Quotes about Desire
A friendship founded on usefulness or pleasure. In this kind of love, the lover loves himself more than his friend. That is why, if the friend ever prevents him from realizing what he wants, his love turns to hate.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Do not say we work to go to Heaven because we are mercenary. Does a man love a woman and ask for her hand because he is mercenary? I love poetry; there's no money in it.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Peace belongs only to those who will to have it.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
We are wired to find love.
— Helen Fisher
The wish for healing has always been half of health.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I wanted to be a ballet dancer. I was bad - I'm not very coordinated. But I always wished I could have been a dancer.
— Gia Coppola
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
— St. Augustine
The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.
— Martin Luther
Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
— Joseph Addison
The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.
— Wayne Dyer
Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.
— Wayne Dyer
Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement!
— John Piper