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Desire awakens only to things that are thought possible. By Rene Descartes Desire Awakens Things Thought

Desire is the moment before the race is run. By Jane Hirshfield Desire Run Moment Race

Desire is the kind of thing thateats youandleaves you starving. By Nayyirah Waheed Desire Starving Kind Thing Thateats

Desire is a bonfire that burns with greater fury, asking for more fuel ... By Sathya Sai Baba Desire Fury Fuel Bonfire Burns

In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire. By Mignon Mclaughlin Desire Years Youth Plagued Feel

There are some desires that are not desirable. By Gilbert K. Chesterton Desirable Desires

I don't have a lot of desires, you see; I feel so lucky. God has give me a lot of things already; there's nothing to ask for. By Shreya Ghoshal Lot Desires Lucky Feel God

You should have desires, but the desires should not have you. By Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Desires

Power seeking to manifest causes desire within you. By Wallace D. Wattles Power Seeking Manifest Desire

Desire is what lends power to thought, it is that element that separates a wish or a day dream into reality, if properly directed. By Stephen Richards Desire Thought Reality Directed Lends

Within every desire is the mechanics of its fulfillment. By Deepak Chopra Fulfillment Desire Mechanics

The Object of His Desire series By Bill Driscoll Object Desire Series

DESIRE - knowing what you want. By Napoleon Hill Desire Knowing

Desire lies dormant in our hearts; slowly it keeps getting stronger and ignites the will to succeed. By Balroop Singh Desire Hearts Slowly Succeed Lies

The desires you aspire to need strong chains of intent. By Steven Redhead Intent Desires Aspire Strong Chains

Desire is a powerful boat herding anchors and chains in the middle of the night. By Rosabetty Munoz Desire Night Powerful Boat Herding

The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul ... By Solomon Soul Desire Accomplished Sweet

Mad desire, when it has the most, longs for more By Ovid Mad Desire Longs

Desire is an attempt to feel the void. By Hamza Yusuf Desire Void Attempt Feel

Boredom: the desire for desires. By Leo Tolstoy Boredom Desire Desires

Desire creates a starting point. Without it, no magic can be put into action. By Lawren Leo Desire Point Creates Starting Action

Where our desires "come from"; that is a dark, winding road. By John Irving Desires Dark Winding Road

It is easy for desire to be caught like a bird in a net, its wings fouled and twisted, no longer free to cross back and forth between silence and word. Desire may also find itself so amputated by tradition and community that it wanders in a void with nothing to orient it, to shape or discipline it. Desire must find ways to navigate its bitter and sweet paradox: it moves toward but also always through and beyond every object. By Wendy Farley Desire Net Twisted Word Easy

Desire is the ingredient that changes the hot water of mediocrity to the steam of outstanding success. By Zig Ziglar Desire Success Ingredient Hot Water

Our desires are like an ocean; vast, and without end. By Matshona Dhliwayo Vast Ocean End Desires

Desire is the outcome of sensation - the outcome with all the images that thought has built. And this desire not only breeds discontent but a sense of hopelessness. Never suppress it, never discipline it but probe into the nature of it - what is the origin, the purpose, the intricacies of it? To delve deep into it is not another desire, for it has no motive; it is like understanding the beauty of a flower, to sit down beside it and look at it. By Jiddu Krishnamurti Outcome Desire Sensation Built Images

The earthly desires men cherish are shadows. There is no true happiness in fulfilling them. Why, then, do we continue to pursue joys without substance? Because the pursuit itself has become our only substitute for joy. Unable to rest in anything we achieve, we determine to forget our discontent in a ceaseless quest for new satisfactions. In this pursuit, desire itself becomes our chief satisfaction. By Thomas Merton Shadows Earthly Men Cherish Pursuit

Desire is a teacher: When we immerse ourselves in it without guilt, shame, or clinging, it can show us something special about our own minds that allows us to embrace life fully. By Mark Epstein Shame Desire Teacher Guilt Clinging

Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living. By John Eldredge Desire Shouts Living Whispers Map

Urges. Mercy, the urges. By Kelly Moran Urges Mercy

To will a new form is unacceptable, because will builds distortion. Desire, too, is incomplete and arbitrary. These strategies, however intimate they might become, must especially be removed to clear the way for something else ... By Philip Guston Unacceptable Distortion Desire Form Builds

Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing. By Mignon Mclaughlin Desire People Missing Creates Havoc

Desires to which we cling closely can easily prevent us from being what we ought to be and can be; and on the other hand, desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer.Lack of desire is poverty. By Dietrich Bonhoeffer Hand Poverty Desires Cling Closely

Desire should be allowed to roam freely. The range is endless . By Sameh Elsayed Desire Freely Allowed Roam Endless

