“Spirit is the key to everything we desire. It is our weather-proofing, our Teflon, our line of credit that assures if we just keep putting one foot in front of the other, one day; there will be a miraculous payoff.” IfsSpiritDesireLinesFeetFrontsKeysOne DayCreditWeatherMiraculousPayoffTeflon Author:Iyanla Vanzant
“One must have a high opinion of a work of art - not the work one is creating at the moment, but of that which one desires to achieve one day. Without this it is not worthwhile working.” ArtMomentsDesireOpinionAchieveFutureOne DayCreatingWorks Of ArtWorthwhileDesire To Achieve Book:Edgar Degas: Paintings Source: Edgar Degas: Paintings
“An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.” WorldShouldLongDesireBeliefChildhoodSceneOne DayFancyEnthusiasticVisitingOld WorldEarly Childhood Book:Views A-foot: Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff Source: Views A-foot: Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff
“A zealous disciple expressed a desire to teach others the Truth and asked the Master what he thought about this. The Master said, "Wait." Each year the disciple would return with the same request and each time the Master would give him the same reply: "Wait." One day he said to the Master, "When will I be ready to teach?" Said the Master, "When your excessive eagerness to teach has left you.” GivingYearsSaidDesireLeftWaitingTeachReadyMastersReturnOne DayDiscipleRequestEagernessZealous Author:Anthony de Mello
“An Italian philosopher said that "time was his estate"; an estate indeed which will produce nothing without cultivation, but will always abundantly repay the labors of industry, and generally satisfy the most extensive desires, if no part of it be suffered to lie in waste by negligence, to be overrun with noxious plants, or laid out for show rather than for use.” IfsSaidUseShowsLyingDesireProduceIndustryOne DayWasteLaborPlantPhilosopherItalianEstatesCultivationNegligence Author:Samuel Johnson
“I've been inspired by films since I started dancing, and I'm married to a filmmaker, and I think it was one of my secret desires, but I was afraid to just say, 'I want to be a director'. But then one day I said, O.K., stop dreaming and do it. But I didn't want to do it the Hollywood way, and talk through agents. I decided it all had to be generated by me, so I wrote it.” ThinkingWayWantSaidDreamFilmDesireSecretOne DayDirectorsMarriedDecidedHollywoodDancingInspiredAgentsFilmmakerStop DreamingSecret Desire Author:Madonna Ciccone
“One day, I went to a soba restaurant outside town, and while I was waiting for the zarusoba I opened an old graph magazine. There was a picture of an exhausted, lonely kneeling woman who wore a checked patterned yukata after the tradegy of a large earthquake. With the intensity of my chest ready to burn up, I fell in love with that poor woman. I also felt a horrifying desire for her. Maybe tragedy and desire are back to back to one another.” DesireFeltWaitingPoorReadyOne DayLonelyTragedyTownsMagazinesRestaurantsChestsIntensityExhaustedEarthquakesKneelingGraphs Author:Osamu Dazai
“... [a] girl one day flared out and told the principal "the only mission opening before a girl in his school was to marry one of those candidates [for the ministry]." He said he didn't know but it was. And when at last that same girl announced her desire and intention to go to college it was received with about the same incredulity and dismay as if a brass button on one of those candidate's coats had propounded a new method for squaring the circle or trisecting the arc.” IfsKnowsSaidSchoolLastsDesireGirlCollegeOne DayMethodIntentionMissionsCirclesOpeningCandidatesMinistryPrincipalButtonsCoatsArcsBrassDismayIncredulity Author:Anna Julia Cooper
“Though our private desires are ever so confused, though our private requests are ever so broken, and though our private groanings are ever so hidden from men, yet God eyes them, records them, and puts them upon the file of heaven, and will one day crown them with glorious answers and returns.” MenEyeDesireHeavenAnswersRecordsBrokenReturnOne DayConfusedGloriousCrownsFilesRequestGroaningSo Confused Author:Thomas Brooks