Desire Quotes

Use the imagination to picture only what is good, what is beautiful, what is beneficial, what is ideal, and what you wish to realize. Mentally see yourself receiving what you deeply desire to receive. What you imagine, you will think, and what you think, you will become. Therefore, if you imagine only those things that are in harmony with what you wish to obtain or achieve, all your thinking will soon tend to produce what you want to attain or achieve.

~ Christian D. Larson

By using repetition, images, and other strategies - all of which communicate truths in ways that are not cognitively or propositional - marketing forms us into the kind of persons who want to buy beer to have meaningful relationships, or to buy a car to be respected, or buy the latest thing to come along simply to satisfy the desire that has been formed and implanted in us. It is important to appreciate that these disciplinary mechanisms transmit values and truth claims, but not via propositions or cognitive means; rather, the values are transmitted more covertly...This covertness of the operation is also what makes it so powerful: the truths are inscribed in us through the powerful instruments of imagination and ritual.

~ James K.a. Smith

I seek to be moved, my imagination reborn.Let me feast on poems that feed my hunger.

~ Susie Clevenger

Public transit situates us so that we are given license to accept what's right in front of us, but will likely arouse our desire to compare our narrative to someone else's, to give ourselves permission to speculate upon a person's private space, or life, with no fear of recourse or punishment.

~ Julie Wilson

There were so many other people in my life.I had spent all of my time listening,learning the longings we all have in common.I never took the time to hear them in myselfand I heard them speaking to him.The desire for desire, that hopefor hope, the possibility of everythingtruly possible. I had so many friends,so many nods and conversations,so many things I’d always wantedto say to someone.

~ David Levithan

Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.

~ Albert Camus

I incessantly look for water in wells dug by men, and I have drunk enough sand to prove it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

...then he stretched himself alongside her to smoke a cigarette with all the ceremony of an opium dreamer.

~ Anaïs Nin

There's no way that you're real,” she murmured to his crotch.

~ Rose Wynters

He gave Dancer one last pat. 'You're luckier than you know, pal. Living without a set of balls makes life a lot less complicated.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Men, we don't need you in shining armor.We just need you a little bit brave, just a little bit brave.

~ Virginia Madsen

Deep in his heart, every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.

~ John Eldredge

There's mainstream pornography--soft-core airbrushed fluff such as Penthouse and Playboy. The folks makin' this stuff do men and their range of desires a disservice; their implication is that anything outside the big hair, fake tits, tiny waste, no pores, limited body hair aesthetic is deviant, weird, not normal--and not something that a red-blooded American man would be interested in. The common boys-will-be-boys explanation for porn--that men get turned on visually (in contrast to feminine mode of arousal, which is mental and emotional)--is nothing more than an insult, making men out to be Pavlovian dogs who salivate uncontrollably and strain at their trousers upon contact with nudie pictures.Antiporn arguments, however well-meaning, are no better. Folks like Catherine MacKinnon also believe that men are inherently drawn to porn. And to them, porn is by definition violent, suggesting that it's somehow in men's nature to be aroused by hurting others. Furthermore, antipornography activists think that porn leads men to commit violence--as if men have no self-control or capacity to separate fantasy from reality, as if an erection is a driving force that can't be stopped once it's started... The only difference is one of perspective: Antiporn folk believe that male sexuality is always threatening, while men's-magazine editors think it's always fabulous.

~ Lisa Jervis

The heart of a man is a small thing but it desires great matters. It is not big enough for a dog’s dinner but the whole world is not big enough for it. Man spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills to attack, he kills to defend himself, he kills to instruct himself, he kills to amuse himself, he kills for the sake of killing. From the lamb he tears its guts and makes his harp resound; from the wolf his most deadly tooth to polish his pretty works of art; from the elephant his tusks to make a toy for his child.(...)And who will exterminate him who exterminates all others?

~ Paul Hoffman

If she could find a man who could feel and laugh as well as desire, she might even think about thinking about marriage.

