Quotation Explorer - 'Desires'

Let your actions be for a purpose and let them be taken with passion. Develop the habit of making the best use of your chances and your desires will come to pass! - Israelmore Ayivor
Boredom: the desire for desires. - Leo Tolstoy
Success is the byproduct of desires, purpose-oriented actions, and persistence. - Debasish Mridha
I'm a chamaleon, ever-changing, always evolving, and eager for the next phase of metamorphosis. This is me, imperfections, inconsistencies, passion, and desires. I make myself happen, because if I didn't you can be damned sure nobody else would. - Sai Marie Johnson
Cherubs fan our foolish fires, filling hearts with mad desires. They prick our pride and haughtiness with quick, angelic naughtiness. - John Biccard
Future never desires to become a past. - Munia Khan
Contentment is the foundation of true Happiness. The Happiness that comes from fulfilling desires can never be permanent.- - RVM
To show courage you must be in tune with your core values, understand your own fears and desires, committed to your integrity and tenacious in your ability to live it all in the face of oppostion. - -Shandel Slaten
This is the postmodern desert inhabited by people who are, in effect, consuming themselves in the form of images and abstractions through which their desires, sense of identity, and memories are replicated and then sold back to them as products - Larry McCaffrey
Slavery remains rife, the shackles are just different. Labels and desires have replaced the cuffs and chains. - Aisha Mirza
When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve. - Napoleon Hill
It is not good for man to cherish a solitary ambition. Unless there be those around him, by whose example he may regulate himself, his thoughts, desires, and hopes will become extravagant, and he the semblance, perhaps the reality, of a madman - Nathaniel Hawthorne
All earthly desires are but streams, but God is the ocean. - Jonathan Edwards
A flower is beautiful not because she knows what the new fashion is, but because she knows the desires of your heart. - Debasish Mridha
The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who was vulnerable enough to become human and die, and Who desires to be present to us in our ordinary circumstances. - Kathleen Norris
There is nothing more powerful than this moment your living, now, more powerful than your convictions and truths, spend time with what your heart desires and souls screams for. Life ends a day before we know it, it's so important to chase everything that matters to you. - Nikki Rowe
He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence. - William Blake
Health isn’t about being perfect with food or exercise or herbs. Health is about balancing those things with your desires. It’s about nourishing your spirit as well as your body. - Golda Poretsky
She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it. - Harper Lee
The artist must be blind to "recognized" and "unrecognized" form, deaf to the teachings and desires of his time. His open eyes must be directed to his inner life and his ears must be constantly attuned to the voice of inner necessity. - Wassily Kandinsky
Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times. - Niccolò Machiavelli
Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in your category of strong desires. You must set in operation a process of competition, from which one must emerge a victor and the other set be defeated. - Robert Collier
The fact regularly faced in telling people first the odd truths is that some don’t openly reflect, but most outrightly reject; and when it turns out to be correct publicly, they accept only to give often its credit to a person who desires but doesn’t deserve respect. - Anuj Somany
Stress the right of the individual to select only what he desires to know, to use any knowledge as he wishes, that he himself owns what he has learned. - L. Ron Hubbard
Hope is the boat we ride to reach the shore of our desires. - Debasish Mridha
There are those dreamers who make excuses for why they aren't passionate about or creating anything to match their desires and then there's those dreamers who stay up late just to finish a goal that will get them up the next set of stairs. We all have dreams but not everyone makes it a reality. - Nikki Rowe
Pursue your heart's deep driving desires with joy and love. - Debasish Mridha
The one who is worthy of worship by people has no desires. The one who is unworthy of worship has desires. - Dada Bhagwan
God desires to use every believer to spread his kingdom everywhere in a grand manner. - Sunday Adelaja
You are nothing but your desires, dreams, thoughts, and beliefs - Debasish Mridha
Burn your fear of failure with the fire of desires that open the door of success. - Debasish Mridha
Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way. - Rosa Parks
Your perception about the world creates your thoughts, your thoughts create your desires and intention, and your intentions manifest as your reality. - Debasish Mridha
