Best emotional & desire Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.”

People Spiritual Desire Understanding Emotional Longing Experts Priests Attachment Rabbi

Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf

“A continuous perception is taking place deep within the mind. It is hard to hear that signal because it is blurred over by your own thoughts, desires, and fears. It is blurred over by your emotional swings. You become dull.”

Mind Hard Desire Seeing Emotional Perception Dull Swings Signals Deep Within

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The saddest thing in the world was that human beings, for all their ardent striving and desire, could never achieve physical, emotional, or intellectual perfection. The species was doomed to imperfection; it thrashed forever in despair or denial of that fact.”

World Humans Facts Desire Human Beings Forever Achieve Emotional Despair Intellectual Perfection Species Strive Denial Imperfection Doomed Saddest Ardent

Book:Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel

Source: Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel

“Medicare, getting through that in the '60s, after Kennedy's assassination, where there was such an emotional desire to do something to carry on his agenda.”

Desire Emotional Agendas Medicare Assassination

Author:Chris Matthews

“I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviate myself. To present the CliffNotes of the emotional me, as opposed to the twelve-column read.”

Kind Mean Desire Emotional Waste Addiction Chemicals Twelve Columns

Author:Carrie Fisher

“The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interests of the desire to know-it involves suppression of hopes and fears, loves and hates, and the whole subjective emotional life, until we become subdued to the material, able to see it frankly, without preconceptions, without bias, without any wish except to see it as it is, and without any belief that what it is must be determined by some relation, positive or negative, to what we should like it to be, or to what we can easily imagine it to be.”

Source: Mysticism and Logic

“In language at once stark and delicate, Suki Kim shatters the polemic of North and South Korea. She couples an investigative reporter's fierce desire to strip away the fiction of the Hermit Kingdom with an immigrant's insatiable hunger for an emotional home, no matter how troubled and no matter how impossible.”

“Beauty ensnares hearts, captures minds, and stirs up emotional wildfires. From Plato to pinups, images of human beauty have catered to a limitless desire to see and imagine an ideal human form.”

Mind Humans Heart Form Desire Beauty Imagine Emotional Ideals Capture Plato Limitless Human Form Wildfires Pinup

Author:Nancy Etcoff

“When you're dealing with the world of dreams, the psyche, and potential of a human mind, there has to be emotional stakes. You have to deal with issues of memory and desire.”

World Mind Humans Dream Desire Memories Deals Issues Emotional Human Mind Stakes

Author:Christopher Nolan

“The desire to be a good father is really innate. There aren't a lot of movies that depict that relationship because men, we have to pretend that we're not that emotional about it.”

Men Desire Father Emotional Innate Good Father

Author:Will Smith

“If you desire to know where your spiritual work lies, look to your emotional pain.”

Ifs Knows Looks Pain Spiritual Lying Desire Emotional Emotional Pain Spiritual Work

Author:Alan Cohen

“Healing... is an active and internal process that includes investigating one's attitudes, memories and beliefs with the desire to release all negative patterns that prevent one's full emotional and spiritual recovery. This internal review inevitably leads one to review one's external circumstances in an effort to recreate one's life in a way that serves activation of will - the will to see and accept truths about one's life and how one has used one's energies; and the will to begin to use energy for the creation of love, self-esteem, and health.”

Source: Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing

“There's an attraction to emotional clusters or hypocrisies or awkwardness. A desire to expose something or point at something that's already poking out.”

Desire Emotional Attraction Hypocrisy Awkwardness Clusters

Author:Victoria Chang

“Use your mind. Remember. Observe. You are not different from others. Most of their experiences are valid for you too. Think clearly and deeply, go into the structure of your desires and their ramifications. They are a most important part of your mental and emotional make-up and powerfully affect your actions. Remember, you cannot abandon what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself.”

Thinking Knows Mind Important Different Use Action Remember Desire Emotional Structure Abandon Know Yourself Remember You Remembers You Ramifications

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“So, no matter what your personal aspiration, it is important to articulate it and implant it firmly in your heart and mind. Determined mental and emotional focus will invariably manifest the achievement of your desire more quickly than anything else.”

Mind Heart Important Matter Desire Focus Emotional Achievement No Matter What Determined Aspiration Manifest Heart And Mind Implants

Author:Dannion Brinkley

“I no longer protect myself from the world I grew up in. Rather, today I try to protect the feelings I have for that world, the emotional space where my desire to write first took hold, and still grows.”

World Writing Trying Firsts Stills Feelings Today Desire Grows Space Emotional Grew Protect Grew Up

Author:Elena Ferrante

“My real motivation came from my desire for music videos to have the same equal soul-touching emotional resonance that straight music does.”

Doe Real Soul Desire Motivation Emotional Equal Video Touching Resonance

Author:Chris Milk

“The fact that we all leave behind seemingly insignificant clues behind ourselves - emotional DNA or what I call Small Data - which are able to describe with an insane accuracy who we really are, our personalities and desires. But even more how we all represents out of balances - perhaps I feel too overweight, feel alone or feel I haven't achieved what I'd hoped for when hitting 40. These imbalances are surprisingly visible when visiting consumers' homes - and surprisingly invisible when relaying on Big Data.”

Feels Facts Home Bigs Able Desire Behinds Havens Emotional Personality Balance Invisible Insane Data Consumers Visible Hitting Clue Dna Insignificant Accuracy Visiting Overweight Imbalance

Author:Martin Lindstrom

“We know that we need to explore desire in fiction - many say that the only way a story exists is that a character feels a strong desire - and nature is the place where creatures act on their desires in the most pure way imaginable, so maybe nature also works as a metaphor for whatever emotional troubles my characters have to negotiate. I'm interested in my characters as survivors, and maybe that works best when the old-fashioned notion of humans surviving in wilderness is not too far away.”

Character Desire Strong Trouble Emotional Metaphor Wilderness Survivor Far Away Surviving

Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell

“All people share the same desire to be treated equally. We all go through similar emotional journeys from love to hate, rejection to acceptance. I think the most important thing for dance right now is to allow for more empathy and understanding between people of different races and socioeconomic statuses. In our society we need to build bridges.”

People Thinking Important Different Desire Hate Understanding Journey Share Acceptance Emotional Empathy Rejection Love Hate

Author:Dana Tai Soon Burgess

“I think hunger is a natural state of being for most people. I mean, hunger is a desire - and you don't only have physical hunger, you have emotional hunger. A lot of my hungers are, in fact, emotional. I think a lot of fat people's hungers are emotional. There are things we very much want, and it can be so difficult to satisfy those hungers. Yet we try. We try so hard.”

People Thinking Trying Mean Desire Difficult Natural Emotional Hunger

Author:Roxane Gay

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