Quotes about Desire
Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.
- Mark Twain
A wish is an attitude of mind to which wings have been attached. You wish and you dream, and your whole nature focuses to bring your wishes and dreams to pass.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .
- Charles Dickens
The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.
- William Hazlitt
The flesh, or human nature, is generally lazy and self-centered.
- Joyce Meyer
Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
- Marquis de Sade
There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace.
- Teresa of Avila
The coming of Jesus at Bethlehem brought joy to the world and to every human heart. may His coming this Christmas bring to each one of us that peace and joy that He desires to give.
- Mother Teresa
The more objects you set your heart upon, the more thorns there are to tear your peace of mind to shreds.
- Charles Spurgeon
Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
- John Milton
Desperately seeking something is not what attracts it to us. When we dwell, in deep peace and kindness, whatever would add to our happiness just flows to our door.
- Marianne Williamson