Body. Soul. Mind. Sensations: the body. Desires: the soul. Reasoning: the mind. Votes: 3
Marcus AureliusDesires going before conversion are not such as can calm a storming conscience. Votes: 3
Samuel RutherfordDesires that are just are termed Truth. Without desires, Truth cannot be understood. Votes: 3
Zicheng HongDesires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions. Votes: 3
Dallin H. OaksDesires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them. Votes: 3
Giacomo CasanovaOf course, not all desires lead to happiness. Desires can and do lead to pain and frustration. Votes: 3
Rod StrykerDesires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer. Lack of desire is poverty. Votes: 3
Dietrich BonhoefferWhosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times. Votes: 2
Niccolo MachiavelliTo educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires. Votes: 2
James Russell LowellSeek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. Votes: 2
Frank HerbertCompassion brings fulfillment to the heart. Selfish desires simply agitate the heart. Votes: 1
Radhanath SwamiNot until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue. Votes: 1
Dietrich BonhoefferOur duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers. Votes: 1
Henri-Frédéric AmielOne that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent. Votes: 1
EpictetusThe price of love is only love, ... one must love if one desires to be loved. Votes: 1
Honore d'UrfeLife is a game, you live so you play. Follow your dreams and win what your happy heart desires. Votes: 1
Roel van SleeuwenSuccess is the byproduct of desires, purpose-oriented actions, and persistence. Votes: 0
Debasish MridhaDemocratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheHope greets your desires warmly while doubts insult your efforts bitterly! Votes: 0
Israelmore AyivorFor man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions. Votes: 0
Reinhold NiebuhrQuick gratification of desires, often lead to low stratifications in life Votes: 0
Constance Chuks FridayWhile man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheOur desires attract supporting reasons as a magnet the iron fillings. Votes: 0
William Macneile DixonEverything humanity have achieved is achieved by dreams, desires, and actions. Votes: 0
Debasish MridhaKama purusharth advocates desires fulfilled be,Albeit in awareness, without harming anybody; Votes: 0
Munindra MisraTrue peacefulness comes from abandoning the illustion that satisfying desires brings pleasure. Votes: 0
Joan Z. BorysenkoSin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification. Votes: 0
Joseph CampbellIn matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires. Votes: 0
James HuttonBe an earnest student of yourself. Study your leading desires and tendencies. Votes: 0
Grenville KleiserPreceding accomplishment must be desire. Thy desires must be strong and definite. Votes: 0
George S. ClasonUse your unconscious mind to read other people's intents, emotions, and desires. Votes: 0
Nick MorganAlmost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal. Votes: 0
Victor HugoI've always assumed there's a dark river flowing beneath my fans' desires. Votes: 0
Steven MorrisseyLeadership is the bridge of integrity that connects goals, desires, and actions. Votes: 0
Steve MaraboliAnyone who wishes to destroy humanity's past, desires to destroy its future. Votes: 0
Mario J. LuceroHaters possess misplaced admiration; your life reflects unmanifest desires of their heart. Votes: 0
LaShaun Middlebrooks CollierSome form of self-discipline is necessary to transmute material desires into spiritual aspirations. Votes: 0
Paramahansa YoganandaGod desires to free our country from darkness through our active civil position. Votes: 0
Sunday AdelajaI am gazing-- desires unaware of destiny frisk about my mindscape like children. Votes: 0
Suman PokhrelSmall, deliberate actions inspired by your true desires create a life you love. Votes: 0
Danielle LaPorteThe vanity of shining in conversation is usually subversive of its own desires. Votes: 0
Lydia SigourneyEach man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations. Votes: 0
Aulus Persius FlaccusIt is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires. Votes: 0
Jean-Jacques RousseauFairyland is the loveliest word because it means everything the human heart desires. Votes: 0
Lucy Maud MontgomeryDon't limit your imagination,the best part of your life,is living your desires. Votes: 0
Ebelsain VillegasHappiness is there when your dreams, hopes, and desires are compatible with your actions. Votes: 0
Debasish MridhaThe affirmation of one's essential being in spite of desires and anxieties creates joy. Votes: 0
Paul TillichLet the future remain uncertain, for that is the canvas to receive our desires. Votes: 0
Brian HerbertUncovering your real desires can be terrifying. It can also set you spectacularly free. Votes: 0
Mark EpsteinA man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires. Votes: 0
Bertrand RussellIf one desires to receive one must first give. This is called profound understanding. Votes: 0
LaoziFreedom is within oneself. But to get beyond the thoughts and desires requires power. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellPolitics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest. Votes: 0
Thomas SowellMan tends always to satisfy his needs and desires with the least possible exertion. Votes: 0
Albert J. NockIt was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them. Votes: 0
Erich Maria RemarqueMen and women's needs and desires overlap but go in different directions as well. Votes: 0
Nicolas RoegEnergy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence. Votes: 0
William BlakeHoliness gives us new desires and brings old desires into line with one another. Votes: 0
Timothy KellerThe cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires. Votes: 0
Jean-Luc GodardWe trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none. Votes: 0
Christian Nestell BoveeCuriosity is the fire of desires that burns the dust to reveal the diamond. Votes: 0
Debasish MridhaWhoever desires to purify his heart, then let him prefer Allah to his desires Votes: 0
Ibn Qayyim Al-JawziyyaLove is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing. Votes: 0
Madeleine de ScuderyEvery man, it seems, interprets the world in the light of his habits and desires Votes: 0
Richard WrightYou always have to measure your desires and goals against your ego and your humility. Votes: 0
Sebastian CopelandMost women have small waists the world throughout, But their desires are thousand miles about. Votes: 0
Cyril TourneurGod doesn't desire our worship because He is egocentric. He desires it because we are. Votes: 0
