Quotes about Desire
Christ wants to lift us to where He is. Do we desire to do the same for others?
— Ezra Taft Benson
If What you re doing now was enough to get what you want, you'd already have it.
— Jack Canfield
The most venerable, clearly understood, enlightened, and reliable constant in the world is not only that we want to be happy, but that we want only to be so. Our very nature requires it of us.
— St. Augustine
Most people are as happy as they want to be.
— Abraham Lincoln
Every man is as holy as he really wants to be.
— AW Tozer
God doesn't need anything nevertheless He wants worshipers.
— AW Tozer
maybe he's falling in love with the idea of falling in love with me. Maybe he wants to be in love with someone and I've ended up in the right place at the right time.
— Candace Bushnell
People think they know what they want but they generally don't. Sometimes if they're lucky they'll get it anyways.
— Cormac McCarthy
You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And I should die there smothered.
— DH Lawrence
I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't.
— DH Lawrence
The suitable is the last thing we ever want.
— Ellen Glasgow
Most of us don't mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn't interfere with what we want to do, but it takes discipline and maturity to do what we ought to do whether we want to or not.
— Joseph Wirthlin