Quotes about Desire

There's something in all of us that wants a medal for what we have done. That wants to be appreciated.

I wish you were with me, or I with you.

And I try to teach my heart not to want nothing it can't have.

I talk to myself a lot, standing in front the mirror. Celie, I say, happiness was just a trick in your case. Just cause you never had any before Shug, you thought it was time to have some, and that it was gon last. Even thought you had the trees with you. The whole earth. The stars. But look at you. When Shug left, happiness desert.

I think she thought she love him. But he got so many of us. All needing somethin'.

I treated you so mean. Like you was a servant. And all because Albert married you. And I didn't even want him for a husband,' she say. 'I never really wanted Albert for a husband. But just to choose me, you know?

Once us feel loved by God, us do the best us can to please him with what us like.

Keep the right perspective Some people would love to have your problems. They would gladly trade places with you. They would love to have the job that frustrates you. They would love to sit in traffic in that car you don't like. They would love to have your husband, who gets on your nerves. They would love to live in the house you think is too small.

If you hold on to what you want so tightly, it almost becomes an idol.

An important mark of saving faith, then, is that a convert not only wants to be delivered from the corruption of sin, but that he also hungers and thirsts after righteousness and holiness.

Whatever you want too much you can't have, so when you really want something, try to want it a little less.

Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.