Quotes about Desire
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein
Dreams are necessary to life.
- Anais Nin
If there is sin against life, it consists¦ in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
- Albert Camus
The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
- Albert Einstein
You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
- Abraham Lincoln
Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God. No one sins out of duty. We sin because it holds some promise of happiness. That promise enslaves us until we believe that God is more desired than life itself.
- John Piper
Either you're going to be depressed when your wish is not realized or foolishly pleased with yourself if it is, overjoyed for the wrong reasons.
- Marcus Aurelius
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
- St. Jerome
He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart
- CS Lewis
We know that the body needs bread, therefore we seek for bread for it: so must we seek for the food of the soul.
- Lancelot Andrewes
He is rich enough who does not want bread.
- St. Jerome
I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food.
- Albert Einstein