Quotes about Desire
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death... these are things that unite us all.
— Albert Camus
Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like.
— William Law
Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.
— Wayne Dyer
Nothing so casts down the manly mind from it's height as the fondling of women and those bodily contacts which belong to the married state.
— St. Augustine
A psychologist once told me that for a boy being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There's always a desire to please each one.
— Hillary Clinton
There is always something a woman will prefer to the truth.
— Samuel Johnson
Passion gives you what you want, lust gives you what you desire, but only love gives you what you need.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Most of our addictions [shopping, food, bad relationships] as women flare up when we feel that we are not loved or sought after.
— John Eldredge
God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
— Henry Ward Beecher
A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.
— Thomas Merton
Attachment to spiritual things is.. just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
— Thomas Merton