Desires Quotes

It's good to dream. We can't out-give God. We can't out-love him, and we can't out-dream him.

~ Stasi Eldredge

Angel dust blown a sunder,Nestling on the edge of unchartered dreams,Filtering the dileneation between ones desires & needs.

~ Truth Devour

I grinned. “So you are human after all.” I touched his chest, feeling him breathe hard in and out. “I always thought you were made of steel, you know,” I said.“Superman?” Nat arched his eyebrows.“No, the Tin Man,” I answered back. I settled my head against his chest, turning my ear to listen to his heartbeat. “I sometimes wondered if you had a heart.” - Summer, Perfect Summer

~ Kailin Gow

Oh, those grumblers! They all take principles as motives and dare not follow their desires.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I AM FREE and all that I desire is lining up to meet me.

~ Sanjo Jendayi

All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allow

~ Toni Morrison

You can posses what you desire.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is not what you wish it to be , rather it’s what you make it.

~ Steven Redhead

You will find what you look for.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The subjects range from the pastoral (sniffing of the butt of a melon to tell if it's ripe. and almost romantically lush descriptions of lightening storms sweeping across fields on summer nights) to elaborations on the value of man's having a life of his own, apart from whatever life he has with his family, a private life that no one knows anything about, a place he can be himself without concern of disappointment or rejection.

~ A.m. Homes

Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices telling us what we require to be satisfied, voices that may drown out the faint sounds emitted by our souls and distract us from the careful, arduous task of accurately naming our priorities.

~ Alain De Botton

For dreams, too, are ghosts, desires chased in sleep, gone by morning.

~ Libba Bray

I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?

~ Neil Gaiman

As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.

~ Georgette Heyer

...and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.

~ Donald Miller

You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires.

~ Tom Stoppard

Even the most pragmatic person fell victim at times to a longing for something other.

~ Kate Morton

To want is to have a weakness.

~ Margaret Atwood

Only God is capable of telling us what our rights and needs are. You have to surrender that right to Him.

~ Joni Eareckson Tada

This is why it's good manners to give gifts in wrappers: so that, for a moment, that beast in all of us that makes us feel alive and keeps us from becoming angels can be satisfied. While a gift is in a wrapper, it can be anything, even that one indescribable thing that will make us happy enough to die in peace.

~ Dexter Palmer

The real distinction between being great and being less great seems to be the extent to which we are willing to be pushed along by our own desires.

~ Melanie Brown

I like desires like childrenand their playsthat tease me now and then intoknowing life.

~ Suman Pokhrel

If you ignore what a man desires, and you deny the very source of his power.

~ Walter Lippmann

So as long as you have not attained to desirelessness, as long as you have not renounced desires completely, you will go on taking births and wandering in different bodies. And howsoever different the forms of the body may be, their basic condition is always the same. The ills of the body are the same, regardless whether it’s a bird’s body or man’s. There is no difference in their miseries, because the fundamental misery is only one: the soul becoming confined in the body, the entering of the soul into the prison of body. A prison after all is a prison; it makes no difference whether its walls are circular or angular no matter what you think.

~ Osho

As humans we are inclined to feel that life must have a point. We have plans and aspirations and desires. We want to take constant advantage of all the intoxicating existence we've been endowed with. But what's life to a cell? Yet it's impulse to exist, to be, is every bit as strong as ours - perhaps even stronger. Life just wants to be.

~ Bill Bryson

Jean's desires, like those of all men in love, were concentrated on the impossible.

~ Marcel Proust

One thing that gives meaning to our thinking, drive our understanding, and determines what makes us happy or unhappy is the very thing we seek to have, and we yearn for to be happy and feel alright. Aside that thing, life, the understanding of life, and how life should be lived is different all together.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

When you give up your desires for the cause of making God known, revealing Him to your nation, you will surely be rewarded

~ Sunday Adelaja

Throughout the life we keep asking for something or other from God but often forget that he has already given us the best thing at our birth - A beautiful Life.

~ Mishra Ankit

One thing I am sure of is that when a long-standing desire gets fulfilled, it is certainly a moment of happiness but it may not lead us to eternal happiness, which lies in our heart, mind and thoughts.

~ Balroop Singh

Frogs, ducks, rhinos, octopuses – whatever you desire. The world will be built new for you every morning. If you stay here, you can have whatever you want.’ Coraline sighed. ‘You really don’t understand, do you?’ she said. ‘I don’t want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted? Just like that, and it didn’t mean anything. What then?

~ Neil Gaiman

The demarcation between a positive and a negative desire or action is not whether it gives you a immediate feeling of satisfaction but whether it ultimately results in positive or negative consequences

~ Dalai Lama Xiv

The dead praetor raised his sword. ''Our desires reveal us. They show us for who we really are. Someone has come come for you, Jason Grace.

~ Rick Riordan

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

~ Epicurus

Take notice of those intuitive whispers from the heart, they represent your true desires.

~ Steven Redhead

Get in touch with your intuitive and creative powers, bring your desires to life in order to create a life of bliss.

~ Steven Redhead

Action is what will produce your desired results.

~ Rosette Mugidde Wamambe

Life may become difficult when you are out of sync with your heart-felt desires.

~ Steven Redhead

Life can become difficult when out of sync with your heart-felt desires.

~ Steven Redhead