Desire Quotes
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The desire for constant action irrespective of underlying conditions is responsible for many losses in Wall Street even among the professionals, who feel that they must take home some money every day, as though they were working for regular wages.
Edwin Lefevre
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We're all born with selfish desires, so we can all relate to those feelings in others. But kindness is something made individually by each person. So it's easy to misunderstand when others are trying to be kind to you.
Natsuki Takaya
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Truth is always truth, untruth is always untruth. This is what matters, this is right desire.
Gautama Buddha
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You desire to be learned, wealthy, and great, without labor; it is one of the follies still extant in the world.
George Pope Morris
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When there is no desire, all things are at peace.
Lao Tzu
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Both desire and imagination are stored in the mind of the individual and when stretched, both have the potential to position a person for greatness.
Eric Thomas
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That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this -- that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.
Seneca the Younger
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There is absolutely nothing that you desire that you cannot achieve.
Esther Hicks
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We must first experience the kingdom if we are even to know what kind of freedom and what kind of equality we should desire. Christian freedom lies in service, Christian equality is equality before God, and neither can be achieved through the coercive efforts of liberal idealists who would transform the world into their image.
Stanley Hauerwas
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My greatest desire is that you would encounter His presence; and everything about your life would be different.
Karen Wheaton
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Upon the whole, therefore, she found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself. It was consequently necessary to name some other period for the commencement of actual felicity; to have some other point on which her wishes and hopes might be fixed, and by again enjoying the pleasure of anticipation, console herself for the present, and prepare for another disappointment.
Jane Austen
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For if there is ever a moment when we are most vulnerable, it’s when we’re closest to the idea of the attained desire, and thus farthest from ourselves, which is when we’ll tread through any flame.
Chang-Rae Lee
