Top 1200 Hearts Desire Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to lead.

I don't have the desire to be the best standup in the UK but I do have the desire to be the best at everything else I do in terms of writing and acting.

The desire for truth is the highest of all desires, yet, it is still a desire. All desires must be given up for the real to be.....When all search ceases, it is the Supreme State.

Unscientific man is beset by a deplorable desire to have been right. The scientist is distinguished by a desire to be right.

Desire can't be sated, because if it is, the longing disappears and then we've failed, because desire is the state we seek.

Desire is suffering. A simple equation, and a nice catchphrase. But flipped around, it is more troubling: suffering is desire.

Boredom is desire seeking desire.

For though, as we have said, all children are heartless, this is not precisely true of teenagers. Teenage hearts are raw and new, fast and fierce, and they do not know their own strength. Neither do they know reason or restraint, and if you want to know the truth, a goodly number of grown-up hearts never learn it.

This war has been motivated by pride or arrogance, by a desire to control oil wealth, by a desire to implant our programs. (talking about the Iraq war)

Always without desire we must be found, If its deep mystery we would sound; But if desire always within us be, Its outer fringe is all that we shall see.

Open your hearts, open your hearts, then only you can enjoy yourself.

We are all, always, the desire not to die. This desire is as immeasurable and varied as life's complexity, but at bottom this is what it is: To continue to be, to be more and more, to develop and to endure. All the force we have, all our energy and clearness of mind serve to intensify themselves in one way or another. We intensify ourselves with new impressions, new sensations, new ideas. We endeavour to take what we do not have and to add it to ourselves. Humanity is the desire for novelty founded upon the fear of death. That is what it is.

Desire means the way to go out; desire is the path that leads you out. If your mind is still desiring, you cannot move within.

We need to get our hearts straight. And after we get the hearts straight, we can treat each other straight.

One of the greatest motivators is desire. If the desire is strong enough you will do whatever it takes to achieve. Just connect your actions with your true desires.

Reason is no match for desire: when desire is purely and powerfully felt, it becomes a kind of reason of its own.

The desire for money may be an indication of greed, but I want to argue that greed is a much more subtle vice than simply the desire to be rich.

Conservatives, who have presumed that the key to preventing AIDS is abstinence-only education, and liberals, who have focused on distribution of condoms, should both note that the intervention that has tested most cost-effective in Africa is neither... Secular bleeding hearts and religious bleeding hearts will have to forge a common cause.

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.

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.

Desire is the creator; desire is the destroyer.

Words are coin. Words alienate. Language is no medium for desire. Desire is rapture, not exchange.

So long as your desire to explore is greater than your desire to not screw up, you're on the right track.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.

The desire for self-esteem without integrity is like the desire for wealth without effort-a longing for the unearned.

We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.

There is no limit to desire but desire's needs.

Apology may start as a feeling, a desire to make matters right, but it requires a commitment to move that desire into practice, to actually take on the great courageous task of showing compassion to others.

Olympia thinks often about desire - desire that stops the breath, that causes a preoccupied pause in the midst of uttering a sentence - and how it may upend a life and threaten to dissolve the soul.

All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.

I don't know what happened, but I lost the desire to acquire more things. It's very peaceful to have lost that desire.

A true desire is not to have but to be. We are whole creatures in potential, and the true purpose of desire is to unfold that wholeness, to become what we can be.

Lovers feel a certain burning in their hearts. A deep longing and desire to meet with the beloved creates that burning. To love God is bound to create a very great fire in you. You will be on fire because you have chosen as your love object something impossible. You will have to weep and cry, and you will have to pray, and you will have to fast, and your mind has to continuously repeat and remember the beloved.

I’m the thing you most desire, you represent the thing I least desire, death. It’s just the opposite of love.

Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.

To desire grace without recourse to the Virgin Mother is to desire to fly without wings.

I don't think we set out to make 'The East' in order to necessarily change people's hearts; I don't know how much movies actually change people's hearts. We wanted to make something that was thrilling and got you to thinking.

It is easy for desire to be caught like a bird in a net, its wings fouled and twisted, no longer free to cross back and forth between silence and word. Desire may also find itself so amputated by tradition and community that it wanders in a void with nothing to orient it, to shape or discipline it. Desire must find ways to navigate its bitter and sweet paradox: it moves toward but also always through and beyond every object.

Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?

I am not for any form of repression, but I sometimes think the desire for liberation masks the desire for oblivion. It's very hard to tell the difference sometimes.

There is no neediness in desire ... there is no caretaking in desire. Caretaking is mightily loving, [but] it's a powerful anti-aphrodisiac.

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.

A decision is the focusing of the Energy of desire, and the decision point happens when the desire is powerful enough.

Strength is not nearly as important as desire. I don't think you can teach anyone desire. I think it's a gift. I don't know why I have it, but I do.

To wish is of little account; to succeed you must earnestly desire; and this desire must shorten thy sleep.

We should desire very few things passionately if we did but perfectly know the nature of the things we desire.

Praying, is recognizing yourself to be that which you desire to be, rather than begging God for that which you desire.

The greatest contribution we can make to the wellbeing of those in our lives is to have peace in our own hearts. When our hearts are filled with gratitude and our minds are brimming with enthusiasm, everyone we encounter leaves our space feeling a little bit lighter than when they entered it.

To run away from life and desire is impossible because you are life and you have desire. Accept that this is part of your physical condition and see that these aspects are not really indigenous to what you are.

Bliss becomes blissful with practice. In our own bliss the desire, desirer and process of desiring are united - they are one. Desire is fulfilled at its source.

Your dream is a good one. [. . .] The desire that is the very root of life itself: To grow until all the space you can see is part of you, under your control. It's the desire for greatness.

I do not desire to die soon, because in Heaven there is no suffering. I desire to live a long time because I yearn to suffer much for the love of my Spouse.

The volume of credit depends upon three factors: the desire to borrow, the ability to lend and the desire to lend.

The opposite of heterosexual desire is the eroticising of sameness, a sameness of power, equality and mutuality. It is homosexual desire.

Take a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long time Identify that desire and use modern technology to take out steps.

To be constantly without desire is the way to have a vision of the mystery of heaven and earth. For constantly to have desire is the means by which their limitations are seen.

I can still feel unsure in myself, and l'm still insecure about certain things, but my desire to be happy and my desire to be free is very strong.

It is to have a compulsive, repetitive, and nostalgic desire for the archive, an irrepressible desire to return to the origin, a homesickness, a nostalgia for the return to the most archaic place of absolute commencement

However widespread the desire to be free, that is wholly different from a desire to live in a society where others are free.

There are women who inspire you with the desire to conquer them and to take your pleasure of them; but this one fills you only with the desire to die slowly beneath her gaze.