The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve. - Brian Tracy
People shouldn't analyze their desires. They should just live. - Marty Rubin
The imagination simplifies our endless desires and causes us to fantasize that they can be fulfilled. - David Brooks
We should be agnostic about those things for which there is no evidence. We should not hold beliefs merely because they gratify our desires for afterlife, immortality, heaven, hell, etc. - Julian Huxley
When a woman is romantically subdued, all she does at that moment is under the influence of her desires. - Michael Bassey Johnson
I love silent conversations accompanied by a soft caress on my skin and my head on your chest listening to your heart desires. - Nomthandazo Tsembeni
There’s not a single good thing about fear. Fear is a habitual liar and a destroyer of a purpose-filled life. Don’t entertain fear. You’ve got to protect your dreams, goals, and the desires of your heart. Be brave in all things! - Stephanie Lahart
Manifest plainness,Embrace simplicity,Reduce selfishness,Have few desires. - Lao-tzu
He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. - John Milton
When my heart yearn for silence in a crowd full of cheerful people, thats not the lonliness i seek but want to feel the rustling of my abandoned desires pouring upon the broken hearts. All the noise i want to here now is the symphony of love and of healing. - Annie Ali
The only walls which bind us and stop us achieving our hearts desires are the walls we build for ourselves - Teresa Clyne
As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life. - John Ortberg
I am gazing-- desires unaware of destiny frisk about my mindscape like children. - Suman Pokhrel
Take your desires for reality!" can be understood as the ultimate slogan of power. - Jean Baudrillard
Thinking is an exercise of an imaginative mind to empower dreams and desires. - Debasish Mridha
The mouth is but a megaphone to the desires of the heart. - Kevin Thoman
Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfilment of animal desires. - Alexander Graham Bell
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty. - Frank Herbert
When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.
The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires. - Pope John Paul II
Psalm 37:44 Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. - LaNina King
Have the STRENGTH to say no to the status quo. Have the WILL to listen to the deepest desires of your heart.Have the COURAGE to ACT on and live out your intent. - Richie Norton
Paranormal romance gives me the opportunity to explore love outside of its traditional boundaries. Common themes are hunger and uncontrollable desires, but I like to push further into wounds that cannot be healed and the way love can still find its way into the cracks of a fractured soul. - Stephanie Draven
Self-control is a divided battle in one body. The "self" produces desires that "you" must battle with and kick off. Two wrestlers in one body. Just imagine. It's difficult, though rewarding! - Israelmore Ayivor
When we confuse the needs with the desires; all the struggles we take lead to failure and disappointment. - M.F. Moonzajer
Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterward propagate it.
All the repressed emotions and subconscious desires in time lead to some kind of psychological or physiological breakdown, if kept unchecked. - Abhijit Naskar
You don’t come to live here [New York City] unless the delusion of a reality shaped around your own desires isn’t a strong aspect of your personality. 'A reality shaped around your own desires' there is something sociopathic in that ambition. - Zadie Smith
What I am saying is, ‘Know the science’. Know what is Soul (The True Self) and Non-Soul (Everything other than the Soul). Upon knowing this, all desires will vanish. - Dada Bhagwan
The language, feminine desires to speak, and her first phrase to express her love to him - *blush* - Saravana Kumar Murugan
In the history of a soul’s evolution there is a critical point of the human incarnation that decides for us whether we stay there, go down or progress upwards. There is a knot of worldly desires impeding us; cut the knot by mastering desires and go forward. This done, progress is assured. - Virchand Gandhi
Do not constantly question why your desires have not manifested, although you should keep a vibrational connection to them. - Stephen Richards
You are correct in saying that desires often come from things we cannot easily gain - mine, being that of your love. By all accounts, I do wish I could steal it. But I am not that sort of man. I will wait. Forever and a day...I will wait. - Renee Vincent
It was a desire, an echo, a sound; she could drape it in color, see it in form, hear it in music, but not in words; no, never in words. She sighed, teased by desires so incoherent, so incommunicable. - Virginia Woolf
A person who has the slightest fear of insult cannot be called a Gnani [the enlightened one] and a person who desires self-recognition [maan] is not a Gnani [the enlightened one]. - Dada Bhagwan
