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Quotes about Desire

The mere presence of PASSION within you is all you need to fulfill your DREAMS.
- Wayne Dyer
Her passions were narrow but deep.
- Toni Morrison
If you hold on to what you want so tightly, it almost becomes an idol.
- Joel Osteen
The most important thing about education is appetite.
- Winston Churchill
I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
- Oswald Chambers
I think the things we want most in life, the things we think will set us free, are not the thing we need.
- Donald Miller
As a human, I am flawed in that it is difficult for me to consider others before myself. It feels like I have to fight against this force, this current within me that, more often than not, wants to avoid serious issues and please myself, buy things for myself, feed myself, entertain myself, and all of that.
- Donald Miller
I have a pastor friend who says the root of sin is the desire for control. I think there's some truth to that. And I'd add the root of control is fear.
- Donald Miller
Here is nearly every story you see or hear in a nutshell: A CHARACTER who wants something encounters a PROBLEM before they can get it. At the peak of their despair, a GUIDE steps into their lives, gives them a PLAN, and CALLS THEM TO ACTION. That action helps them avoid FAILURE and ends in a SUCCESS.
- Donald Miller
A story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.
- Donald Miller
1.?What does the hero want? 2.?Who or what is opposing the hero getting what she wants? 3.?What will the hero's life look like if she does (or does not) get what she wants?
- Donald Miller
What was most important would have been love, the severe desire for the child, not to succeed, but to fearlessly engage in a world in which love is so fearfully exchanged.
- Donald Miller