Quotes about Desire

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

I thought my dream job was to play cricket.

If we are hungry enough for God, we will find a way into His presence. We should be so hungry for the presence of God that we absolutely will not go out of our house or tackle any kind of project until we have spent some time with Him.

I'd like to be taller. I'd like my baby fat to leave.

It is not the ability to walk that pleases God, it is the desire to walk. The desire to do the right thing. The truest measure of a man is what he desires. The measure of that desire is seen in the actions that follow.

To truly live is more than taking the next breath---it's to hope and dream and love.

All women like chocolate, it's like female catnip.

Romance novels are all about desire and happily-ever-after, but happily-ever-after doesn't come from desire—at least not the kind portrayed in pulp romances. Real love is not to desire a person but to desire their happiness—sometimes even at the expense of our own happiness. Real love is to expand our own capacity for tolerance and caring, to actively seek another's well-being. All else is simply a charade of self-interest.

To love someone is to desire their happiness. [Richelle Bach]

often what we want most in life is just the chance to do what we should have done to begin with.

The measure of love isn't how much you want someone. It's revealed in what you want for them.

Nichelle staring at Jack.