When you are in love, your eyes see him only, your ears hear him only, your mouth speaks of him only, your mind thinks of him only, your heart desires him only, your soul lives for him only; your entire universe revolves around him only. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Commas' nourishes your desires and full-stop kills. - Chandan Sharma
Your life is always under construction. It is your job to learn how to untangle the threads and weave a tapestry that matches your desires. - Dannye Williamsen
I say illusion of choice because, in many cases, the nature of their choices hardly reaches the level of will, but of merely perfunctory activity. For the most part, their desires are not too strong, they are too weak, apathetic and easily placated. They often can be tempted into doing Nothing. - Geoffrey Wood
Desires to which we cling closely can easily prevent us from being what we ought to be and can be; and on the other hand, desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer.Lack of desire is poverty. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Tapping into the power of love in your heart, will ignite your desires and activate your actions towards creating life on your terms. - Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied. - Henry George
Are deepest desires are: someone to understand us, someone to appreciate us, someone to inspire us, and someone to enjoy what we are. - Debasish Mridha
Desires must be fuelled with discipline - Henrietta Newton Martin -Senior Legal Consultant & Author
You will find your true spirit when you lose your egocentric, self-centered desires and fill your mind with pure love and non-judgmental thoughts. - Debasish Mridha
Everything humanity have achieved is achieved by dreams, desires, and actions. - Debasish Mridha
Every heart beats and radiates love every moment. Every human being desires your love every second. - Debasish Mridha
There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside. - Upton Sinclair - The Jungle
Life is nothing but a dance of hope, desires, and love. - Debasish Mridha
If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth. - Democritus
Only by maintaining positive thoughts, by dispelling doubt and negativity, will you impress your desires upon the universe, making it bend to your will. - Stephen Richards
Do you have all that you desire? The health, the home, the career or the relationship? Look to where you're investing your time the most, is it dedicated to achieving those desires? - Rob Liano
If your will is your deepest pure desires, then it will manifest in its own due time. - Debasish Mridha
People fall in love with you not because they admire you, it is because they found their desires inside of you. - Debasish Mridha
Drink your Desires to taste your self! - AnkitMishra
Peace and happiness are our eternal desires. - Debasish Mridha
Delight yourself in the Lord.He shall give you all the desires of your heart. - Lailah Gifty Akita
To live in joy and fully manifest our true potential, we must let go of our desires and attachment to the past and the future and be excited about living in the unknown. - Mada Eliza Dalian
A kiss is a flower of love, a sweet song of two hearts, and a memory of eternal desires. - Debasish Mridha
Intention and awareness are the two tools that enable us to create anything our heart desires from the universe. - Russell Eric Dobda
Never lose hope. Never forget the power of intentions and desires. - Debasish Mridha
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens. - Alphonse de Lamartine
You cannot pursue all your goals simultaneously or satisfy all your desires at once. And it's an emotional drain to think you can. Instead, you must focus on long-term fulfillment rather than short-term success and, at various points in your life, think carefully about your priorities. - Eric C. Sinoway
It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbors, or even our relations. - Bertrand Russell
I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires. - William Shakespeare
Children can be shaped into any way one desires. - Anonymous
Happiness is there when your dreams, hopes, and desires are compatible with your actions. - Debasish Mridha
The most fundamental problem is not that we don’t have a system to run but those with knowledge are cynically manipulating the system for petty personal desires. - Nilantha Ilangamuwa
It's really seeing student involvement as a variety of opportunities that are appropriate for each given student and responsive to their individual needs and their desires for their educational experience. - Adam Fletcher
The driving desires of human hearts are to be loved and appreciated. - Debasish Mridha
let your desires be His prayer in you. trust them. let them take you by the hand.let them walk you forward into the next moment, and the next, and the next, and the next... - Kate Mullane Robertson
