Desires Quotes

• Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Suicide
  • Destroy

• A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experience and memories.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Age

• The Tao is infinite, eternal. Why is it eternal? It was never born; thus it can never die. Why is it infinite? It has no desires for itself; thus it is present for all beings. The Master stays behind; that is why she is ahead. She is detached from all things; that is why she is one with them. Because she has let go of herself, she is perfectly fulfilled.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Die
  • Desires
  • All Things

• You can't say no if you don't have desires and opinions and wants of your own. You wouldn't even want to. No is the heart of thinking.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Thinking
  • Own
  • Opinions

• May all your expectations be frustrated, may all your plans be thwarted, may all your desires be withered into nothingness, that you may experience the powerlessness and poverty of a child and sing and dance in the love of God who is the Father, Son and Spirit.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Experience
  • Child
  • Frustrated

• Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

  

  Thomas Malory
  • Men
  • Love
  • Reason

• Jesus Christ, Lord of all things! You see my heart, you know my desires. Possess all that I am - you alone. I am your sheep; make me worthy to overcome the devil.

  

  Agatha of Sicily
  • Heart
  • Lord
  • Desires

• I have always believed that somehow the less we reveal the more the other desires to see.

  

  Annette Messager
  • See
  • Desires
  • Reveal

• They all talked at once, their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an incontrovertible fact, as people will when their desires become words.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Possibility
  • Voices
  • Contradictory

• Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.

  

  Alexander Graham Bell
  • Animal
  • Desires
  • Man Is

• Superfluous money buys wasted time, propelling desires that otherwise lay buried beneath the feet of honest toil.

  

  Cyril Smith
  • Money
  • Honest
  • Feet

• Every room has a mood or personality...and it is this that one desires to develop.

  

  Eleanor Brown
  • Personality
  • Desires
  • Develop

• While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Choose
  • Desires
  • Aspirations

• Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Achieve
  • Accomplishment
  • Develop

• Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Lead
  • Flight
  • Mortals

• She who desires to see, desires also to be seen.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • See
  • Desires

• Love is of something, and that which love desires is not that which love is or has; for no man desires that which he is or has. And love is of the beautiful, and therefore has not the beautiful. And the beautiful is the good, and therefore, in wanting and desiring the beautiful, love also wants and desires the good.

  

  Plato
  • Beautiful
  • Love Is
  • Desires

• I have spent many years holding so tightly to things - wants, desires, etc. - but inevitably, they or something even better only arrives when I release the grasp.

  

  Allison McAtee
  • Desires
  • Wants
  • Grasp

• WE HAVE SEEN that hunger and breathing are desires of the body. There are other desires that are not of the body, but again man seldom pauses to observe these desires in himself.

  

  Barry Long
  • Body
  • Desires
  • Breathing

• Mans desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Perception
  • Desires
  • Limited

• The problem is the way we let our desires stand in the way of our enjoyment of what we already have.

  

  Brad Warner
  • Problem
  • Desires
  • Enjoyment

• This is a meeting to discuss and compile the issues and desires that will arise under county ownership of Conaway Ranch.

  

  Bob Schneider
  • Desires
  • Ownership
  • Discuss

• The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression.

  

  Eric Maisel
  • Artist
  • Personality
  • Depression

• If one desires to receive one must first give. This is called profound understanding.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Understanding
  • Desires
  • Receive

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