Desire Quotes - page 23

Venereal: From Venus, the goddess of love, this word refers to the reality of desire. With the rise of Protestantism and science, the word "disease" was tacked on in a revealing combination of categorization and moralizing. "Which disease?" (John Ralston Saul)
Antony, however, according to his custom, returned alone to his own cell, increased his discipline, and sighed daily as he thought of the mansions in Heaven, having his desire fixed on them, and pondering over the shortness of man's life. And he used to eat and sleep, and go about all other bodily necessities with shame when he thought of the spiritual faculties of the soul. So often, when about to eat with any other hermits, recollecting the spiritual food, he begged to be excused, and departed far off from them, deeming it a matter for shame if he should be seen eating by others. View quote
Athanasius of Alexandria
For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin. For I do not understand what I am doing. For I do not practice what I wish, but I do what I hate. However, if I do what I do not wish, I agree that the Law is fine. But now I am no longer the one doing it, but it is the sin that resides in me. For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, there dwells nothing good; for I have the desire to do what is fine but not the ability to carry it out. For I do not do the good that I wish, but the bad that I do not wish is what I practice. If, then, I do what I do not wish, I am no longer the one carrying it out, but it is the sin dwelling in me. View quote
Paul
The love of gain, which is a large, incalculably large, element in every soul, when once applied to the desire for God, will bless the man who has it. View quote
Gregory of Nyssa
For the desire of money is the root of all evils; which some coveting have erred from the faith, and have entangled themselves in many sorrows. View quote
Paul
Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries. View quote
A. B. Yehoshua
When I am emperor, I will abolish private education. Private schools, private college. All of these parents with money and energy and the drive for bake sales and a desire to leave their vast fortunes to education - everybody would have to be eating out of the same educational pot. View quote
Ann Patchett
There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration. View quote
Anna Katharine Green
The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one's negative experience is itself a positive experience. View quote
Mark Manson
No. The answer was no, I was not all right. I nearly got knocked out. Knocked out by desire! Desire for forbidden dissimilar molecules. View quote
Meg Cabot
If she could find a man who could feel and laugh as well as desire, she might even think about thinking about marriage. (Melanie Rawn)
The Internet has fashioned a new and complicated environment for an age-old dilemma that pits the demands of security against the desire for freedom. View quote
Misha Glenny
I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly. View quote
Nellie Bly
My brother was born without taste or the desire to be professionally lit. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire. View quote
Orison Swett Marden
It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind. View quote
Orison Swett Marden
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon... must inevitably come to pass! View quote
Paul J. Meyer
I think a lot of developments start with the desire of the developer to get what he really wants so that he can use it. It's not just the technical fascination or the business opportunity. View quote
Ray Dolby
You've got to have this burning desire in your chest to succeed. View quote
Rod Stewart
An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things. View quote
Salvatore Quasimodo
But it's always intriguing to discover the ways in which desire fuels the systems of the world. (Samuel R. Delany)
In a sense, modern philosophy is a series of introductions to introductions to introductions, the movement between them controlled by the pro-tective/pro-textive play of forces about desire. View quote
Samuel R. Delany
But whatever you say of them, finally I had to dismiss such notions as the ratiocinations desire can entangle about the most sensible of us. View quote
Samuel R. Delany
I still feel that style is important for reading pleasure, and sex is important for pleasure in life. Each appeases a different type of desire. And while I find nothing shameful in taking direct erotic pleasure from reading or writing, I don't think they entail a necessary relation. The processes you have me describing are contingent psychological processes. Neither marks one end nor the other of any necessary or even philosophical relationship... View quote
Samuel R. Delany
He would find a way to make it work, because he finally understood that sometimes you have to raise your expectations. And sometimes you need to make a claim on the world and the people you love to get what you most desire. View quote
Cinda Williams Chima