Desire has no particular object. It is a vector. Its object is before it, always to come. Desire vectorizes being toward the emergence of the new. Desire is one with the auto-conducting movement of becoming. By Richard Grusin Desire Object Vector Vectorizes Emergence

Restriction generates yearning. You want what you cannot have. By Portia De Rossi Restriction Yearning Generates

desire is the sugar in human food. By David Foster Wallace Desire Food Sugar Human

Wanting creates the space in which our highest aspirations come into being. By David Schnarch Wanting Creates Space Highest Aspirations

Yearning wants mostly to perpetuate itself. By Mason Cooley Yearning Perpetuate

The purpose of desire. It is for creation and destruction. It is the beginning and the end of a journey. Without desire, there is nothing. By Amish Tripathi Desire Purpose Destruction Journey Creation

Never a possession, always the possessor, with skin as pale as smoke, and eyes tawny and sharp as yellow wine: Desire is everything you've ever wanted. Whoever you are. Whatever you are. Everything. By Neil Gaiman Desire Possession Possessor Smoke Wine

Desire leaves us heartbroken; it wears us out. By Ellen Pompeo Desire Heartbroken Leaves Wears

Our desires are the way that the healing life force comes through us and replenishes our bodies. By Christiane Northrup Bodies Desires Healing Life Force

All desire springs from a lack, which it strives continually to fill. By Terry Eagleton Lack Fill Desire Springs Strives

Every time you have a desire, in a certain sense you have a goal, something you would like to be, do, or have. Some desires are merely passing fancies, but others stay with us and go deeper. Our desires and our goals give us direction and focus. They help point us down our path of action in our life. By Shakti Gawain Time Sense Desires Fancies Deeper

All our desires are desires of the soul, ultimately, Though they look like desires mental or sensory;- 39 - By Munindra Misra Ultimately Desires Soul Sensory Mental

Desires occur because pratyakhyan [resolutions to not repeat the mistake] were not done. It comes in the memory because pratikraman [repentances] were not done. By Dada Bhagwan Desires Pratyakhyan Resolutions Mistake Occur

The worst passion we mortals cherish is the desire to possess. Even when we know that our final destination is a hole not more than three feet square, we have the strongest craving By D.t. Suzuki Possess Worst Passion Mortals Cherish

Desire Is Born With Vision By Zig Ziglar Vision Born Desire

Desire is created when something happens in your life that suddenly changes the way you see yourself in relationship to your future. By Zig Ziglar Desire Future Created Life Suddenly

Desire inspires us to be our very best. By Lynn Cullen Desire Inspires

Desire is a beast that must be fed! By Eric Jerome Dickey Desire Fed Beast

Desire is craving enough to sacrifice for By Myles Munroe Desire Craving Sacrifice

Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire ... Life is wanting. By Kim Stanley Robinson Life Desire Continue Wanting Living

When the desire is too much to bear, we often bury it beneath frenzied thoughts and activities or escape it by dulling our immediate consciousness of living. It is possible to run away from the desire for years, even decades, at a time, but we cannot eradicate it entirely. It keeps touching us in little glimpses and hints in our dreams, our hopes, our unguarded moments. By Gerald May Desire Bear Living Bury Beneath

Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing. By Thomas Hobbes Ambition Covetousnesse Passions Incumbent Pressing

Desire is the absurdity that holds open the infinity of possibility. By Wendy Farley Desire Possibility Absurdity Holds Open

Desire turns us into ghosts By Octavio Paz Desire Ghosts Turns

From whence cometh the pounding of desire if not from the depths of loneliness? By Martin Cosgrove Loneliness Cometh Pounding Desire Depths

Desire is inspired by motivation, which gives us hope to believe in ourselves that we can set goals and pursue them successfully. By Ellen J. Barrier Desire Motivation Successfully Inspired Hope

What hidden, hoarded longings there are in all of us. By John Steinbeck Hidden Hoarded Longings

Desires that are just are termed Truth. Without desires, Truth cannot be understood. By Hong Zicheng Truth Desires Termed Understood

The remedy against want is to moderate your desires. By Saadi Desires Remedy Moderate

I have only the desire. Yet ultimately a desire is nothing but a crazy need. As By Jhumpa Lahiri Desire Ultimately Crazy

Desire is the root cause of all suffering, all destruction, By Amish Tripathi Desire Suffering Destruction Root

Desire is the engine of creation. By Danielle Laporte Desire Creation Engine

Reason is no match for desire: when desire is purely and powerfully felt, it becomes a kind of reason of its own. By Eleanor Catton Felt Reason Desire Match Purely

Desire is one of the main drivers in creating your reality; utilise desire by focusing it upon the things you want to achieve in life. By Steven Redhead Reality Utilise Life Desire Main

The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight. By Algernon Charles Swinburne Delight Desire Consumes Outruns

