match to the wick,I ignite when we touch.My counterpart andlife's purpose.Yes, as though I've known you my whole life.Every scar, every failurehas become an affirmationof what should be:You.Yes, as though I've loved you my whole life.

~ Kamand Kojouri

When you love someone, you end up caring about each and every person they love. When you hate someone, you end up caring about every single person who hates them.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and why we do want, between what we officially admire and secretly desire, between, in the largest sense, the people we marry and the people we love.

~ Joan Didion