Quotes about Desire
I have only one desire, and that is the desire for solitude-to disappear into God, to be submerged in His peace, to be lost in the secret of His Face.
- Thomas Merton
If you Desire Peace for Others, you'll Receive it.
- Wayne Dyer
I do not want the peace which pass-eth understanding I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
- Helen Keller
There is more good in contentment, than there is in the thing that you would fain have to cure your discontent.
- Jeremiah Burroughs
To be God's people, to love Him fervently with whole hearts, is our sole desire.
- Elizabeth George
We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.
- CS Lewis
Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.
- Peter Kreeft
It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied.
- CS Lewis
Think not so much of what you lack as of what you have: but of the things that you have, select the best, and then reflect on how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.
- Marcus Aurelius
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
- H Jackson Brown, Jr.
But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts to: growing out of yearning, of passion, of all intensities of the soul?
- JM Coetzee
If your desire is for good, the people will be good.
- Confucius