Quotes about Desire
Our life is a gymnasium of desire.... When Christians say "God," what do we wish to express? This word is all that we yearn for."
— St. Augustine
You need to dream a bigger dream for yourself. That is the lesson. Hold the highest vision possible for your life and it can come true.
— Oprah Winfrey
I hear many people talk about their longing for a balanced life. What I think they are really expressing is a desire for a life with less pressure.
— Mary Anne Radmacher
Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing.
— George Eliot
Here's one of the great challenges of life. Being happy with what you have while in pursuit of what you want.
— Jim Rohn
One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
— Elias Canetti
The cost of food in the kingdom is hunger for the Bread of Life.
— John Piper
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
— Joseph Addison
It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.
— Thomas a Kempis
Dreams are essential to life.
— Anais Nin
All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness.
— CS Lewis
Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life.
— Timothy Keller