D Quotes
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“Desire is action. In the inner world, your desires bring about their own fulfillment, effortlessly. That inner world, and the exterior one, intersect and interweave. They only appear separate. In the physical world, time may have to elapse, or whatever. Conditions may have to change, or whatever, but the desire will bring about the proper results. The feeling of effortlessness is what is important.”
“Desire is always followed by boredom. And only love can defeat boredom. Love with a capital L; we all dream of it.”
“Desire is an appetite, quickly sated. Longing is a wound, an opening in the heart or the spirit. Whatever the cause, whatever the duration, it almost always leaves a scar.”
Source: The Valley of Unknowing
“Desire is an art.”
Source: Talismanist: Fragments of the Ancient Fire. Philosophy of Fragmentism Series.
“Desire is an attempt to feel the void.”
“Desire is an odd thing. As soon as it's sated, it transmutes. If we receive golden thread, we desire the golden needle.”
Source: The Cruel Prince
“Desire is both imitative (we like what others like) and competitive (we want to take away from others what they have). As children, we wanted to monopolize the attention of a parent, to draw it away from other siblings. This sense of rivalry... makes people compete for the attention.”
Source: The Art Of Seduction
“Desire is boundless, and boundlessness frightens us.”
“Desire is craving enough to sacrifice for”
Source: Understanding Your Potential Expanded Edition
“Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.”
Source: The Professor's House
“Desire is easy. Surrender is dangerous. Love is something else entirely.”
Source: The Darkness Between Us
“Desire is easy to fight. Especially when the only weapon desire possess is attraction. It's not so easy when you're trying to win a war against the heart.”
Source: Maybe Someday
“Desire is easy to fight. Especially when the only weapon desire possesses is attraction. It's not so easy when you're trying to win a war against the heart.”
Source: Maybe Someday
“Desire is endless and unappeasable, is most intense where most forbidden, and is never far from despair.”
“Desire is everything, not talent. It's the degree of one's desire that will dictate the extent of one's success, in any endeavour.”
“DESIRE is food for the soul. It has tonality and inflections, it ebbs and flows, it has soft and hard places, it has pleasure and pain, joys and sorrows. It makes life an experience rather than a chore.”
“Desire is God tapping at the door of your mind, trying to give you greater good.”
“Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.”
“Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.”
“Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.”
“Desire is in men a hunger, in women only an appetite.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“Desire is individual. Happiness is common.”
“Desire is insatiable as death, but He who fills all in all can fill it. The capacity of our wishes who can measure? But the immeasurable wealth of God can more than overflow it.”
Source: Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
“Desire is insatiable not because the goods of the world are too few, too uniform, or too bland. Desire burns through the goods of the world, even though these goods are not false or intrinsically unsatisfactory.... Desire shatters the economy of things; it disputes the tyranny of objects. IT longs for the great emptiness, which is beauty and love without limitation.”
Source: The Wounding and Healing of Desire: Weaving Heaven and Earth
“Desire is inspired by motivation, which gives us hope to believe in ourselves that we can set goals and pursue them successfully.”
“Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire, bacteria feel desire. Life is wanting.”
Source: The Years of Rice and Salt
“Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire... Life is wanting.”
“Desire is like fog on a bathroom mirror -- its presence incites you to wipe the mirror, and see yourself clearly again.”
“Desire is like the shadow caused by the morning sun; it gets longer when you run to catch it.”
“Desire is making people build ships and cities, has made men conquer nations... and it can defeat that nicotine”
“Desire is nature's purest gift.”
Source: Desdemona
“Desire is never destructive. But evil desire can cause a destruction.”
“Desire is never final, desire is imprecise and impractical [...]”
“Desire is no light thing.”
Source: Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
“Desire is not always lessened by disgust. Nor can it be bestowed, like a favor, to those most deserving of it. And as my words bind my magic, so you can know the truth. If she doesn’t desire his kiss, she won’t be free.”
Source: City of Ashes
“Desire is not enough, we must do the work.”
“Desire is not enough, you must determine to work diligently fulfil the dream.”
“Desire is not simple. In Greek the act of love is a mingling and desire melts the limbs. Boundaries of body, category of thought, are confounded.”
Source: Eros the Bittersweet
“Desire is not what causes suffering.
It is the attachment to desire that steals our joy. Desire what your heart desires, and then get out of your own way. Detach from your desire and continue to do what makes you happy. When it resurfaces in your thoughts, feel the joy of already having it, and also the peace of knowing that what is meant for you
will never pass you bye.”
“Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.”
“Desire is one of the burning experiences of human life.”
“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.”
Source: Unleash The Power of Your Heart and Mind
“Desire is opportunity. It creates leverage. It was a basic rule of tradecraft.... A man without desire was invisible...
There are no truly invisible men, Klay reminded himself. Every person wants something.”
Source: In the Company of Killers
“Desire is our imprisonment. The man who wants nothing, who is absolutely contented as he is, is free of all bondage. He has attained to ultimate freedom, nirvana - and that is the goal of life. And it is only by attaining that freedom that you will know the significance of being, the song of being, the celebration of being. Your life will become a continuous bliss, and not only that YOU will be blissful, you will be able to bless others too. The whole existence will be blessed by you, by your very presence.”
“Desire is perpetual transformation.”
Source: The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction
“Desire is poison at lunch and wormwood at dinner; your bed is a stone, friendship is hateful and your fancy is always fixed on one thing.”
Source: The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters. The sonnets. Appendix
“Desire is possibility seeking expression.”
“Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.”
“Desire is prayer.
Prayer is desire.”
“Desire is proof of the availability.”