Top 1200 Hearts Desire Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire.

EVERY intense desire is perhaps basically a desire to be different from what we are.

To offer our hearts in faith means recognizing that our hearts are worth something, that we ourselves, in our deepest and truest nature, are of value.

It's the desire to study the human condition, the desire for collaboration, to learn and absorb, and to lead a well-examined life.

The desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography.

It is attachment to desire, not desire itself, that is the underlying cause of practically all of our pain and suffering.

The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained.

Increase and widen your desires till nothing but reality can fulfill them. It is not desire that is wrong, but its narrowness and smallness. Desire is devotion. By all means be devoted to the real, the infinite, the eternal heart of being. Transform desire into love. All you want is to be happy. All your desires, whatever they may be are expressions of your longing for happiness.

We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more desire we have.

Humans have a strong desire to be part of a group. That desire makes us susceptible to fads, fashions, and idea contagions.

I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other peoples desire for me to do well.

Desire for increased wealth is not evil... it is simply the desire for more abundant life; it is aspiration.

When you meditate you can stand back from your desire. When you silence the mind and there is stillness, only then can you tell if a desire is dharma.

Desire is never final, desire is imprecise and impractical [...]

Desire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated.

Desire is everything, not talent. It's the degree of one's desire that will dictate the extent of one's success, in any endeavour.

If you have the desire, if you really had people with the burning desire to lower taxes, it would be done. We know the Democrats don't want to do it.

The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligation - to help them turn this desire into reality.

Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.

At the very beginning, it's a desire and that's not the same thing at all, because when you have the desire to do something, all the work you can do is a positive thing. It's not something that you calculate. An idea is something you work on to make it work and a desire is much deeper in a way. The immersion, it's classical, I watched a lot of movies.

Desire is the root of selfishness; clear your heart of desire and be selfless. Selflessness is the key to inner peace.

A healthy desire for wealth is not greed. It's a desire for life.

...till we are uneasy in Rest, we can have no Desire to move, and without Desire of moving there can be no voluntary Motion.

Law is the great civilizing machinery. It liberates the desire to build and subdues the desire to destroy.

We know that it is possible to harness desire to many interests, that evil is one form of a desire, and not the nature of it.

Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral.

As an actor, my desire was always to be different, there was a desire to associate yourself with projects that bring about the contemporary situation.

The desire definitely comes from within. There are only a few people who make it to this level and those are the ones who have that innate desire.

Men never desire anything very eagerly which they desire only by the dictates of reason.

To win you must have talent and desire ­ but desire is first.

The most evil creatures dont desire the destruction of everythingthey only desire to exploit it for themselves.

The very urge to get rid of desire is still desire, is it not?

When you imagine the reality of the fulfilled desire and feel the thrill of accomplishment, your subconscious brings about the realisation of desire.

The desire to be self-supporting and financially independent is a divine desire

Could it be that to truly love a thing is not to desire it, but to desire happiness for it?

I’m torn between the desire to create and the desire to destroy.

It's so much better to desire than to have.... The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen - that's the most exalting.

I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other people's desire for me to do well.

Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.

We don't even know what our desire is. We ask other people to tell us our desires. We would like our desires to come from our deepest selves, our personal depths - but if it did, it would not be desire. Desire is always for something we feel we lack.

The desire to belong is partly a desire to lose oneself.

We are disgusted by the things that we desire, and we desire what disgusts us.

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.

The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.

The mystical impulse in men is somehow a desire to possess the universe. In women, it's a desire to be possessed.

When you see your own desire to be happy, you can't avoid seeing the same desire in others.

True prayer is only another name for the love of God. Its excellence does not consist in the multitude of our words; for our Father knoweth what things we have need of before we ask Him. The true prayer is that of the heart, and the heart prays only for what it desires. To pray, then is to desire -- but to desire what God would have us desire. He who asks what he does not from the bottom of his heart desire, is mistaken in thinking that he prays.

Of course the shrieking desire for the scoop can get really strong, but so is the desire to safeguard connections and keep everyone happy.

God never witholds from His child that which His love and wisdom call good. God's refusals are always merciful -- "severe mercies" at times but mercies all the same. God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.

Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.

Awakening and owning the dreams that God has placed in our hearts isn't about getting stuff or attaining something. It's about embracing who we are and who he has created us to be. In him. He is our dream come true, and the one true love of our life. But we can't love him with our whole hearts when our hearts are asleep. To love Jesus means to risk coming awake, to risk wanting and desiring.

There was this interesting quote: try and live your life without fear and desire. It's this concept that's like when you look at a painting in a museum and you are held in aesthetic arrest. So the I, the ego, is stripped, is gone. The observer and thing become one. That's where fear and desire come in because you don't want to own it, possess it, desire it, and it's not moving you to fear. It's like you're in this harmonious state with the object.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake

Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkably difficult to kill.

In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.

If you want to see God, kill desires. Desires are in the mind. When you have a desire for something, don't act on it and it will go away. If you desire to drink this cup of tea, don't, and the desire for it will go away.

While we desire, we do not enjoy; and with enjoyment desire ceases.

From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.

This is a difference between us: you desire what other people have, while I desire the things I used to have, or think I might have one day.