It's just human. We all have the jungle inside of us. We all have wants and needs and desires, strange as they may seem. If you stop to think about it, we're all pretty creative, cooking up all these fantasies. it's like a kind of poetry. - Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
Death is the final dance of dreams, desires, loves and hopes. - Debasish Mridha
One must count ones riches by the means one has to satisfy his desires. - Abbé Prévost
If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home, and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here! It's wondrous...with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross; but it's not for the timid. - Q
I want to reconcile the violence in your heart.I want to recognize your beauty's not just a mask.I want to exorcise the demons from your past.I want to satisfy the undisclosed desires in your heart. - Matthew Bellamy
A flower blooms because she dreams and desires to do so. Nothing happens without a dream. - Debasish Mridha
You can put off your dreams, your desires, your careers, your farms. You can avoid your responsibilities, obligations, promises, and sovereign rights. But any person who wants to make music, and doesn't, is a goddamned fool. - Jenna Woginrich
With your own wish and desires, never accept alternative offered chances, only stand strong to making your own choice into reality. You will stand a chance to be what you wish to be with your own words. - Auliq Ice
Everyone believes very easily whatever he fears or desires. - Jean de La Fontaine
Material things may satisfy your temporal desires, but none can be taken with you when you're gone. Build your hopes on things eternal ! - Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Your dreams are your desires but life takes you down to facts. - Rashi Bishnoi
Think of it." Now he is speaking to you, no one but you. "It may not matter what we want for science, or what we think is ethical. All we must do is provide the right environment, and let the heart do what it desires. The heart wants to beat. - Stephen Kiernan
To truly motivate others 1) discover what their motives, desires & drivers are 2) genuinely connect with and support them from the heart. - Rasheed Ogunlaru
God so much desires to use you that he isn't thinking of using you just anyhow or somehow. - Sunday Adelaja
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion. - Rebecca West
Never allow your desires to lead you away from God; allow nothing else to control you other than God and His Word. No matter what you see or pass through, don’t allow them to define you. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Delighting in the Lord, knowing His Word, and committing yourself to Him are ways to ensure that your plans and desires for yourself match God’s plans. - Elizabeth George
Your deep driving desires and actions determine your destiny. - Debasish Mridha
Desires are done by the ‘Pudgal’ (non-self mind-body-complex), so how can they be suppressed? If You (the Self) are the one doing the desiring, then why don’t you stop it? But that doesn’t happen therefore, desire is a matter pertaining to the Pudgal (non-self mind-body-complex). - Dada Bhagwan
Life is a fairy tale that was written by hopes, dreams, and desires. - Debasish Mridha
They think that if they were allowed to do anything they desired, they would be satisfied and the more desires the better. But all desires divorced from The Desire eventually collapse in on themselves. - Geoffrey Wood
Just let go of the oars. Whenyou‘re no longer paddling against the Current, when you release your oars and relax into your ownnatural Well-Being, the Current, which is ever moving in the direction of that which you havebecome and all that you want, will carry you toward your desires. - Let Your Feelings Be Your Guide by Esther and Jerry Hicks
We read to under­stand our intu­ition of the world, to dis­cover that some­one a thou­sand miles and years away has put into words our most inti­mate desires and our most secret fears. Reading is a col­lab­o­ra­tive act. - Alberto Manguel
He needs little who desires but little. - Cleanthes
God desires that man should be. God does not wish to be alone. The meaning of existence is the conquest of loneliness, the acquisition of kinship and nearness. - Nikolai A. Berdyaev
my heart has no bones, so, I wonder -- what is it that keeps it from collapsing in on itselfLove -- the same Love the that pulls me out of gentle slumber,calls me into the shape of its desires, and holds me true…. - Kate Mullane Robertson
Hope with deep driving desires is an order of the most delicious delicacy in a restaurant we call the universe. - Debasish Mridha M.D.
Your life is not a result of your potential, skills or desires, but of your consistent expectations and actions, which largely flow from your values and beliefs. - Christopher Babson
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self. - Aristotle
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be. - Anna Louise Strong
Has not Nature proved, in giving us the strength necessary to submit them to our desires, that we have the right to do so?
