Desires Quotes
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"That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong."
"It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed."
"What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior."
"What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve."
"All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.[Conversation with Elizabeth Farnsworth, PBS NewsHour, March 9, 1998]"
"I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are."
"Never give up. It's like breathing—once you quit, your flame dies letting total darkness extinguish every last gasp of hope. You can't do that. You must continue taking in even the shallowest of breaths, continue putting forth even the smallest of efforts to sustain your dreams. Don't ever, ever, ever give up."
"Inside of all of us there is the need and the desire to be heard, to have our innermost thoughts, feelings and desires expressed for others to hear, to see and to understand. We all want to matter to someone, to leave a mark. Writers just take those thoughts, feelings and desires and express them in such a way that the reader not only reads them but feels them as well."
"Become the leader of your life. Lead yourself to where you want to be. Breathe life back into your ambitions, your desires, your goals, your relationships."
"The aching in my chest isn't because I miss you,it's realizing that you have become someone I no longer know,your fears, your 4 am thoughts, your achievements,are things I no longer have an equivalent to.Who we were and who we are are four different people, and the me from now doesn't relate to the me from then, let alone to the you from now.-Tanzy Sayadi and Jarod Kintz"
"lean in to kiss mein all the placeswhere the acheis the most special."
"Tie me up, please..."Chantal said. They looked above at some vines and roots hanging down from the grassy area above the depression in the canal they were standing in. She was in his hands—he had to comply.A little bit of kink was one of the most delicious of erotic pleasures. Catholic school girls were often the horniest—Brett could hardly contain his elation."
"You do not get what you wish for, unless it be known to the source of your desire."
"Always have faith in yourself and the universe, for one will not get you anywhere without the other. Both must be equally strong to reach your desires, for they are the wings that will lift you to your dreams."
"While spirituality provides an efficient and endless fuel for your mind and body, you must burn that fuel with human action towards your goals, dreams, and desires."
"The typical atheist rebels against God as a teenager rebels against his parents. When his own desires or standards are not fulfilled in the way that he sees fit, he, in revolt, storms out of the house in denial of the Word of God and in scrutiny of a great deal of those who stand by the Word of God. The epithet 'Heavenly Father' is a grand reflection, a relation to that of human nature."
"You can actually create the life you want. It all depends on how daring you desire it."
"Hope is the boat we ride to reach the shore of our desires."
"Be willing for purpose; it pays huge returns on investment. And along the journey, those who dis your willing sacrifice(s) will ponder their own foolishness."
"We've had enough." He took back the report and jammed it under his arm. "We've had a bellyful, in fact.""And like everyone who's had enough," said Control as Alleline noisily left the room, "he wants more."
"Your wishes and desires make clear who you are."
"If you don't know what you want, you'll never find it.If you don't know what you deserve, you'll always settle for less.You will wander aimlessly, uncomfortably numb in your comfort zone, wondering how life has ended up here.Life starts now, live, love, laugh and let your light shine!"
"We are saved to live the rest of our earthly lives not for lustful desires but for godly good works in will of God."
"There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else."
"Your mind can be your enemy or friend. If you always follow your heart, your mind will feel neglected. If you follow only your mind, your heart will never forgive you. Never ignore your conscience, yet always be conscious of reason. Make your heart and mind friends and you will have peace of mind throughout life's seasons."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"Relinquishing selfish wants, one is free to allow others to travel their own paths under the will of God. (18)"
Prem Prakash, The Yoga of Spiritual Devotion A Modern Translation of the Narada Bhakti Sutras
"The godly shall desired God."
"If we delight in God, He shall give us our hearts desires."
"Everyone desires significance but not everyone is ready to go through the process of being ‘pregnant’ with the requirements that would make them to be significant."
"Focus on your portal, trust the process, don't get so involved in the desires or beliefs of others that cause you confusion and compromise your own alignment. - - The universe loves a believer!"
"You can never get enough of what you really don't want. Identify what it is you're actually craving. This will save Time, Energy and Resources."
"Every human being desires love and happiness."
"A man desire two things: love and happiness."
"Expectation and disappointment are far from friends but they are close relations."
"A house is never small or empty, when filled with love."
"This is the secret of happiness that you have been looking for:If you are moving in the direction of your identified desires, you're happy in this moment.If you're moving in opposition to your identified desires, you are unhappy in this moment."
"What God has planned for us is far better than what we desire to behold."
"What a delight to desire to pray?"
"Later, you told me what your mother had said. How your father, the farmer, rose up slowly. You told me how your mother wailed on the other end of the phone, grieving her loss and complaining about the basketball of a goitre perched on her shoulder. She told you, your father walked onto the veranda and saw a chook floating ten feet above the ground. The chook didn’t flap a feather and just sat there brooding, swaying in the breeze."
"Despite all of our incessant tinkering, we can’t manufacture the things we most desperately need. And if perchance we do, they will never be more than pathetically emaciated facsimiles that will leave us emaciated. And until we finally realize that we can only ‘find’ these things, we will never sense any compulsion to ‘find’ God."
"God is my strength and my defense. When I am weak, he makes me strong. When I am broken, he makes me whole."
"If we throw blankets over our children's dreams, we darken their world and extinguish their desire to live."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"Millions of business people are each constantly forced to choose between their desire to not be a bad person and their desire to be a good business person, that is to say, to make as much money as they possibly can by maximizing their revenue while minimizing the cost of producing whatever it is that they sell."
"Once you know what you want in life...Like a magnet you attract the resources necessary to manifest the world you desire."
"Desires move us from one station to another in this life while we search for beauty, love, and happiness."
"I sail on the ocean of possibilities with the wind of hope and the current of desires moving me to the shore of uncertainty."
"Challenges come our way when we least expect them; our insecurities, desires, balance, & conscience are tested in the process."
"I want to read every book that’s writtenhear every song that was sungI want to gaze at every cloudand hold the zing of each fruit on my tongue."
"My goals exceed the reach of my energies, but my God exceeds the reach of my goals."
"In the absence of faith, our dreams will move from feasible aspirations to implausible fantasy."
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