Quotes about Desire

Happy are they who are found wanting.

Our best fare here is hunger.

Christ hath come, and run away to heaven with my heart and my love, so that neither heart nor love is mine.

We love to carry heaven to heaven with us, and would have two summers in one year, and no less than two heavens; but this will not be for us: one, and such an one, may suffice us well enough. The Man Christ got but one only, and shall we have two?

And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.

And that almost everyone was struggling to wake up, to be loved, and not feel so afraid all the time. That's what the cars, degrees, booze, and drugs were about.

Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.

You will be a happier person if you don't do what you want to do, most of the time.

The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.

To desire revival...and at the same time to neglect(personal) prayer and devotion is to wish one way and walk another.

It's unbelievable how tenaciously we cling to what we've prayed to be released from.

Another miraculous transformation is the shift from a sales mentality to a service mentality. When we're motivated by the desire to sell, we're only looking out for ourselves.  When we're motivated by the desire to serve, we're looking out for others.  Since in the realm of consciousness, we only get to keep what we give away, a service mentality is a far more abundant attitude.