Quotes about Desire
Happiness is not in getting what you want, but in learning to want what you get. Don't waste your time crying over what you're not given. When you have tears in your eyes, you can't see all the beautiful things around you.
- Lisa Wingate
The man who buys what he does not need will often need what he cannot buy.'
- Lisa Wingate
To love and be loved is the very thing our souls scream for from birth and every moment after, the urge to need and be needed as natural as breathing, as life-giving as breath.
- Lisa Wingate
The secret to a good life isn't in getting what you want; it's in learning to want what you get. I'm learning to want what I've got and not to think about the rest so much.
- Lisa Wingate
The sweetness of his longing dives to a tender, bruised place in me.
- Lisa Wingate
Now we haven't got anything, and when you haven't got a single book, the idea of putting your hands on one is like Christmas and a birthday rolled up together.
- Lisa Wingate
Did the dead still want things? Or was death simply a letting go of all that is held so tightly in life—an understanding of the temporal and shallow nature of the human matters of possession, greed, desire, justice?
- Lisa Wingate
There you are. A simple commandment. Not ten of them, just one: 'Thou shalt not eat.' (Personally, I wish the very first edict from God hadn't involved dieting, don't you?)
- Liz Curtis Higgs
Without desire how is it possible to make a story?
- JM Coetzee
God can change our circumstances, but sometimes He waits for us to show real desire for change as well as our faith in Him.
- Anne Graham Lotz
Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
- Vince Lombardi
I will not live without love.
- Vincent Van Gogh