Just because someone desires you, it does not mean that they value you.Read it over.Again.Let those words resonate in your mind. - Nayyirah Waheed
You may be suffering in silence, BUT GOD desires that you OVERCOME OUT LOUD - Ladye Lindsey
Sharing feelings, conveying appreciation and whispering desires are all crucial components of a satisfying encounter with your beloved. - Brownell Landrum
Every human desires peace and happiness, but only a few have the goal to attain those. - Debasish Mridha
We mustn’t just simply pray, but rather ask God about His desires and plans. This is the prayer of enquiry - Sunday Adelaja
I shall not set my desires on things of the world. - Lailah Gifty Akita
The highest form of prayer is to the goodness of God. . . . God only desires that our soul cling to him with all of its strength, in particular, that it clings to his goodness. - Ann Voskamp
Your life is always under construction. It is your job to learn howto untangle the threads and weave a tapestry that matches your desires. - Dannye Williamsen
Dharma is precisely this 'discipline of ordered existence', a 'belief system that restrains and gives coherence to desires. - Gurcharan Das
Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones. - Plato
The power of our subconscious thoughts and desires attracts good luck. - Debasish Mridha
Don't limit your imagination,the best part of your life,is living your desires. - Ebelsain Villegas
Challenges come our way when we least expect them; our insecurities, desires, balance, & conscience are tested in the process. - April Mae Monterrosa
Only through a steady mind and constant faith can your desires manifest. - Stephen Richards
All people have similar desires and needs. They only pursue them in different ways. - Debasish Mridha
To rise above the conflicting desires of others, there must be no conflict about your own. - Stephen Richards
May this night come wearing drunk cloak of love, carrying passionate desires, and intoxication of love! Tonight, may I get so drunk in love that I do not see any dreams! - Suman Pokhrel
Our minds control us with desires and fears. - Debasish Mridha
Dreams are chequered commentary made in sleepAlong the deeps of our desires, moving like riddles through a magic gladeLightly they touch the leap of hidden fires. - John Bradburn
Honesty is the key to Happiness. Be always truthful to yourself, to your feelings, emotions, needs and desires & to others, no matter what! - Lily Amis
The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews. - W.H. Auden
Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers. - Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Obstacles (antray) are indeed due to desires. As desires keep on decreasing, so do the obstructions (antray) keep on getting destroyed. Then, everything is acquired (at that stage). - Dada Bhagwan
The more passions and desires one has, the more ways one has of being happy. - Charlotte-Catherine
Desires stay unaware of man’s fragile existence authored by scarcity - Suman Pokhrel
Dare to dream again.For dreaming is the language of your soul,And nothing your soul truly desires could ever be wrong or impossible. - Jacob Nordby
Bow your head down and SEE, Your Ego will vanish.Shed your EYES a little, Your heart will MELT. Resten your Teeth and SEE, Your health will improve. Stop your Tongue and SEE, Conflicts will be passed away.Shorten your desires and SEE, There will be a world of Happiness. - Sandy Raman
Having a strong spirit, we can control the desires of the flesh. - Sunday Adelaja
Why have many saints been so perfectly contemplative? Because they always studied to mortify themselves from worldly desires, that they might freely, with all the power of their heart, tend to our Lord.
