Quotes about Desire
Humanity's deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for our continuing quest.
- Stephen Hawking
Someone once said that scientists and prostitutes get paid for doing what they enjoy.
- Stephen Hawking
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 Berdyaev
A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.
- Catherine of Siena
What the heart loves, the will chooses, and the mind justifies.
- Thomas Cranmer
Let us love, since our heart is made for nothing else.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
Whatever you love most, that is your god.
- Martin Luther
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.
- Mother Teresa
In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
- St. Augustine
It is insanity to run from God and search for love.
- Erwin McManus
There is nothing better or morenecessary than love.
- John of the Cross