Quotes about Desire

Knowledge is the theoretical paradigm, the what to do and the why. Skill is the how to do. And desire is the motivation, the want to do. In order to make something a habit in our lives, we have to have all three.

Listening involves patience, openness, and the desire to understand—highly developed qualities of character.

Habit as the intersection of knowledge, skill, and desire.

It's sometimes a painful process. It's a change that has to be motivated by a higher purpose, by the willingness to subordinate what you think you want now for what you want later. But this process produces happiness, "the object and design of our existence." Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.

Knowledge is the theoretical paradigm, the what to do and the why. Skill is the how to do. And desire is the motivation, the want to do.

Process produces happiness, "the object and design of our existence." Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.

God's love, and hence the love with which we come to love God, is eros and agape at once: a desire for the other that delights in the distance of otherness.

The world today is hungry Not only for bread But hungry for love; Hungry to be wanted, Hungry to be loved.

When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.

My desire is that my Lord would give me broader and deeper thoughts, to feed myself with wondering at His love.

Love can wait to give; it is lust that can't wait to get.

Married love burns as fire, and seeks nothing more than the mate. It says, "I want only you"