Quotes about Desire

So often multitudes of people gather around some broken cistern of this world, trying to satisfy their thirst for they know not what. They grumble about their troubles and complain about their lot, but how few of them run to the One who said, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water" (John 7:37—38).

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want.

I always wanted to be a pilot.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

When I was five I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

Maybe we can't have everything we want in this relationship, Susanna." He bent his lips to her ears and whispered, "But we have this ball and tonight, you are my queen.

I think God made us to desire beauty. But I'm learning we have to first find our beauty in God.

I had this wild idea I wanted my first kiss to be with my own ... ' She hesitated to speak the word that had been rattling around in her heart for years - prince .

Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.

Be careful what you set your heart on, for it will surely be yours.