D Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with D. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Desire dazzles, and the sun gives life.”
“Desire,
Delight,
Dare.”
“Desire demands only a constant attention to the unknown gravitational field which surrounds us and from which we can recharge ourselves every moment, as if breathing from the atmosphere of possibility itself. A life’s work is not a series of stepping-stones onto which we calmly place our feet, but more like an ocean crossing where there is no path, only a heading, a direction, which, of itself, is in conversation with the elements.”
“Desire denied breeds obsession.”
“Desire, Desire, Desire!
Desire to love,
Desire to live,
Desire to learn,
Desire to dream,
Desire to give,
Desire to forgive,
Desire to grow.”
“Desire, desire! I have too dearly bought,
With price of mangled mind, thy worthless ware.”
“Desire, desire which knows, we draw no advantage from our shadows except from some veritable sovereignties accompanied by invisible flames, invisible chains, which, coming to light, step after step, cause us to shine.”
Source: Selected poems
“Desire disappears as you become more and more aware. When awareness is one hundred percent, there is no desire at all.”
“Desire does not go out like a match, it extinguishes slowly as it burns into ash.”
Source: Lie With Me
“Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.”
Source: The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
“Desire, dream and seek.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Desire. Dream. Dare.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Desire dreaming.”
“Desire. Enthusiasm. Purpose. Pleasure. Delight. Peace. Power. However you define passion, it is at the heart of your motivation.”
Source: The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
“Desire followed the glance, pleasure followed desire”
“Desire for a person is not the same thing as having that unique appreciation and need for them, nor is affection. Desire waxes and wanes, and affection can be felt without long-standing commitment. But 'You matter to me' means that the long haul is accepted, even willingly taken on: I will carry you, hold you and applaud you, from here on in. Dependability: I will be here to take care of you. And when you are gone, I will be here to remember you.”
Source: Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading
“Desire for an idea is like bait. When you're fishing, you have to have patience. You bait your hook, and then you wait. The desire is the bait that pulls those fish in-those ideas.”
“Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger, or more intelligent than a fellow being or fellow scholar easily leads to an excessively egoistic psychological adjustment, which may become injurious for the individual and for the community.”
Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words
“Desire for beauty will endure and undermine the desire for truth.”
Source: The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—And Us
“Desire for books, desire to read.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Desire for gain and fear of loss burn like fire.”
Source: The Hero: Myth, Image, Symbol
“Desire for God without doctrine is blind; doctrine without desire is empty.”
Source: Faith Speaking Understanding: Performing the Drama of Doctrine
“Desire for goodness, Mister Reese, leads to earnestness. Earnestness in turn leads to sanctimonious self-righteousness, which breeds intolerance, upon which harsh judgment quickly follows, yielding dire punishment, inflicting general terror and paranoia, eventually culminating in revolt, leading to chaos, then dissolution, and thus, the end of civilisation.”
He slowly turned, looked down upon Emancipor.
“And we are creatures dependent upon civilisation. It is the only environment in which we can thrive.”
Emancipor frowned.
“The desire for goodness leads to the end of civilisation?”
“Precisely, Mister Reese.”
“But if the principal aim is to achieve good living and health among the populace, what is the harm in that?”
Bauchelain sighed.
“Very well, I shall try again. Good living and health, as you say, yielding well-being. But well-being is a contextual notion, a relative notion. Perceived benefits are measured by way of contrast. In any case, the result is smugness, and from that an overwhelming desire to deliver conformity among those perceived as less pure, less fortunate—the unenlightened, if you will. But conformity leads to ennui, and then indifference. From indifference, Mister Reese, dissolution follows as a natural course, and with it, once again, the end of civilisation.”
Source: Bauchelain and Korbal Broach
“Desire for increased wealth is not evil... it is simply the desire for more abundant life; it is aspiration.”
Source: Think Yourself Wealthy
“Desire for purity is the delight in praying.”
“Desire for success must be bigger than the fear of failure.”
“Desire For Thee"
My desire to love thee
is just like a tree,
must have one root
but several branches of fruit
I want to make you feel
as if you are horizon i steal
you are as free as wind
where my love flows in swing
i see thee in glaze shadow around
a graceful presence on passion ground
that is "THEE" you spark everywhere
Everywhere am far and near.”
“Desire God, and you will have desires from God.”
Source: Greater Works: Experiencing God’s Power
“Desire great things in life.
Expect great things in life.”
“Desire grows by what it feeds on.”
Source: ANNE SHIRLEY Complete Series - ALL 14 Books in One Volume: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more: Including the Memoirs & Letters of Lucy Maud Montgomery
“Desire had been a madness in her, grounded by a love that had filled her like a breath - as if it had always been meant, written on her soul when it was just a seed.”
Source: A Day of Fallen Night
“Desire had never done anything good in her life, so she had divorced it years ago.”
Source: Finding Heaven
“Desire happiness as well as holiness.”
“Desire happiness, aspire to gratitude, long for health, crave compassion, seek satisfaction, lust after God, however & whatever you perceive God to be, want to love yourself, others & everything around you more and more each day”
“Desire has a wicked habit of not knowing its place, and trying to go beyond that.”
Source: No One Writes Back
“Desire has no history.”
Source: On photography
“Desire,” he replied firmly. “Their abundance, that ‘everything right now’ which they got without any effort, had killed their sense of longing. All that luxury had made them numb. They had no idea what it meant to dream of something unattainable, to feel that hunger for achieving something that seemed so far away. They never had to fight for anything, and that made them weak—unable to adapt or respond.”
Source: The Strength of Fragile Days: A Long Journey Across the Middle Lands
“Desire
I desire you
more than food
and drink
My body
my senses
my mind
hunger for your taste
I can sense your presence
in my heart
although you belong
to all the world
I wait
with silent passion
for one gesture
one glance
from you”
Source: The Love Poems of Rumi
“Desire, I was only beginning to understand that day at the ruins, comes in many forms, and some of them are violent. We learn this in the stories we are told about love. Struck by an angel's arrow or drugged by a love flower, desire wounds, and I had felt its blue sting. The thought of him all day, like pushing on a bruise.”
Source: Thirst for Salt
“Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.”
“Desire inspires us to be our very best.”
Source: Mrs. Poe
“desire is a beast that must be fed!”
Source: Sleeping with Strangers
“Desire is a bonfire that burns with greater fury, asking for more fuel.”
“Desire is a bottomless pit.”
“Desire is a diligent duty.”
“Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.”
Source: The Kempton-Wase Letters
“Desire is a quest for the beautiful - whatever ''the beautiful'' might mean. Desire is the thing that makes us feel great about the world and therefore be great in it. It is the life force that spurs us on to do, to be, to think.”
Source: Venus and Aphrodite: A Biography of Desire
“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.”
Source: Open to Desire: The Truth About What the Buddha Taught
“Desire is a word I'm tired of. I've been living with that word for years. Yes, of course, we're all desiring machines. I have sometimes wondered what people would want, if there were no advertising. And death, what other subject is there? It's the subject. It's our subject. It's the great human dilemma, that we die and know we will.”
“Desire is about the future and guilt is about the past. Actually both are same.”