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Quotes about Desire

We're only what we are: a woman cycling with the moon, and a tribe of men trying to have sex with the sky.
— Barbara Kingsolver
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.
— Stephen Covey
Innocent pleasures in moderation can provide relaxation for the body and mind and can foster family and other relationships. But pleasure, per se, offers no deep, lasting satisfaction or sense of fulfillment. The pleasure-centered person, too soon bored with each succeeding level of "fun," constantly cries for more and more.
— Stephen Covey
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.
— Stephen Covey
Listening involves patience, openness, and the desire to understand—highly developed qualities of character.
— Stephen Covey
Habit as the intersection of knowledge, skill, and desire.
— Stephen Covey
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.
— Stephen Covey
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.
— Stephen Covey
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.
— Stephen Covey
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.
— David Bentley Hart
The world today is hungry Not only for bread But hungry for love; Hungry to be wanted, Hungry to be loved.
— Mother Teresa
When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.
— Oscar Wilde