Those who feel nothing, gain nothing. Think about this. If you do not feel, your desires don't exist and cannot be rewarded. - R.A.Delmonico
You may not know what exactly is to come to you for your good deeds of gratitude in life; therefore, your thoughts must stay positive which equals positive results. This is the ultimate gift from within, which teaches you patience as you manifest your desires. - ~Author, Erika A. Garcia
Life is such a journey on a sea of constant waves and splashing desires. - Nadina Boun
God's will is your deepest desires. - Dan Brown
We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. - Albert Einstein
Meditation is an essential travel partner on your journey of personal transformation. Meditation connects you with your soul,and this connection gives you access to your intuition, your heartfelt desires, your integrity, and the inspiration to create a life you love. - Sarah McLean
The world we see is a painting colored by our fears and desires. - Tim Fargo
Delight in your sensuality, in the dance of your desires. Don't be ashamed of it. - Marty Rubin
Marketing's illusive promise is that this one product will change your life, make you feel more sexy, satisfy all your heart's desires. - L.G. Durand
Success is not just having all your heart desires, you may be financially capable, but you still reside in the apartment of failures if you don't give out some dough to those roaming the streets. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Dreams, desires, destiny, and difficulties in life make it a magical and meaningful fairytale. - Debasish Mridha
A man's power is in the half-light, in the half-seen movements of his hand and the unguessed-at expression of his face. It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires. - Hilary Mantel
I always look towards the light of my desires, so I never forget where I'm going. - Imania Margria
Na, it's not about the human desires; it's about the desires being used to get rid of loneliness, insecurity and lack of love we often feel. - Saurabh Sharma
I sail on the ocean of possibilities with the wind of hope and the current of desires moving me to the shore of uncertainty. - Debasish Mridha
Have a magnificent holiday! Celebrate as if holidays are a reflection of your dreams, desires, traditions, and values all wrapped in happiness and joy. - Debasish Mridha
90% of what we do daily is not what we think, it's just driven by our desires and not potentials. - Auliq Ice
Speak it into existence and your words, through your desires, will bring it into fruition. - Sovereign Voice
Anyone who wishes to destroy humanity's past, desires to destroy its future. - Mario J. Lucero
Life is a drama of love, hopes, dreams, desires, and fears. To enjoy it, be bold to overcome fear. - Debasish Mridha
Enlightenment doesn’t make us a better person if we seek it just for us. It doesn’t erase our desires or put an end to even our own suffering. In fact it is the suffering that ennobles us. - Balroop Singh
Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself another, deeper, more interesting life than the one that actually surrounds him. - Konstantin Stanislavski
You don’t come to live here unless the delusion of a reality shaped around your own desires isn’t a strong aspect of your personality. 'A reality shaped around your own desires' there is something sociopathic in that ambition. - Zadie Smith
Our food is transformed from the moment when its sowed, cultured, grown, until its ready to serve.Our desires are likewise. - JKJaiswal
Love is the dance of the spirit on a stage called heart with the songs of mind to satisfy our eternal desires to belong. - Debasish Mridha
Trust your fears. When a quiet voice whispers, "you are being used", listen. Ignore your baser desires. - Michael R. Fletcher
God desires to use you is to use you in the best possible fashion. - Sunday Adelaja
Desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions. - Dallin H. Oaks
I will gladly deal with the inconveniences that may attend living my life as I see fit, rather than be the kind of man who would forsake his own desires in order to seek or preserve the acceptance of lesser men.~ - Dave Champion
Good sex is about knowing each other's deepest and kinkiest desires. - Abhijit Naskar
The universe wants you to succeed. So listen to her deep driving desires and be a great success. - Debasish Mridha
Ageing shouldn't drain out your desires. With ageing one should do things which they have never explored or always wanted to do. - Premchand Shetty
People shouldn't question their desires. They should just live. - Marty Rubin
The way to conquer sin is not by working hard to change our deeds, but by trusting Jesus to change our desires. Follow Me, pg. 111. - David Platt
