What a face this girl possessed!—Could I neither die then nor gaze at her face every day, I would need to recreate it through painting or sculpture, or through fatherhood, until a second such face...

Sometimes the very presence of God is barred by our presuppositions and our intense and constant desire for triumph.

The mind confines our outlooks to a mere bundles of desires, pleasures, prejudices, and fears to safeguard the body it inhabits.

Another point; you desire that I should come to your houses, you pray to Me to do so, you grieve when I do not come, you start reviling yourself that you are poorer than others,...

How much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve the level of success you desire?

Be like the flower, content with its nature.

Sexual expression is so powerful a way of bonding with others and so devastating a way of hurting others that it can never be reduced to a mere matter of personal preferences. Sexual desires have...

Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these things, as a child loves jam, but because they think they ought to have...

Desire is both imitative (we like what others like) and competitive (we want to take away from others what they have). As children, we wanted to monopolize the attention of a parent, to draw it...

Peeta actually is charming and then utterly winning as the boy in love. And there I am, blushing and confused, made beautiful by Cinna’s hands, desirable by Peeta’s confession, tragic by circumstance, and by all...

The most important principle for self discovery and to taste success is rather than changing other’s attitude changes your own. And always remember same sun which melts the butter also hardens the clay

Life doesn’t walk away, we do.

I believe that I am mad,” said Vertue presently. “The world cannot be as it seems to be. If there is something to go to, it is a bribe, and I cannot go to it:...

No marketplace, free or otherwise, is good when it fails to consider the basic human state of needs at every stage of life.

The gained Desire becomes bore a day…..

He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.

We are bodies, sometimes with dreams and always with desires.

I have outlasted all desire,My dreams and I have grown apart;My grief alone is left entire,The gleamings of an empty heart.The storms of ruthless dispensationHave struck my flowery garland numb,I live in lonely desolationAnd wonder...

I’m sure you’ve heard people talk about their Heart’s Desire—well that’s a load of rot. Hearts are idiots. They’re big and squishy and full of daft dreams. They flounce off to write poetry and moon...

I’m just not going to do it so that we can say that we’ve done it. And I’m not going to do it if the first thing you say afterwards is ‘please don’t tell anyone’...

I feel life trembling within me, in my tongue, on the soles of my feet, in my desire or my suffering, I want my soul to be a wandering thing, able to move back into...

No permanence is ours; we are a waveThat flows to fit whatever form it finds:Through night or day, cathedral or the caveWe pass forever, craving form that binds.

Love without humility results in the inclination to act as everyone’s parent, humility without love results in the need to be everyone’s child, and love with humility results in the desire to be a friend.

Can you still want something you already have? Absolutely. Everyday.

I will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages. Rabia

Phaedra keeps saying she’s being selfish. That she hates herself for it, but she does it anyway. She can’t deny herself what she wants, even if it brings about her downfall and his.” “And have...

Things are sweeter when they’re lost. I know–because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in...

There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.

In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great.

We all want to be the best at something. Trouble is, some people are only the best at being second best.

God puts desires into your heart. His desires will actually become your desires, and your desires will be His.

Your Heart’s Desire is the Voice of God, and that Voice must be obeyed sooner or later.

Most Wanted.” It’s good to be desired. I’d be honored to be shot at for a large reward, or a small cup of coffee.

Your desire is your prayer. Picture the fulfillment of your desire now and feel its reality and you will experience the joy of the answered.Dr. Joseph Murphy

I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close.

You are the sun before risethe sun before setthe moon before lightthe sea before shoreflower before floresome before thingYou are everything

As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.

I want it all and I want it now.” A whole culture is being infantilised.

Love springs from the inside. It is the immortal surge of passion, excitement, energy, power, strength, prosperity, recognition, respect, desire, determination, enthusiasm, confidence, courage, and vitality, that nourishes, extends and protects. It possesses an external...

I love the quietude of misty dawn before the sober sun is up… The morning songs of birds awakening in blooming garden sets my soul gently… Aroma flowers with glistering of the dew… Deep full...

Killing, raping and looting have been common practices in religious societies, and often carried out with clerical sanction. The catalogue of notorious barbarities – wars and massacres, acts of terrorism, the Inquisition, the Crusades, the...

After we met, we never had any desire to date anyone else. We just knew we were supposed to be together.

This was what the poets couldn’t put in their poetry, she thought dumbly, the rush of desire so fierce and pure it made one shake, all on the force of a word.

While waiting for Brenna to prepare the drink he did as directed and worked through their conversation. It would’ve gone faster had he not kept getting distracted by the sight of her moving with feminine...

[One recent survey says,] people are tired of news, … Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.

put out the candles with your fire—I’m on fire

Be careful what you wish for. Especially out loud.

If you love something, you find a way to have it in your life. Opposers may take away your means and tools, but you simply turn to crude replacements, fashioning them from scraps if necessary....

It didn’t matter that she was undersized. Her desire to perform and achieve were big.

You know what, your imagination works faster than your mind.