Quotes about Desire
Wouldn't it be something if we could have things we love in abudance without their losing that special attraction the want of them held for us.
— Dolly Parton
Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
All my desire was the conversion of the heathen... I declare, now I am dying, I would not have spent my life otherwise for the whole world.
— David Brainerd
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
— Epicurus
The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive.
— Coco Chanel
The pursuit of purity is not about the suppression of lust, but about the reorientation of one's life to a larger goal.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
— Samuel Beckett
A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.
— Milan Kundera
We are made in the image of God; we carry within us the desire for our true life of intimacy and adventure. To say we want less than that is to lie.
— John Eldredge
There is nothing on earth that can satisfy our deepest longing. We long to see God. The leaves of life are rustling with the rumor that we will - and we won't be satisfied until we do.
— Max Lucado
When you find your heart's desire, you'll have the key to unlocking your potential in every other part of your life.
— Brian Tracy
It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from.
— CS Lewis