Top 1200 Personal Desire Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

To lose yourself in a book is the desire of the bookworm. I mean to be taken. That is my desire.

The desire to keep doing what we love supersedes the desire to penalize bad behavior.

The piety of "having a personal relationship with Christ" ... is alien to the New Testament... but evangelicals elevate it to the shibboleth of salvation! Unless you have a personal relationship with Jesus, buster, one day you will be boiling in Hell. Sheesh! Talk about the fury of a personal savior scorned!

Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?

I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.

To reach satisfaction in all desire its possession in nothing, To come to the knowledge of all desire the knowledge of nothing. To come to possess all desire the possession of nothing. To arrive at being all desire to be nothing.

Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary.

The implications of likability are long-lasting and serious. Women adjust their behavior to be likable and as a result have less power in the world. And this desire to be liked and accepted goes beyond the boardroom - it's an issue that comes up for women in their personal lives as well, especially as they become more opinionated and outspoken.

It is my observation that all human hearts are the same and that their ultimate desire is also the same. This soul wants happiness, perfect and pure happiness, because only then will all desires end. As long as desire exists misery exists, because with desire there can be no peace.

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

Entirety exists within me as exuberance in empty longing in the desire to burn with desire.

I feel that talent means little unless coupled with an insatiable desire to give an excellent personal demonstration of ability...talent must be in company with a capacity for unlimited effort which provides the power that eventually hurdles the difficulties that would frustrate lukewarm enthusiasm.

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.

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

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.

Most People have a desire to look for the exception instead of the desire to become exceptional.

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

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

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

Give up all hope, all illusion, all desire..I've tried. I've tried and still I desire, I still desire not to desire and hope to be without hope and have the illusion I can be without illusions..Give up, I say. Give up everything, including the desire to be saved.

I have no desire to desire, and people become like the uncarved wood by themselves.

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

It's all so personal, isn't it? It's hard to talk about work without talking about things that are personal. Work is personal. I don't want to talk about my personal life, but it's on my mind, and it's in my work.

... the more we recruit from immigrants who bring no personal traditions with them, the more America is going to ignore the things of the spirit. No one whose consuming desire is either for food or for motor-cars is going to care about culture, or even know what it is.

Books, like all art, breed in us desire. In times of crisis and fear and misrepresentation we need desire, or else we shut down and hide out in our houses, succumbing to infotainment and the ease of an available latte, turning off our brains and emotions. Books breed desire.

I have invariably been in love when I haven't had the same reciprocated emotion at all. I don't choose to talk about my personal life because I believe that I don't want to, and I believe my personal life is personal.

The desire for transcendence is intimately connected with the desire for creativity. It is just as essential to who and what we are.

Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.

The acme of freedom from wealth is to desire to be possessionless even as others desire to possess.

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

Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.

The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.

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

All action is generated by desire. It is the desire to live that causes us to reincarnate.

We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire.

People probably long for something genuinely personal in a society where the personal is often indistinguishable from the "personalized." Maybe the poetry audience member is searching for his or her own "personal space" and they expect the poet to be a sort of avatar of the private life. But that sort of representation is distasteful to me. Asking a poet to represent the personal life is, paradoxically, to turn the poet into something other than a person.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

I am, first of all, a Christian and, secondly, a person with very very serious personal opinion, so I'm motivated by many many things and, certainly, not by the need or desire to satisfy other people's ideas of who I am.

I think we are obsessed in the U.S. with the personal, in ways that blind us to more important issues of life. I just think if we could take all the obsession with the personal (inaudible), and personal judgment and have people be concerned about the environment, what a different world we would live in.

Prayer is addressed to the personal God, not because he is personal indeed, I know for certain that he is not personal, because personality is limitation, while God is unlimited.

Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire.

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

To me, a political song is also a personal song. Most political activism has been driven by empathy for other people and the desire for a world that's less divisive. Even if songs aren't overtly political, they can make a listener more empathetic.

There’s only one thing worse than not satisfying a desire. And that is not to feel any desire.

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.

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

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Free from desire, you realize the mystery, caught in the desire, you see only the manifestations.

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

Listen. Look. Desire is a house. Desire needs closed space. Desire runs out of doors or windows, or slats or pinpricks, it can’t fit under the sky, too large. Close the doors. Close the windows. As soon as you laugh from nerves or make a joke or say something just to say something or get all involved with the bushes, then you blow open a window in your house of desire and it can’t heat up as well. Cold draft comes in.

There's definitely some pieces in there that reflect on my personal life, but really, they aren't as personal as everybody thinks they are. I would like them to be more personal. The emotions, the songs themselves are personal. I can't do it - I've tried to write personally and it just doesn't seem to work. It would be too obvious. Some things that you could read in could fit into anyone's life that had any amount of pain at all. It's pretty cliche'.

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

All you have to do is desire it, and if you desire it enough and understand why -- really know -- it will come.

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.