D Quotes
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“Desire itself is movement
Not in itself desirable;
Love is itself unmoving,
Only the cause and end of movement,
Timeless, and undesiring
Except in the aspect of time
Caught in the form of limitation
Between un-being and being.”
Source: Collected Poems 1909-1962
“Desire joy and thank God for it. Renounce it, if need be, for other's sake. That's joy beyond joy.”
“Desire leads a man to action – thus not her who robbed me of reason, who made me falter in my steps I regret.”
Source: Game of Big Numbers
“Desire leads to progress.”
“Desire leaves us heartbroken; it wears us out.”
“Desire lies at the heart of who God made us to be, who we are at our core. Desire is both our greatest frailty and the mark of our highest beauty. Our desire completes us as we become One with our Lover, and it separates us from Him and brings death as it wars against His will.”
Source: To Be Told: God Invites You to Coauthor Your Future
“Desire life.”
“Desire looks clear from the eyes of a lovely bride: power as strong as the founded world”
Source: Sophocles
“Desire makes everything blossom”
“Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.”
“Desire makes idiots of all of us. But you already knew that part, didn't you?”
Source: A Dowry of Blood
“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.”
Source: Shadowfever
“Desire may arise inside us, but it cannot bind us. Pleasure may seem alluring, but it cannot fetter us. Life's goal is much more than achieving desire or pleasure. We must choose not to be controlled by either!”
“Desire may be compared to a minute seed. It is like a big banyan tree growing out of a seed, which is no bigger than a dot.”
Source: The Gospel of the Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi
“Desire may cease once the desired person or object is acquired. The desire of reading doesn’t cease once a book is read, however extraordinary this one was.”
“Desire means never quit.”
“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.”
“Desire never ages”
“Desire never stops. Equilibrium is temporary. The self-revelation is never simple, and it cannot guarantee the hero a satisfying life from that day forward. since a great story is always a living thing, its ending is no more final and certain than any other part of the story.”
Source: The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
“Desire nothing except desirelessness.
Hope for nothing except to rise above all hopes.
Want nothing and you will have everything.”
“Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.”
“Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.”
“Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations
“Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.”
Source: The works of Shakespeare
“Desire of power, on earth a vicious weed, Yet, sprung from high, is of celestial seed: In God 'tisglory; and when men aspire, 'Tis but a spark too much of heavenly fire.”
“Desire of praise disposeth to laudable actions.”
Source: Leviathan
“Desire of The Wings Can Broke you Own Feet.”
“Desire of wrong things leads to wickedness.”
“Desire often creates paradoxical effects. The more you want something, the more you chase after it, the more it eludes you. The more interest you show, the more you repel the object of your desire. This is because your interest is too strong — it makes people awkward, even fearful. Uncontrollable desire makes you seem weak, unworthy, pathetic.”
Source: The 48 Laws Of Power
“Desire only God, and your heart will be satisfied.”
“Desire only leads to sorrow, and sorrow leads to emptiness.”
Source: Hang My Heart on the Shadows of Light: A Novel
“Desire or impassioned liking go with a demanding and ongoing quest, and therefore patience and indulgence are decisive to hitting the trail to empathizing people and finding out the right contexts in life. ( “Twilight of desire “ )”
“Desire outweighs footwork when it comes to crashing the glass”
“Desire overwhelmed me once she had gone. But it was not a desire for Homer. I had to return to the library. I could already smell the books' muskiness and in my mind turned over pages with as many differing textures as a forest; pages that were brittle and fragile which had to be coaxed to turn; pages that were soft and scented, presenting their words as if the were a gift in the palm of a hand, and pages that fell open heavily of their own accord as if weighted by the importance of their message. But more than anything else I was compelled by their mystery, by all the stories they had yet to tell me.
'I have to go to the library, Homer. I have to be with the books.”
“Desire peace, for that's the only way you can find the strength to move your mountain" interpret and rate”
“Desire peace, for that's the only way you can find the strength to move your mountains.”
“Desire persuades us that if only we have a pleasant breath or if only we have that spacious feeling we had earlier, then we would be happy. But desire is insatiable. As soon as we get the object or experience we have been longing for, we move on to another desire, because the more we pursue desire, the more desire we experience.”
Source: The Beginner's Guide to Insight Meditation
“Desire presses ever forward unsubdued.”
“Desire reins, reason's horse roams.”
“Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.”
Source: Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul
“Desire's not deviant. It's human nature.”
Source: Groupies
“desire's raison d'être is not to realize its goal, to find full satisfaction, but to reproduce itself as desire”
“Desire’s the only weapon that never runs out of ammunition.”
“Desire set the stage for everything.”
“Desire sets our compass, but real life steers our course.”
“Desire sharpens faster in borrowed skin.”
Source: WOLF SUIT: A Dark Supernatural Noir — Book 1
“Desire should be allowed to roam freely. The range is endless .”
“Desire something and don't just care what you have to go through to get it.”
“Desire suppressed finds its way into other more surreal settings, into dreams.”
“Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don’t coast through life without a passion.”