He made what apology he could and hurried home, overjoyed that the satisfaction of his curiosity had preserved their love intact, and that, having feigned for so long, when in Odette’s company, a sort of...

Christianity set itself the goal of fulfilling man’s unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignored his attainable desires. By promising man eternal life, it deprived him of temporal life, by teaching him to trust...

In this stillness that is at the same time movement, in this darkness that is at the same time light, change is found not in the realm of ideas but in the energizing desire that...

To become desireless, to not want anything external to ourselves, means we rest in ourselves, whole, joyous and happy. In this state, our true nature is constant love, unending love, giving love.

Sometimes you don’t even know what you want until you find out you can’t have it.

You always have a burning desire to do well, … It wouldn’t matter if it was the first year, second year, third year.

We preoccupy ourselves with what we had — or what we want to have — at the expense of what we have.

So dancing was not something I had a great desire to do.

Motivation is desire or inspiration. A motive is a reason. What’s your reason?

Dou comigo a pensar se figuras de estilo não serão, afinal, as silhuetas dos corpos humanos que tão ardentemente desejamos ou abominamos.I find myself wondering if figures of speech are not, after all, the silhouettes...

Desire should be allowed to roam freely. The range is endless .

The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.

I love to dance. But I don’t like being up in front of tons of people. I didn’t have the desire to be performing in front of a lot of people. So it wasn’t something...

Let temporal things be in the use, eternal things in the desire.

Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.

Desire as a motivator for achievement and even for survival isn’t a bad thing. It’s when desire drives us to grab more than our share or harm others that issues arise.

It has always been a mystery to me how Adam, Eve, and the serpent were taught the same language. Where did they get it? We know now, that it requires a great number of years...

It has become necessary for me to have this woman, so as to save myself from the ridicule of being in love with her: for to what lengths will a man not be driven by...

I have no desire to ever talk to Sean Penn.

To be successful in life, plan, implement, revise, update, and build on change.

As long as we have MEMORIES, yesterday REMAINS and as long as we have HOPE, tomorrow AWAITS…

You know you love something if you’re willing to die for it, and you know it means nothing if you walk away from that which is dying.

what was a rose but the living proof of desire, the single best evidence of human longing and earthly devotion. but desire could be twisted,after all, and Jealousy was the name of the rose that...

Lust for possession and greed has ravaged the soul of humanity like a great cancer, metastasizing throughout society in the form of a nouveau post-human, consumer hedonism.

I still enjoy playing and I still have a desire to play.

My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.

And silence. She liked the silence most of all. The silence in which the body, senses, the instincts, are more alert, more powerful, more sensitized, live a more richly perfumed and intoxication life, instead of...

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

There is only as much space, only as much time, Only as much desire, only as many words, Only as many pages, only as much ink To accept all of us at light-speed Hurrying into...

I reached for her, pushing back the fall of hair-it was heavy and thick and smooth to the touch-and tilted her chin so that the moonlight shone on her wet face. We married each other...

Excuse me,’ I said cheerily. ‘Is the job still going?’ I pointed to the notice.‘Of course,’ he said, looking back at me with a warm smile. I think he was as hopeful as I was...

Patience can be bitter but her fruit is always sweet.

To succeed in everything we do, we must have a desire to dream of things some would think are impossible.

In Clint’s arms, Josie discovered what the kiss of a man should feel like. Fire: unadulterated, skin-scorching, tummy twisting, panty wetting fire. He kissed her as if she were the most desirable woman in existence....

Over the boundary of time,Hope transcends,Desire sings,One verse,One song,And that is the song of happiness.

Although we may wish for more or strive to do better than we have, in these times it is enough to keep your soul.

I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly with something that was called genocide in those days.

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind – this is a choice which...

The desire to criticise becomes less and less as the character is developed. It is the mark of a fine character never to be critical and to mention but rarely the faults of others. A...

She waited for him with shallow breaths, head thrown back, eyes half closed, completely exposed in her trust of him, and it unravelled the last thread holding him together.

Everyone lusts. Everyone Fantasizes. When your lover respects you, you should feel free to explore your desires. No matter how extreme.

Why are desire scales 1-10? They should be 1-12, like a clock, because I want her 1-12, I mean like all the time.

If you don’t feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the...

Supporting God’s Scriptural ability to give or restrain man’s desires, Jerry Bridges points to an amazing verse tucked away in Exodus 34:24. As Israel’s people abandon their defense entirely to have a feast before Him...

It just goes to show, if you have the drive and the desire, we have the resources here at the University.

You can get what you want. You have to passionately seek the life you desire.

Can we ever see the truth when desire blinds us? Or do we call it the truth because it is what we wish to see?

Let me tell you what I want,’ he said fiercely. ‘For a start, I want you. I told you that, but perhaps I didn’t make myself clear. I want the whole package, hang-ups, fears and...

But the insane need to do it was stronger than the sense of whether it was a wrong or right thing to do.

The outcome should not drive the action. Your desire to achieve the outcome should. The outcome depends on many variables, most of which are not in your control. Do what you need to do because...