Quotes about Desire
It is true that God desires all men to be saved (2 Peter 3-9), but that they have to choose to love him and believe in him. Now God can't force anyone to love him. Forced love is a contradiction in terms.
— Norman Geisler
Love must be free: it is a free choice. So in spite of God's desire, some men do not choose to love him. All who go to hell do so because of their free choice. They may not want to go to hell, but they do will it.
— Norman Geisler
fear brings about that which one is afraid of, and hyper-intention makes impossible what one wishes
— Viktor E. Frankl
fear brings about that which one is afraid of, and that hyper-intention makes impossible what one wishes.
— Viktor E. Frankl
paradoxical intention" on the twofold fact that fear brings about that which one is afraid of, and that hyper-intention makes impossible what one wishes.
— Viktor E. Frankl
Love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.
— Viktor E. Frankl
To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!
— Virginia Woolf
I desired always to stretch the night and fill it fuller and fuller with dreams.
— Virginia Woolf
But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing.
— Virginia Woolf
You wish to be a poet; you wish to be a lover. But the splendid clarity of your intelligence, and the remorseless honestly of your intellect bring you to a halt.
— Virginia Woolf
Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue.
— Virginia Woolf
Sometimes, one trembling star comes in the clear sky and makes me think the world beautiful and we maggots deforming even the trees with our lusts.
— Virginia Woolf