All desires originate to seek betterment unconsciously. In awareness, the same desires dissolve into realization. - Gian Kumar
Letting go of your desires will allow them to come to you much quicker - Steven Aitchison
Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values. - Louis D. Brandeis
Desires and wishes don’t lead to success. Plans and efforts do. Create a vision, chalk out an action plan, put in your best efforts and give yourself a headstart in achieving your dreams. - Roopleen
Life is a game of dreams and desires. - Debasish Mridha
If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires. - Epicurus
Two seeds destined to grow in concert, planted together in the field of love.’ She took in a lungful of air and continued. ‘The sky cast wet buckets of dreams and desires, the roots took shape, and the leaves tangled as one. - Christina Lee
A good man cares about others. A good man has not only selfish desires. He is not only centered in himself. A bad man has no concern for others. He has only selfish concerns. He is centered in his own world. - Swami Dhyan Giten
Whether you realize it or not, your ongoing battle with unbelief drives all your sinful thoughts, emotions, desires, and actions. - James MacDonald
Regardless of whether luck or coincidence is involved, desires directed in the right way have a tendency to manifest. - Stephen Richards
The difference between greed and ambition is a greedy person desires things he isn't prepared to work for. - Habeeb Akande
For a Comfortable Journey of Life,Just Reduce the Luggage of Desires. - Ednan Ali
He who desires is always poor. - Claudianus
For your love I have uprooted all my desires, I am no more demanding... - Seema Gupta
We all have a dark side that the moon smoothly changes... because its always there and as a divine female it embraces all our fears until love prevails... All hidden, all in silence… just as the heart desires... - Konstantinos Kyriakou.K.K
It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates. - Nisargadatta Maharaj
In the strength of thine on desires is a magic power. - George S. Clason
I regret to say I'munable to reply to your unexpressed desires. - Harryette Mullen
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. - Jonathan Swift
Desires are the pulses of the soul; as physicians judge by the appetite, so may you by desires.
Your deep driving desires define your direction. - Debasish Mridha
There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensated appropriation of wealth produced by others; this is the political means. - Albert Jay Nock
I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires and inclinations, until they are proved to be right, is the most important of all, not only in things of natural philosophy, but in every department of daily life. - Michael Faraday
Like your tastebuds, desires and goals are ever-changing. What used to work, might not do it for you anymore. The question is: Do you have the guts to do something about it? - C. Nzingha Smith
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. - Susan B. Anthony
Accept the children the way we accept trees—with gratitude, because they are a blessing—but do not have expectations or desires. You don’t expect trees to change, you love them as they are. - Isabel Allende
The hands that are spaced are docks, where desires can dock. (Les mains écartées sont des quais, - les désirs peuvent accoster.) - Charles de Leusse
Our restlessness in this world seems to indicate that we are intended for a better. We have all of us a longing after happiness; and surely the Creator will gratify all the natural desires he has implanted in us. - Robert Southey
Some instances in life call for humility. But, sometimes you need to be flat-out brazen when it comes to the desires of your heart. - Nakia R. Laushaul
Desires occur because pratyakhyan [resolutions to not repeat the mistake] were not done. It comes in the memory because pratikraman [repentances] were not done. - Dada Bhagwan
Satisfaction doesn't come from needs and desires or fulfilling them, it comes from being yourself, being true. - Tony Samara
But you want a placid pond, a glassy surface to reflect your own casual desires and nothing more. You will never fathom the depths of my savage ocean. - Sherri Gaillard
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies. - Aristotle
Hope is the fuel that raises our standards. Losing it deletes our most basic desires. - Doug Pedersen
Beware! devil occupies your soul with forbidden desires - Muhammad Anwar Jalil
A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.
Let your desires be ruled by reason. (Appetitus Rationi Pareat) - Cicero
Curiosity is the fire of desires that burns the dust to reveal the diamond. - Debasish Mridha
The best kind of wealth is to give up inordinate desires.
