Quotes of: Desirability Keyword

What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery.

Ellen Ochoa

The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature...

George Pierce Baker

There is no cause and effect, when one is connected to spirit, For when desires in a man diminish, he draws nearer to his spirit; When desires in a man cease to exist, he becomes immortal.

Gian Kumar

Our people have proven their desire for continuing with reforms. We complete the march today with those who have an honest patriotic desire for more progress and reform.

Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

Your desire is your prayer. Picture the fulfillment of your desire now and feel its reality and you will experience the joy of the answered. Dr. Joseph Murphy

Joseph Murphy

While a man desires a woman, His mind is bound As closely as a calf to its mother. As you would pluck an autumn lily, Pluck the arrow of desire.

Dhammapada

Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.

Samuel Alexander

The individual who desires to have his sins forgiven, must seek for it through the blood of Jesus. The individual who desires to get power over sin, must likewise seek it through the blood of Jesus.

George Muller

All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth.

Alfred Marshall

Desire is the first thing a modern dancer should have. Skill can be developed. But if you don't have desire as a modern dancer, forget it.

Twyla Tharp

To pretend to satisfy one's desires with worldly goods is like using straw to put out a fire.

Chinese

Only an unsatisfied preference is bad. In other words, he argues that although it is good to have fulfilled whatever desires one might have, one is not better off having a fulfilled desire than having no desire at all. By way of example, consider the...

Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence

He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive.

Italian

There is no destination; when you manifest the love, health, money you so desire and deserve, you will have the desire to manifest more. Your soul wants all these experiences and declaring your desires is just a way of directing you towards a pathway...

Don't Think Of a Blue Ball

The Christian does not avoid sin to achieve salvation, but rather salvation brings him to a desire not to sin. The closer that one's spirit is synchronized with the holy knowledge of God, the more he comprehends how and why sin is destructive to hims...

Killosophy

...if there really is some day discovered a formula for all our desires and caprices - that is, an explanation of what they depend upon, by what laws they arise, how they develop, what they are aiming at in one case and in another and so on, that is ...

Notes from Underground

People sometimes imagine that without desire there would be no enjoyment. The opposite is true. When you're caught up in craving, you never really enjoy anything very much because your mind is always pulling you on to the next desire and the next aft...

The Lost Art of Compassion: Discovering the Practice of Happiness in the Meeting of Buddhism and Psychology

It's only people, as far as we know, who look up at the stars and wonder what they are.

Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It

The increased desire to please God and seek HIS approval will decrease the desire to seek approval from man.

The Day My Soul Cried: A Memoir

The remedy of disharmony is not in surrender but in understanding more about ones self & acting out of pure Will... Desire 2 will; The art of transforming a desire into a formidable force of True Will

Destiny Re scripted

A major challenge we face today, therefore, is to create a desire in people to learn; and to foster and facilitate this desire throughout their lives.

E Learning: Concepts And Practice