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What wild desires, what restless torments seize
The hapless man, who feels the book-disease..."
- — John Ferriar

Not even a book on prosperity can prosper you, when what is expected of you is given, your time won't be wasted. — Michael Bassey Johnson

You will get what you wish for. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Men can dig wells, but they can't create water. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Faith is not Desire. Faith is Will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied, whereas Will is a force. Will changes the space around us, ... — Paulo Coelho

Put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; — Anonymous

God desires to reveal to us that His capacity to forgive is bigger than our capacity to sin. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Events are influenced by our very great desires. — William James

Every veil secretly desires to be lifted, except the veil of Hypocrisy. — Richard B. Garnett

True freedom is the choice to create the desires one believes in. — Steven Redhead

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity. — Mikhail Bakunin

I shall not set my desires on things of the world. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Orgasms are so much stronger when tempered in the flames of darkened desires and cooled in the waters of emotions. — Hedone

We must not subject him who creates to the desires of the multitude. It is, rather, his creation that must become the multitude's desire. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

You must live the life of your dreams. — Lailah Gifty Akita

And so a man's heart, driven into the darker regions of the soul, denied the very things he most deeply desires, comes out in darker places. — John Eldredge

I don't have much of a bucket list. I don't have a lot of needs and desires. — Fred DeLuca

I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself. — Abraham Lincoln

Even expression of love becomes bone of contention if destiny so desires. — Girdhar Joshi

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires. — James Russell Lowell

Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification. — Joseph Campbell

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak. — John Stuart Mill

Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires. — Os Guinness

It's a tough thing having to step aside for a friend, when your heart's breaking and your nether parts are still tangled up in their base desires. — Bill Willingham

God's Word must be the guide of your desires and the ground of your expectations in prayer. — Matthew Henry

Balancing hopes, desires and an appreciating of the possibilities with a clear-eyed assessment of the limitations: that is the art of choosing. — Sheena Iyengar

The smallness of our desires may contribute reasonably to our wealth. — William Cobbett

It's as if someone knew my innermost desires, and shaped you only for me, — Eloisa James

Renunciation of objects, without the renunciation of desires, is short-lived, however hard you may try. — Mahatma Gandhi

Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires. — Friedrich Nietzsche

God desires to reveal His heart to us and to build His heart into us as we seek His face. — Bill Mills

They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always. — Pierre Corneille

I would rather live a joyful simple life, doing what I love, than to be unhappy and rich. — Lailah Gifty Akita

To see a thing uncolored by one's own personal preferences and desires is to see it in its own pristine simplicity. — Bruce Lee

It's good to dream. We can't out-give God. We can't out-love him, and we can't out-dream him. — Stasi Eldredge

Those who act with few desires are calm, without worry or fear. — Gautama Buddha

We have to believe that the desires we have in our hearts will be fulfilled if we continue to trust and believe in him and His Word. — Chloe M. Gooden

But I want first of all- in fact, as an end to these other desires- to be at peace with myself. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Only one who liberates himself from his psychological desires and fears indeed in truth qualify as liberation hero. — Velupillai Prabhakaran

We each harbor a shadow self with shadowy motives and murky desires ... — John Geddes

The subconscious acts first on the dominating desires. — Napoleon Hill

I wish for adventure.
I wish to matter.
I wish for a home. — Sophie Jordan

You are the evil scientist of your desires. - Ignacio Rivera — Tristan Taormino

The Heart Desires to Be Free — Cynthia Belmer

Bear the pain of longing silently, my heart
for this is the cure.
The ultimate sacrifice is to curb your desires
and surrender the ego. — Rumi

Meditation becomes easier if you drop all your ambitions and desires. — Girdhar Joshi

Challenges come our way when we least expect them; our insecurities, desires, balance, & conscience are tested in the process. — April Mae Monterrosa

For everything that God desires to do in the earth, He enters into partnership with those to whom He has already given dominion. — Myles Munroe

When I first left Iran at the age of 13, Iran had become such a shining star - it was the point to which all my desires and dreams returned. — Azar Nafisi