God desires your increase in your leadership, stewardship, relationship, and business - Sunday Adelaja
Hopes and desires are the fundamental source if creation. - Debasish Mridha
Let him who desires peace prepare for war. - Flavius Vegetius Renatus
The only way we can divorce fears in our lives is by marrying our desires. - Auliq-Ice
When I saw you, I saw tears of love in your eyes. It tamed my fire of love and imprisoned me in a cage of desires. - Debasish Mridha
There's nothing more devastating in a marriage than when a spouse puts their work, their desires above their partner's heart. - Solange nicole
The word Ilaah means something that deserves to be worshiped AND obeyed at the same time. It is not enough to worship Allah through rituals. We have to give His obedience precedence over our desires in every situation of our life. - Nouman Ali Khan
I don’t know who you are or where you are, but I know your deep driving desires. I am writing to you to make your life a little easier and better. - Debasish Mridha
When is one considered to be in the awareness of ‘one’s own Self’? It is when all the desires become mild (when desires lessens). - Dada Bhagwan
Like a rose bud, my heart always desires to bloom and spread the fragrance of love, beauty, and kindness of mankind. - Debasish Mridha
God desires to free our country from darkness through our active civil position. - Sunday Adelaja
Idols aren't just stone statues. No, idols are the thoughts, desires, longings, and expectations that we worship in the place of the true God. Idols cause us to ignore the true God in search of what we think we need. - Elyse Fitzpatrick
Your persistent deep driving desires and your intentional actions will become your reality. - Debasish Mridha
Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing buy rational actions. - Ayn Rand
In America, I appear more simple that I am, because I was completely out of my element. It was my misfortune, not my fault, that I was born in a country which was not congenial to my desires. -1815, in a letter to her father William Patterson - Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte
The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire. - Slavoj Žižek
Free is a man who has no desires. - Nizami Ganjavi
The most powerful creative state to bring your desires into reality is by bring the conscious and subconscious into unison then keeping your heart and mind in perfect sync. - Steven Redhead
Delicacy in shaping desires of any kind will help to reach excellence, but failure will bring disaster. - William Gomes
One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life. - Alexander A. Bogomoletz
Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it. - Niccolo Machiavelli
Leadership is the bridge of integrity that connects goals, desires, and actions. - Steve Maraboli
Even in our own lives, we often struggle with a God who is real, who created us, who cares for us, and desires to know us. Yet from the start, God has made clear that you and I are made in his image, on purpose and for a purpose. - Dillon Burroughs
God desires to use you to the best of your capacity, to the best of your ability. - Sunday Adelaja
While a man desires a woman,His mind is boundAs closely as a calf to its mother.As you would pluck an autumn lily,Pluck the arrow of desire. - Dhammapada
Life is a piece of art drawn by love on the canvas of hope with the colors of desires, wants, and needs. - Debasish Mridha
Desires move us from one station to another in this life while we search for beauty, love, and happiness. - Debasish Mridha
Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way. - Will Durant
They surrounded me, bare me. Their fingers like tentacles and their desires like knives. Their fingers traced my secrets and their desires carved my skin. - Hubert Martin
Contentment is the foundation of true Happiness. The Happiness that comes from fulfilling desires can never be permanent. - RVM
Some Women are the fire... and the right one will keep throwing sticks, to maintain their burning desires... K.K - Konstantinos Kyriakou.K.K
God desires to use you to the best of your to the best of your potentials. - Sunday Adelaja
Life is a game, you live so you play. Follow your dreams and win what your happy heart desires. - Roel van Sleeuwen
It is the ultimate opportunity of a lifetime to try to understand the dreams and desires of a blooming flower. - Debasish Mridha
If you are a believer you are not supposed to begin to convince God to use you. God already desires to use you. - Sunday Adelaja
Writing fiction is a way of expressing feelings and revealing a certain truth about life, goals, dreams and desires. - Ann Marie Aguilar
Without harming anyone, how can I make this world more peaceful? How can I help others to fulfill their desires? How can I enhance and enrich the beauty and happiness for humanity? - Debasish Mridha
How can I use these [romantic] desires to love him, to serve him as a brother in Christ... - Chris Damian
Politics needs loyalty and patience yet it desires love, knowledge and dedication. - Oscar AULIQ-ICE Jr
We need to track back ISIS ideology to its origins, so as to pull it up by its roots. Then, and only then, we can establish a whole new understanding of the righteous religion rather than mere individuals’ interpretations that satisfy clerks desires and fantasies. - مُضر آل أحميّد
While we don't have much say over the desires that we have, we certainly can decide which we prefer-and then search for ways to act on that basis. - Daniel Akst
History is only ever invisible when it abets your sense of self, your desires, your ambitions, when it carries your life along in a kind of frictionless way. - Garth Greenwell
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