Top 1200 Desire To Live Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

My secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can't live without music.

What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

There are many objects of desire, and therefore many desires. Some are born with us, hunger, yearning, and pride of place, and some are of the foolishness of the world, such as the desire to eat off silver plates. Desire is a wild horse to be tamed. Virtue is habit long continued. The taming of desire is like the training of an athlete. Discipline is not the restraint but the use of energy.

To multiply the years and divide by the desire to live is a kind of false accounting.

The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage. The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final resting place.

Of course we do not live in order to eat, but it is not really true to say that we eat in order to live; we eat because we are hungry. Desire has no further intentions behind it... it is a good will.

The word desire suggests that there is something we do not have. If we have everything already, then there can be no desire, for there is nothing left to want. I think that what the Buddha may have been trying to tell us is that we have it all, each of us, all the time; therefore, desire is simply unnecessary.

And my desire,' he said, 'is a desire that is as long as a year; but it is love given to an echo, the spending of grief on a wave, a lonely fight with a shadow, that is what my love and my desire have been to me.

Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.

The willingness to listen and act on your inspiration is imperative if you're going to live the life you desire.

This is the whole secret of non-attachment: live in the world, but don't be of the world. Love people, but don't create attachments. Reflect people, reflect the beauties of the world - and there are so many. But don't cling. The clinging mind loses its mirrorhood. And mirrorhood is Buddhahood. To keep that quality of mirroring continuously fresh is to remain young, is to remain pure, is to remain innocent. Know, but don't create knowledge. Love, but don't create desire. Live, live beautifully, live utterly, abandon yourself in the moment. But don't look back. This is the art of non-attachment.

Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live

The desire to avoid meltdowns actually is one of the things that screws up live-action films.

I always thought the appeal for vampires are the same as religion, the desire to avoid death and live forever.

I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.

while we all desire to live long, we have all a horror of being old!

Sometimes, whether a desire is excessive or negative depends on the circumstances or society in which you live in.

That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.

My guess is that she is uncomfortable in such an intransigent world but is unable to live accordingly to her own desire.

An affirmation is simply a positive declaration of something you believe to be true or something you expect to become true and desire to live by. Affirmations transform your thinking, your attitudes, and finally, your behavior. Their impact on attitudes and behavior help to produce the results you desire.

What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.

The desire to be different from the people we live with is sometimes the result of our rejection- real or imagined- by them.

My will to live completely overcame my desire to win

Human will-power alone is not enough. Will-power is excellent and we should always be using it; but it is not enough. A desire to live a good life is not enough. Obviously we should all have that desire, but it will not guarantee success.

Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live.

What a desire! ... to live in peace with that word: Myself.

There are consequences to letting people live out whatever wants or passions they desire.

It is notorious that the desire to live increases as life itself shortens.

I've always had a desire to live on the outside. That's where I'm most comfortable.

The greatest poverty is not to live In a physical world, to feel that one's desire Is too difficult to tell from despair.

To live is often to struggle toward goals one has no desire to reach.

At the beginning of my career, my desire to understand was associated with a profound desire to act, with the wish to influence opinion and policy; but, over the years, this motivation has come to be of secondary importance, far behind my desire to understand.

I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

Lost are we, and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire.

Every time you have a desire come true, some part of you realizes it did not have to live in limitation.

The fact that only humans above a certain age can be morally virtuous, rather than babies or cats, means that that being moral requires some cognitive ability. If virtue is about desires, it is worth remembering that you can't desire some things without being able to conceive of them. Suppose a virtuous person will desire to make people happy and desire to tell the truth. You can't desire to make people happy without having the concept "happy" and you can't desire to be truthful if you don't have have the concept "lie", so a cat or a baby cannot desire these things.

[T]hus one should not think that desire is repressed, for the simple reason that the law is what constitutes both desire and the lack on which it is predicated. Where there is desire, the power relation is already present: an illusion, then, to denounce this relation for a repression exerted after the event.

The religious training inspired in me a desire for learning. In fact, I am immensely grateful for my Catholic education for instilling in me a desire for learning. However, the Catholic training also gave me a desire for questioning. The desire to question led me eventually to distance myself from the Catholic institution and its dogma.

I went on to discover that in its deepest sense, the will is not primarily the faculty of desire for anything known, but rather, the desire for something unknown, animate desire for something that lies beyond ourselves, a longing for something we know is missing in us.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

When God calls His child to live the life of a missionary, He gives him the desire with the calling.

Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.

Art includes everything which stimulates the desire to live; science includes everything which sharpens the desire to know. Art, even the most disinterested, the most disembodied, is the auxiliary of life.

Every living being on earth loves life above all else. The smallest insect, whose life lasts only an instant, tries to escape from any danger in order to live a moment longer. And the desire to live is most developed in man.

Tuberculosis, starvation, fatigue, and there are many who have no desire to live.

It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire; / Before you know what is left to be desired; / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind.

The human desire to know why is as powerful as the desire to know what happened next, and it is a desire of a higher order.

If you desire truly to live you will cease trying to find magic tricks and short-cuts to life and learn the simple laws of being, and order your life in conformity with these. Realign your life with the laws of nature—this and this alone constitutes living to live.

There's no great desire to own lots of stuff - and I don't. You can only live in one house and drive one car.

There is no more desire to live past one's time than to die before it.

I wake up every morning with a great desire to live joyfully.

I do believe there are things that we desire that are not in the cards. But more often than not, when people have a desire for a relationship and it's not happening, there are probably issues to be resolved and issues people could work on that would ultimately end in that desire being fulfilled.

Desire and happiness cannot live together.

If desire causes suffering, it may be because we do not desire wisely, or that we are inexpert at obtaining what we desire. Instead of hiding our heads in a prayer cloth and building walls against temptation, why not get better at fulfilling desire? Salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb.

It's not necessary for you to exacerbate your contrast with struggle in order to get it into a higher place. It is not necessary to suffer in order to give birth to desire. But when you have suffered and you have given birth to desire, so what? You've got a desire. Turn your attention to the desire. Think about where you're going and never mind where you've been. Don't spend any more time justifying any of that stuff -- Abraham

It has been said by many great Christians that prayer is our secret weapon. If we desire to be free from every enemy stronghold over our lives and fully fortified to live the superhuman existences God intended us to live, then we must learn how to pray.

There appears to exist a greater desire to live long than to live well! Measure by man's desires, he cannot live long enough; measure by his good deeds, and he has not lived long enough; measure by his evil deeds, and he has lived too long.