In a world of tangled want, individual longings are often co-opted by more powerful interests. Satisfied desire in one sphere means loss in another. By Anonymous Individual Interests World Tangled Longings

The desire that I may have no desirebis itself a desire. By R.n. Prasher Desire Desirebis

There is something I have noticed about desire, that it opens the eyes and strikes them blind at the same time. By Jane Smiley Desire Time Noticed Opens Eyes

The desire that I may have no desire is itself a desire. By R.n. Prasher Desire

Paroxysms of pain and twinges of desire leach from universal sources. All human suffering buttons itself to the pang of wanting. By Kilroy J. Oldster Paroxysms Sources Pain Twinges Desire

42. The word "desire" means "of the sire" or "of the father." In other words, that strong impulse to achieve something is actually the "something" already in you, seeking to come out! By Derek Rydall Desire Word Words Sire Father

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal. By Victor Hugo Desires Examined Reveal Shameful

My desire turns to something heady and more sinister. Fear. By Marata Eros Fear Sinister Desire Turns Heady

Desire gives pain to the heart from which springs both hope and worry. Out of suspicion I make mistakes that grow into lasting ills. And from my stubborn delusions come a thousand deceits, which later I accept as damage I've done. By Laurel Corona Desire Worry Pain Heart Springs

Desire is the outcome of sensation - the outcome with all the images that thought has built. And this desire not only breeds discontent but a sense of hopelessness. br />Never suppress it, never discipline it but probe into the nature of it - what is the origin, the purpose, the intricacies of it? To delve deep into it is not another desire, for it has no motive; it is like understanding the beauty of a flower, to sit down beside it and look at it. By Jiddu Krishnamurti Outcome Desire Sensation Built Images

Desire means the way to go out; desire is the path that leads you out. If your mind is still desiring, you cannot move within. By Rajneesh Desire Path Leads Desiring Mind

Desire is the intangible quality that has more impact on success than talent, education, or IQ. You can't see desire, but you can feel its presence, and see its results in the lives of successful people. By Robert Fulghum Education Talent Desire Intangible Quality

Needs can be fulfilled, desires never. Needs are natural, desires are perverted. By Rajneesh Desires Fulfilled Natural Perverted

Wants are never satiated. In fulfilling one desire, we neglect another. By Matt Tomerlin Satiated Desire Fulfilling Neglect

People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable. By Oliver Goldsmith People Desires Insatiable Seek Short

To understand desire, one needs language and flesh. By Sherry Turkle Desire Flesh Understand Language

Desire makes life happen. Makes it matter. Makes everything worth it. Desire is life. Hunger to see the next sunrise or sunset, to touch the one you love, to try again. "Hell would be waking up and wanting nothing," he agrees. By Karen Marie Moning Happen Makes Desire Life Hell

Impossible desires are the height of unreason. By Thomas Chandler Haliburton Impossible Unreason Desires Height

In the calm violence of your being, desire. By Carole Maso Desire Calm Violence

The vague torment of ... ambition. By Emile Zola Ambition Vague Torment

Desire activates the potential that was coined within you. You cannot unleash your potential without stepping up your desire to succeed... By Assegid Habtewold Desire Potential Activates Coined Succeed

You need to find your OWN purpose. I cannot BUILD desire. By Jillian Michaels Purpose Find Build Desire

But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes. By Thomas Hardy Mere Fancies Wishes Insidious Evolution

One must desire something to be alive By Margaret Deland Alive Desire

Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations. By Albert Einstein Feeling Creations Human Longing Motive

desires," I mean things we feel that we need or want very strongly. There's an element of passion in the experience of desire By Calvin D. Banyan Strongly Things Feel Desires Desire

For once desire is articulated in words it does not sit still, but displaces, drifting metonymically from one thing to the next. Desire is a product of language and cannot be satisfied with an object. By Bruce Fink Displaces Drifting Desire Articulated Words

Desire, when it stems from the heart and spirit, when it is pure and intense, possesses awesome electromagnetic energy. This energy is released into the ether each night, as the mind falls into the sleep state. Each morning it returns to the conscious state reinforced with the cosmic currents. That which has been imaged will surely and certainly be manifested. You can rely, young man, upon this ageless promise as surely as you can rely upon the eternally unbroken promise of sunrise ... and of Spring. By Abdul Kalam Desire Energy Spirit Intense Possesses

Ordinarily all desires exist in the second state of consciousness, the dreaming state. Desire is a dream and to work for a dream is doomed from the very beginning, because a dream can never become real. Even if sometimes you feel it has become almost real, it never becomes real - a dream by nature is empty. It has no substance in it. By Rajneesh Real Dream State Ordinarily Consciousness

Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight? By Edward Abbey Buddha Desire Suffering Delight

Desire is the catalyst that enables a person with average ability to compete and win against others with more natural talent. By Zig Ziglar Desire Talent Catalyst Enables Person