Top 1200 Wants And Desires Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.

I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.

Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them.

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

LOVE and LOVER live in Eternity. Other desires are substitutes for that way of being.

Freedom is within oneself. But to get beyond the thoughts and desires requires power.

I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.

Bhanurekhan never wanted to be an actress. She had different dreams and desires.

I have this demon who wants me to run away screaming if I am going to be flawed, fallible. It wants me to think I'm so good I must be perfect. Or nothing. I am, on the contrary, something: a being who gets tired, has shyness to fight, has more trouble than most facing people easily.

The fruit does not come from the outside, the fruit is created within you. Whatever you do, you develop receptivity for it inside yourself. Someone who wants love should give his love. Someone who wants bliss should start sharing his bliss. Someone who wants flowers to shower in his home should shower flowers in other people's homes. There is no other way. So compassion is an emotion that each person has to develop in order to enter into meditation.

There are some things the arrogant mind does not see; it is blinded by its vision of what it desires.

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

You only have to believe that you can succeed, that you can be whatever your heart desires, be willing to work for it, and you can have it.

...revivals (or any other spiritual gifts and graces) come only to those who want them badly enough. It may be said without qualification that every man is as holy and as full of the Spirit as he wants to be. He may not be as full as he wishes he were, but he is most certainly as full as he wants to be.

I am nothing but a miserable, crushed worm, whom no one wants, whom no one loves, a useless creature with morning sickness, and abig belly, two rotten teeth, and a bad temper, a battered sense of dignity, and a love which nobody wants and which nearly drives me insane.

It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.

Wealth and wisdom are seldom combined, for the person who achieves one no longer desires the other.

Pope John Paul II was a great presence on the stage. Pope Benedict is a much more gentle and refined person, and I think he benefits greatly from the television close-ups because he wants to engage in a dialogue, in conversation. He wants to put forward his views in a measured, eloquent, rational way.

When two people break up, it's all about them; they can't see anyone else. And the people getting smashed to bits are the kids. Then you're getting torn - your mum wants you, your dad wants you. You just get shredded. It has a long-lasting effect as well.

To bliss unknown by lofty soul aspires, My lot unequal to my vast desires.

If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.

I feel like God wants me to run for president. I can't explain it, but I sense my country is going to need me. Something is going to happen. I know it won't be easy on me or my family, but God wants me to do it.

I have always believed that somehow the less we reveal the more the other desires to see.

The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

For the first time, the object of what I want is more important than fulfilling my desires.

'A reality shaped around your own desires' - there is something sociopathic in that ambition.

Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.

Men are more ready to offend one who desires to be beloved than one who wishes to be feared.

In Las Vegas, you confront yourself with your darkest desires, because they're all possible there.

I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It's a kind of mass insecurity people want something to look up to and get a buzz off but, at the same time, want to destroy it because it makes them feel insecure.

Fairyland is the loveliest word because it means everything the human heart desires.

New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.

The world is always greater than your desires; plenty is never enough.

Music is the career I'm lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions.

The fundamental misunderstanding of humanity is believing that we can achieve all our desires without limitation.

If one day I have a daughter and my daughter wants to be a model, I would never let her! But then, if she wants to, what can I do? But definitely not until she's 18 years old. You know, every work has the bad side, and people will be mean to you, and when you're young, you don't know how to defend yourself.

I live by the spirit so I don't gratify all them old sinful desires that never satisfy.

To the soul's desires The body listens What the flesh requires Keeps the heart imprisoned

It's the big question of every TV show, right, where you have these two people who it's clear the world wants to put them together and everyone wants to see them together, but also when you're telling these stories you can't throw these people together immediately.

It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it.

That was very appreciative because all the players vote for that. That's the highest award anyone can get in the NFL. Every team in the NFL votes for the most valuable player. I was injured. I had appendicitis the first part of the season, but I came back after ten days. Nobody came back that early. No player wants to sit on the bench. No player wants to be inactive. Everybody wants to play.I came back in ten days. I had the uniform on and played. I played those next games until I got kicked in the head.

When I was going through all the divorce things, that was really hard to discuss, because nobody wants to talk about their failures. Nobody wants to talk about how painful those kinds of things are.

It is one of those simple but beautiful paradoxes of life: When a person feels that he is truly accepted by another, as he is, then he is freed to move from there and to begin to think about how he wants to change, how we wants to grow, how he can become different, how he might become more of what he is capable of being.

Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.

When man desires to live as long as a tree, his diet will be fruit.

By my makeup and temperament I wasn't really prey to physical desires. Everything happened in my head.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

Sometimes we forget that our Heavenly Father desires that each of us have this joy.

The more successful you become, the more the demands of your ego will increase. In the beginning, you simply want to succeed, but your ego will not be satisfied. When you become a little more successful your ego wants to kill your competition. And when you become even more successful, it wants to make you the universal king. There's no telling what ego wants because our desire doesn't have any limit; therefore, its demands continually increase.

The person with the most flexibility has the best chance of achieving the outcome he or she desires

The one thing that everybody wants is to be freenot to be managed, threatened, directed, restrained, obliged, fearful, administered, they want none of these things they all want to feel free … The only thing that any one wants now is to be free, to be let alone, to live their life as they can, but not to be watched, controlled and scared, no no, not.

Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one's own desires through which one listens.

The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires.

I am grateful to realize that my desires do not entitle me to add to another's suffering.

The government of the United States doesn't want peace. It wants to exploit its system of exploitation, of pillage, of hegemony through war. It wants peace, but what's happening in Iraq? What happened in Lebanon? Palestine? What's happening? What's happened over the last hundred years in Latin America and in the world?

Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch.

Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing.

You have one party that's in favor of open borders, and you have one party that wants to secure the border. And all day long, the American people are going to side with the party that wants to secure the border.

I do not believe that the desires of young boys cause catastrophic events. The actions of humans do.

Idris Elba saved my butt in a point in my career that he can do whatever he wants, and I will back his decision no matter what. He got me one of my first pretty big studio gigs, and we had never worked together... It was a time in my life where I really needed it. So whatever Idris wants to do, I'm down with.