Quotes of: Desires Keyword

The trees called to me, urging me to abandon what I knew and vanish into the oncoming night. It was a desire that had been tugging me with disconcerting frequency these days.

Shiver

We need to make our own miracles, it is a wasted exercise to just wait for miracles to happen; they need a spark of energy and desire to make them come true.

The Solution

If you have a deep desire to move forward, a way is being prepared for you.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquility.

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

One day, when you are sitting with my sister, Mahgen, around a fire, and you're feeling how perfectly right it is to be next to her, this moment, this tease of desire between us, will be long forgotten.

Magnificence

Truth was she liked that he came after her. She liked the thought of being under submission to him in an intimate way. It was a welcome desire which Wharick alone sparked.

Magnificence

Men's desire - it stopped for nothing. Even then,even when I was stained the lurid color of waste -- even then someone wanted me.

Miss Me a Lot Of

I never realised how powerful desire could be. It consumes every part of you, enhancing your senses by a million.

Maybe Someday

Yet none of these things gave him confidence. All they gave him was egotism, which is less the conviction of one's worth than the desire for that conviction.

The Moonflower Vine

It is by desiring to grow in love that we receive the Holy Spirit, and the thirst for more charity is the effect of this more abundant reception.

No Man Is an Island

A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.

Nature

Lust, desire and passion. They can turn a wallflower into a sexual predator and a rational person into a raving lunatic.

Love and Sex Signs: Venus, Mars and Astrology

It is during our failures that we discover our true desire for success.

Let's Do This! 100 Powerful Messages to Help You Take Action

It is impossible for a Parisian to resist the desire to flick through the old volumes laid out by a bookseller. [ ]

Les Filles du feu - Les Chimères

... the Iroquois take dreams very seriously. They see them as the secret wishes of the soul--the heart's desire, so to speak. Not all dreams, maybe, but the important ones. [p.254]

The Lake of Dreams

Sin is not just what the catechism says it is. Sin is not simply that which we commit. Sin is also what we desire but are too weak to do.

La mujer justa

The contented person finds rest in death, and for the greedy person, death puts an end to his long list of desires.

Lieh-tzu: A Taoist Guide to Practical Living

It was time to let go of the mad desire to remember. It was time to start living whatever life would come. In the present, not the past.

Let's Get Lost

I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs.

Letter to a Christian Nation

And she thought if you don't have the desire to fight or wait for something there's no reason for being on earth.

Last Stand at Saber River

Beware of your gifts; they may appear as tiny as seeds but at the end, they’ll gain roots to bear fruits to feed the world if only you will desire to water them regularly!

Leaders' Watchwords