It doesn't take objectivity to know what you want, and you're not objective enough to know what you need. — Amy Neftzger

You can use your imagination to get exactly what you desire. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A psychologically healthy person can, in fact, be defined as someone whose desires actually produce happiness. — Deepak Chopra

Memory is not what the heart desires. — J.R.R. Tolkien

[Krishna answers:] The man who has given up all desires, who desires nothing, not even this life, nor freedom, nor gods, nor work, nor anything. — Swami Vivekananda

I have lots of desires - good body, nice skin, cute, beautiful, knows how to cook, concentrates on her work, a girl that's worth the respect. — Seungri

When a husband and wife are concerned only about their own individual desires, the stage is set for conflict. — Billy Graham

Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone. — Alister E. McGrath

He who desires nothing but God is rich and happy. — Alphonsus Liguori

You can get what you want. It depends on the strength of your desire. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man's slavery — Paramahansa Yogananda

All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away. — Sri Aurobindo

By annihilating desires, you annihilate the mind. — Claude Adrien Helvetius

There exists a microscopic breed of brain beetle, commonly known as an 'idea'. An idea desires only one thing: To catch the perfect brain wave. — Leah Broadby

By writing out your desires and goals on a piece of paper, you send a red flag to your subconscious mind that these thoughts are far more important — Robin S. Sharma

The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression. — Eric Maisel

hell is full of good wishes and desires. — Bernard Of Clairvaux

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires. — Lao-Tzu

For years her emotions lay behind a wall she had constructed: the yearnings, the desires, the disappointment, and the pain. — Lacy Danes

Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself. — Plato

May your convictions be deep, your love real, and your desires earnest — Charles Spurgeon

It is how a person goes about quenching his desires or living with them unrequited that the readers get a glimpse of his true character. — Michael Connelly

Be brave to chase your dreams. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Set your desires in motion by connecting to the heart conscious. — Steven Redhead

There is only One Man Playing your Game, You! — Vineet Raj Kapoor

I also try to weigh my motives. Am I doing what I'm doing because it's what God desires, or because I'm afraid people will be disappointed if I don't? — Tricia Goyer

The skeptic, being a lover of his kind, desires to cure by speech, as best he can, the self-conceit and rashness of the dogmatists. — Sextus Empiricus

Insecure, ill-dressed chaos theorist desires intelligent, insightful, incandescent trends researcher. Must be SC. — Connie Willis

To be authentic is literally to be your own author, to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them. — Warren G. Bennis

Your desires will source you with the inspiration to release your outdated beliefs and let go of whatever behavior is keeping you stuck in the past. — Debbie Ford

The waters of her emotions ran deep, and he was only privy to the splashes on the surface. — Travis Luedke

Never lose hope. Never forget the power of intentions and desires. — Debasish Mridha

Dream. Desire. Dare. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Characters are story. And any great plot or subplot is driven
by the characters' wants and desires. — Robert Gregory Browne

That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

The world we see is a painting colored by our fears and desires. — Tim Fargo

Delayed gratification helps to limit the animalistic desire of human flesh. — Sunday Adelaja

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle.

A man never, in any instance, wills any thing contrary to his desires, or desires any thing contrary to his Will. — Jonathan Edwards

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence. — William Blake

Sometimes we have to meet people where they are, Ollie. Honor their desires, regardless of out own. — Tess Hilmo

All our desires are desires of the soul, ultimately,
Though they look like desires mental or sensory;
- 39 - — Munindra Misra

Trust your fears. When a quiet voice whispers, "you are being used", listen. Ignore your baser desires. — Michael R. Fletcher

It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires. — Hilary Mantel

Keep questioning! With time, you will find answers to your questions. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Not beauty, no, but virtue rais'd my fires, whose sacred flame did cherish chaste desires. — William Alexander, 1st Earl Of Stirling

Dreams have the power to make real what the heart desires. — Diana L. Paxson

Desires are already memories. — Italo Calvino

To be happy without your wants is greatest contentment. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Keep trusting God, He will give you what you need — Lailah Gifty Akita