Desiring Quotes
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It's not desiring the fall; it's terror of the flames.
— David Foster Wallace
The secret to happiness is to admire without desiring.
— Carl Sandburg
This is what sexism does best: it makes you feel crazy for desiring parity and hopeless about ever achieving it.
— Deborah Copaken Kogan
You must be a poet,a lady of evil luck
desiring to be what you are not,
longing to be
what you can only visit. — Anne Sexton
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
— George Bernard Shaw
Most of the time reason for unhappiness is, desiring for the things which are far from our expectations.
— Sriveena Dhagavkar
Believing that you cannot have something is the same thing as not desiring to have it, for it produces the same result.
— Neale Donald Walsch
Most of the times, reason for unhappiness is desiring for the things which are far from fulfilling our expectations.
— Sriveena Dhagavkar
To her all things are poignantly lacking - but she is incapable of desiring anything.
— Beryl Markham
Good character consists of knowing the good, desiring the good, and doing the good habits of the mind, habits of the heart, and habits of action.
— Thomas Lickona
the way we can know if we've betrayed ourselves is by whether we are still desiring to be helpful.
— The Arbinger Institute
All that I desire in life are three ... A wilderness: A beach on the sun-drenched sea,
A puff of opium,
And thee. — Roman Payne
Still desiring, we live without hope.
— Dante Alighieri
Persons desiring to know what love is might benefit more if they were able to understand what love is not.
— Floyd Henderson
Surrendering means non-desiring.
— Rajneesh
Consumers desiring a better world have already achieved some successes in this regard, helping to transform several industries from the ground up.
— Simon Mainwaring
The hardest memory of slavery that Rialla had to bear was not the lack of freedom; it was the lack of desiring freedom.
— Patricia Briggs
Desiring a will was not enough. I would have needed precisely what I could not have without willpower: a will.
— Marcel Proust
All things of this phenomenal world are mere illusion. They are worth neither discussing nor desiring.
— Yoshida Kenko
Do you want me? I am yours.
— Mark Andrew Poe
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
— Ezra Pound
Leaders don't fall in love with mediocrity. The status quo isn't their desire to maintain but to improve.
— Israelmore Ayivor
People are disposed to mistake predicting troubles for causing troubles and even for desiring troubles.
— Enoch Powell
Love is giving without desiring, it's giving without requiring, but know that it will be returned. Maybe not as expected, but as needed
— Gerald Mills
Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own
— Emanuel Swedenborg
There is a creative spirit in you desiring to be free, and you may as well get out of its way for it will give you no peace until you do.
— Mary Caroline Richards
Man is busy desiring to find something which only he can do so that his ego acquires importance.
— Rajneesh
Warriors of light are not perfect.Their beauty lies in accepting this fact and still desiring to grow and to learn.
— Paulo Coelho
I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes.
— William H Gass
When we pour out our miseries, He hears a melody of us needing and desiring what only He can give.
— Stacey Thacker
Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Enjoy what you have rather than desiring what you don't have
— Craig Groeschel
Funny, that. For so long Wormwood had desired the throne and then, when he'd had it, it hadn't been worth desiring after all.
— John Connolly
I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them.
— Eleanora Duse
Medical men have searched the world for remedies, desiring an antidote. Chiropractors find the cause in the person ailing.
— B. J. Palmer
Most souls labor under a self imposed curse of desiring but never truly giving themselves over to love.
— Michael Xavier
Desiring the unattainable; that's all this is about,
— Kamila Shamsie
When it comes to desiring, we are all experts. If there were an Olympics of desiring, we would all make the team.
— William Braxton Irvine
Desiring is a part of dreaming.
— Beth Nimmo
Stop fussing over me, woman. I will be whole again shortly, and then you can resume ogling me and desiring my body.
— Katie MacAlister
We must not simply desire God; we must live in total dependence.
— Dillon Burroughs
A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it.
— George Eliot
Desiring the exhilarations of changes: The motive for metaphor, shrinking from
The weight of primary noon ... — Wallace Stevens
I don't recall ever desiring to go as fast as possible.
— Hannah Kearney
God's love looks for those who feel unlovely, desiring to make them beautiful again.
— Natalie Grant
All plot comes from the character's trying to get something, to achieve something, wanting, desiring, longing.
— Robert Olen Butler
I like myself as I am, more desiring than desirable.
— Virginie Despentes
If you are not realizing your desires, you are not desiring in faith with all your heart.
— Grant Von Harrison
Essential to life, is desiring the things that you need, than needing the things you desire.
— Anthony Liccione
Before strongly desiring anything, we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Desiring money kills desire. Money kills desire.
— Andre Chamson
Look at your children in faith, and see how many people will be ministered to by your ministering to them.
— Desiring God
Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.
— John Ruskin
By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
— Democritus
