D Quotes
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“Desire the desirable.”
“Desire: the root cause of all suffering”
“Desire the things that will motivate you to achieve your goals for the sake of a greater vision.”
“Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.”
“Desire to always be on the right way no matter how tough it gets. A very slow movement on the right way is better than overwhelming speed on the wrong path!”
Source: Daily Drive 365
“Desire to dream.”
“Desire to dwell in a clean environment.”
“Desire to dwell in clean environment.”
“Desire to give and not always receive.”
“Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly.”
Source: The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide
“Desire to impact lives! Change destinies and make dreams come true.”
“Desire to know God.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Desire to know the Word of God should lead to a delight to do his will.”
“Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace.”
“Desire to seek, desire to learn.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Desire to wait for God to work on you.”
“Desire toward God and you will have desires from God and He will meet you on the line of those desires when you reach out in simple faith.”
Source: Ever Increasing Faith
“DESIRE: Trust me, if you reject love long enough you’ll forget how to accept it.”
Source: Lost and Found: a stage play
“Desire urges me on, as fear bridles me.' Doesn't that explain everything that happens in the world?”
Source: A Discovery of Witches Vol. 1 of 2
“Desire urges me on as fear bridles me" Bruno.”
Source: All Souls Trilogy
“Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.”
“Desire was never focused on one point, it broadened out, it was large and nebulous and hard to handle.”
“Desire was the one thing they were never trained to control.”
Source: Between Masks
“desire was warm recently
shot from inside a body
into a body, strange
little birth, happy death
ritual, sweet lord
i've seen thy wrath
& it taste like sugar
lay thy merciful hand
around my neck”
Source: Don't Call Us Dead
“Desire: When all you can think about is what they could do for you.
Love: When all you can think about is what you can do for them.”
“Desire will in due time externalize itself as concrete fact.”
Source: The Wisdom of Thomas Troward
“Desire wills its perpetuation ad infinitum.”
Source: The Volcano Lover
“Desire without action will collapse all hope built inside.”
Source: The One-Hundred: Part 2 - The Beneath
“Desire your dreams.”
“Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.”
“Desire's wind blasts the thorntree but after it becomes from a bramblebush to be a rose upon the rood of time.”
Source: The Best of James Joyce
“Desire, and the ways in which men perform their masculinity and feel as if they can take up space and say anything about your body, have always been a dangerous space for me.”
“Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.”
Source: Desire: The Journey We Must Take to Find the Life God Offers
“Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary.”
“Desire, despair, desire. So many monsters.”
“Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.”
“Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Desire, instead of being an obstacle to an inspired and fulfilled life, is the very thing that propels you toward it.”
“Desire, liberated from its ties to the ego, realizes that it has no other aspiration than the fullness of Mahamudra and, as it sees in the same impulse that this plenitude is innate and limitless, it no longer aspires to any realization whatsoever. There is no longer anything but intimate vibration, continuous sacred tremoring, and the absence of localization in time and space.”
“Desire, loneliness, wind in the flowering almond— surely these are the great, the inexhaustible subjects to which my predecessors apprenticed themselves. I hear them echo in my own heart, disguised as convention.”
“Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“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.”
“Desired substance, things, patterns, or sequences of experience that are in some sense "good" for the organism - items of diet, conditions of life, temperature, entertainment, sex, and so forth - are never such that more of the something is always better than less of the something. Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.”
“Desiree Hall is a financial expert who is currently working with a major accountancy firm in Fort Lauderdale. Desiree Hall believes that this line of work is perfect for her skill set as she has always demonstrated a talent for working with number since a very young age.”
“Desiree. It's like falling in love every night and having your heart broken every morning... Having more memory is just a way of distorting a greater amount of the past.”
Source: Dermaphoria
“Desiree, Snoop Dogg fan since elementary school, had known for a long time that it was possible to limn the line between enthusiasm for form and endorsement of content. One did this every day, for various reasons. "It's an essential, tragic part of being a Black woman in America," Monique might have said. Most things were objectionable if you looked at them up close.”
Source: The Wilderness
“Desirelessness or renunciation does not come for the mere talking about it.”
Source: Gandhi: Selected Writings
“Desires and emotions as such are involuntary; they are not subject to direct and immediate volitional control; they are the automatic result of subconscious integrations. (...) It is impossible to compute the magnitude of the disaster, the wreckage of human lives, produced by the belief that desires and emotions can be commanded in and out of existence by an act of will.”
Source: The Disowned Self
“Desires and Karma are the worst enemies living in the same soul together. It depends on us whom we choose and feed.”
Source: Karma
“Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them.”
Source: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete