Desire Quotes
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The reason we can't attain the highest level of knowledge while incarnate is that we can't then wholly escape the influence of the body (and so of perception and of certain desires that take us away from thinking properly); and that prevents us from understanding fully what forms are, which one must do in order to have the highest level of knowledge.
Gail Fine -
If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill let yourself fall ill.
Rumi
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My definition of financial freedom is simple: it is the ability to live the lifestyle you desire without having to work or rely on anyone else for money.
T. Harv Eker -
The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
Anne Carson -
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo -
I crave the indulgence of my senses but this is countered by an interior desire that is even keener than my senses to know the meaning of things
Errol Flynn -
What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
My wife, there's certain kinds of housework that she just doesn't see as necessary to do in the way that I do. Things like the state of our closet or where things are in the kitchen. I have this almost unhealthily obsessive desire to have things in their place and she just totally doesn't. And this is a potential point of conflict, of course.
Ian Bogost
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To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
Ivan Turgenev -
The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air.
Wilbur Wright -
When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward detective novel.
Patti Smith -
In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead; the one being an innate desire of pleasure; the other, an acquired judgment which aspires after excellence.
Socrates -
A heart filled with desire for sweetness and tender souls must not waste itself with unsavory matters.
Rumi -
To bear the cross means that you refrain from doing what you have the power to do. You are qualified to fulfill your desire, yet you refrain from doing so. A person like this is the strongest person. The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has the power to do.
Watchman Nee
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It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that men become fully human.
Anthony Malcolm Daniels -
I think we all have a primal desire to know as much as we can to find out about where we come from.
George C. Wolfe -
The hybridoma technology was a by-product of basic research. Its success in practical applications is to a large extent the result of unexpected and unpredictable properties of the method. It thus represents another clear-cut example of the enormous practical impact of an investment in research which might not have been considered commercially worthwhile, or of immediate medical relevance. It resulted from esoteric speculations, for curiosity's sake, only motivated by a desire to understand nature.
Cesar Milstein -
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual's desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
William James -
We desire to give the Soviet people absolute liberty of voting for those they desire to elect, those whom they trust to ensure their interests.
Joseph Stalin -
Many of our constituents have one option for cable TV and one price. Our constituents desire choice.
Melissa Bean
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Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth.
Epictetus -
What I've found is there is no barometer that allows you to chart when you're oversaturating a desire. You're left really trying to respond on a gut level, because by the time you might do research, it's already too late. There's also a healthy tension between what are very sound business objectives and a very amorphous desire to preserve what's special.
Christopher Meledandri -
It (Tao) is eternally without desire. So, it can be called small. All things return to it, although it does not make itself their ruler. So, it can be called great.
Lao Tzu -
I think the acting satisfies the need and desire for approval.
William Shatner