~ Melanie Rawn

Desire to always be on the right way no matter how tough it gets. A very slow movement on the right way is better than overwhelming speed on the wrong path!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Change the size of your dreams if that’s what’s keep you static. Go for bigger dreams, but start in a small way. See the bigger picture and live by the desire to become excellent!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

God is not interested in the seeds he put in you, He is interested in the fruits that must come out of you!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The desired shape of your dreams is different from the supposed shape of another person’s dream. When shaping your own, you may watch the process of another person’s dreams, but keep eyes away from the destination.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The desired shape your dreams take is directly proportional to the practical presentation of the theoretical skills that you have learnt.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

It is difficult to love someone who loves you, but easy to hate someone who loves you, and love someone who hates you.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Your bread assumes the shape of the pan in which you bake your flour. Therefore stand still and know that you can't use a rounded pan and ever get squared bread. Change the pan and get your desired shape of the bread!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Your passion is measured by the difference between your willingness to take actions and your desire to quit. When your desire to quit outweighs your willingness to persist, you are ripe for failure!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Superiority complex does not mean pride although it appears to be so in the eyes of those who want to see it so. When you feel a higher esteem over the obstacles you desire to surmount, you highly overcome them and can still count a reserved energy to spare!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You must dare the impossible. With divine grace, it will be possible.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

New York is more than a state of mind. It is the completion of a dream. ( New York at arm's length of desire )

~ Erik Pevernagie

Can angels lie spine to spine?If not, how they must envy us humans

~ Kamila Shamsie

It is as if, oddly, you were waiting for someone but you didn’t know who they were until they arrived. Whether or not you were aware that there was something missing in your life, you will be when you meet the person you want. What psychoanalysis will add to this love story is that the person you fall in love with really is the man or woman of your dreams; that you have dreamed them up before you met them; not out of nothing — nothing comes of nothing — but out of prior experience, both real and wished for. You recognize them with such certainty because you already, in a certain sense, know them; and because you have quite literally been expecting them, you feel as though you have known them for ever, and yet, at the same time, they are quite foreign to you. They are familiar foreign bodies.

~ Adam Phillips

With God the vision is possible to realize.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When you find yourself in the thickness of pursuing a goal or dream, stop only to rest. Momentum builds success.

~ Suzy Kassem

Yes, I'm sure [the princess] thinks daily of a delinquent midget apprentice growing up to claim her hand ahead of all the nobles and princes of the realm. What could any of them possibly give that you don't have, except titles, land, wealth and all that.

~ Jonathan Renshaw

Desire, believe and receive it.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Pain is something that we all feel sometimes; however, some of us see it as an opportunity for mental growth, while others interpret theirs as a definite end to their goals, dreams or desires.

~ Hafiz

If you love something, you find a way to have it in your life. Opposers may take away your means and tools, but you simply turn to crude replacements, fashioning them from scraps if necessary. Threats only make you steal moments of secrecy to satisfy your love. And if it means but a morsel here and there, you accept each crumb gladly because nothing else can even begin to satisfy your hunger.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Go for the desire you dare to dream.

~ Debasish Mridha

Write about the desire you dare to dream.

~ Debasish Mridha

Happiness is there when your dreams, hopes, and desires are compatible with your actions.

~ Debasish Mridha

If he took her into his arms, he would keep her. He wouldn't let her suffer the way the other mortals had when he'd left them. He would keep her, with his court's permission or without it. Irial wouldn't take her, and Keenan wouldn't stand between them.

~ Melissa Marr

Miki-san... do you truly want that person's dream to come true? Or is it that you want to be that person's savior for making that dream come true? If you're going to fulfill someone else's dream, that's the time when it's most important to be sure you know your own wish. The two might seem the same, but they're entirely different.

~ Magica Quartet

I would far prefer to be in someone's arms than just in their head.

~ D.s. Mixell