Desire Quotes
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There are various grades of spiritual sight. One grade enables a man to see the ordinarily invisible ether with the myriads of beings that invest that realm. Other and higher variants give him the faculty to see the desire world and even the world of thought while remaining in the physical body.
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Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot; we even severely and haughtily despise others as our inferiors.
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For me, what's compelling about sexuality is the way that desire transforms what we take in through our senses, the ways in which our bodies betray us or rescue us by insisting on their own non-negotiable truths. Anything but frank or pragmatic.
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But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form.
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I have an unsatisfied desire to shoot well with a bow.
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I still have no desire to own an Apple Watch, or even any desire to go to the Apple store and look at one or hold one in my hand. ... The only question, it seems to me, is this: At what point can Apple Watch be declared a swing and a miss?
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My personal challenge as an artist has been having a day job which is intellectually satisfying and fun - and thus can easily supplant the desire to make art.
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It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
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Through prayer, our free agency is used to admit and confess our deep desire to have God's help in our lives.
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The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
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The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.
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Greatest victory which we desire, is to defeat truth and Lo! Truth is undefeated.
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There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it.
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I desire to have both heaven and hell ever in my eye, while I stand on this isthmus of life, between two boundless oceans.
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There are so many ways of classifying our tendencies, but I think one of the most telling must be this: there are those of us who do not wrestle very often or for very long with our appetites, who can simply say, Enough, and walk away, and those of us who are constantly at odds with how much we desire and what we actually allow ourselves. The gay between desire and restraint: here rages the river of discontent, one that often threatens to overflow its banks.
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It is true not all has been accomplished that the earnest advocates would desire, but a start has been made.
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She doesn't understand that doors, walls, fences, ceilings - they're helpless to keep out what determinedly desires to get in.
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Our secret desire as women is to have a guy who falls madly in love with us even though we're incredibly opinionated or we're not the sort of normal, polite, poised woman.
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I had this desire to understand Islam better and then focus on the beauty of Arabic and Islamic cultures. And one of the first things to emerge was Arabic calligraphy, which was instantly inspiring.
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Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever.
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I don't think the players play with the same desire they once did.
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My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire.
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. . . in America, we have achieved the Orwellian prediction - enslaved, the people have been programmed to love their bondage and are left to clutch only mirage-like images of freedom, its fables and fictions. The new slaves are linked together by vast electronic chains of television that imprison not their bodies but their minds. Their desires are programmed, their tastes manipulated, their values set for them.
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Light love is desire of pleasure; great love is fear of being alone.