Mark HartWhen people can't control their desires... we have to pass laws to stop their desires. Votes: 0
Rick SantorumWhen your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve. Votes: 0
Napoleon HillThose who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained. Votes: 0
William BlakeA reality shaped around your own desires -- there is something sociopathic in that ambition. Votes: 0
Zadie SmithThus when we fondly flatter our desires, Our best conceits do prove the greatest liars. Votes: 0
Michael DraytonMans desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived. Votes: 0
William BlakeWhen your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve. Votes: 0
Napoleon HillGeometry alone is not enough to portray human desires, expressions, aspirations, joys. We need more. Votes: 0
Akira YoshizawaNo human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Votes: 0
Orson Scott CardOur desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone. Votes: 0
Alister E. McGrathWe have to have a purpose greater than the endless struggle to satisfy personal desires. Votes: 0
Eknath EaswaranA revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another. Votes: 0
George Bernard ShawMy intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. Votes: 0
Mason CooleyYour soul's desires compel you to grow, evolve and move closer to your highest potential. Votes: 0
Debbie FordDestroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you. Votes: 0
Fyodor DostoevskyNot beauty, no, but virtue rais'd my fires, whose sacred flame did cherish chaste desires. Votes: 0
William Alexander, 1st Earl of StirlingElusive dreams and vague desires fanned to fiery needs by deadly deeds of falling empires. Votes: 0
Joni MitchellTo the soul's desires The body listens What the flesh requires Keeps the heart imprisoned Votes: 0
Frank HerbertSpeak it into existence and your words, through your desires, will bring it into fruition. Votes: 0
Sovereign VoiceNot one amongst the doctors, as you'll see For his own friends desires to prescribe. Votes: 0
PhilemonThink and imagine the possibilities of your heart's desires. You will attract them to you. Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty AkitaDelight yourself in the Lord.He shall give you all the desires of your heart. Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty AkitaI can wade through contrast and give birth to desires without yielding my Well Being. Votes: 0
Esther HicksBlessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires. Votes: 0
Saint AugustineSometimes we forget that our Heavenly Father desires that each of us have this joy. Votes: 0
Robert D. HalesMy endeavors Have ever come too short of my desires. Yet filed with my abilities. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareYou can be sure that your deepest desires reveal important truths about your spiritual condition. Votes: 0
Tullian TchividjianThe one who has no control over his desires has no control over his mind. Votes: 0
Ali ibn Abi TalibTo me, Shakespeare uses the supernatural elements to reveal his character's inner desires and fears. Votes: 0
John FosterIn the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond... Votes: 0
Khalil GibranA "Bay Area Bisexual" told me I didn't quite coincide with either of her desires. Votes: 0
Woody AllenLiterature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy. Votes: 0
Antonio TabucchiOur soul can find in the Blessed Sacrament all the joys and consolations it desires. Votes: 0
Teresa of Avila...I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.... Votes: 0
F. Scott Fitzgeraldwho desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth. Votes: 0
Paul the ApostleEscape from boredom is one of the really powerful desires of almost all human beings. Votes: 0
Bertrand RussellGod desires to use every believer to spread his kingdom everywhere in a grand manner. Votes: 0
Sunday AdelajaIt is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized. Votes: 0
AristotleMiracles are everywhere to be found When I surrender my infinite desires To my immortal aspirations. Votes: 0
Sri ChinmoyContrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch. Votes: 0
Carlos Ruiz ZafonA muse can be a mirror: a reflection of the artist's desires, anxieties, dreams and needs. Votes: 0
Vince AlettiBring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. Votes: 0
AristotleThe child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced. Votes: 0
John RuskinFreedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires. Votes: 0
Bertrand RussellAs all-consuming as a young girl's fancies were ... a woman's desires could be twice as dangerous. Votes: 0
Teresa MedeirosNew-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety. Votes: 0
MolierePhilosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it. Votes: 0
Victor HugoAnd Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires. Votes: 0
William BlakeThe point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you've been harboring since you were 7. Votes: 0
Guillermo del ToroEvery man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonWe were sexual targets, marked as eternal sluts for exploring the desires only acceptable in men. Votes: 0
Maggie YoungA low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonTemperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire. Votes: 0
Saint AugustinePoverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires. Votes: 0
PlatoWe're all stuck between the realm of our desires, their possibilities and the realities of life. Votes: 0
Huseyn RazaWhen ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou has passed through. Votes: 0
Ieyasu TokugawaOur vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheMy Nafs screams out for what it desires. But my will to be free screams louder. Votes: 0
Yasmin MogahedThe future is needed as a space to project your desires. To project, future is needed. Votes: 0
RajneeshOur duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers. Votes: 0
Henri Frederic AmielOur desires, be they spiritual or temporal, should be rooted in a love of the Lord. Votes: 0
Ezra Taft BensonEvery room has a mood or personality...and it is this that one desires to develop. Votes: 0
Eleanor BrownEither we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires. Votes: 0
Os GuinnessWars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. Votes: 0
SocratesHe who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. Votes: 0
John MiltonFreedom is secured not by the fulfilling of men's desires, but by the removal of desire. Votes: 0
EpictetusTo have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship. Votes: 0
SallustAs our means increase, so do our desires;and we ever stand midway between the two. Votes: 0
Jerome K. JeromeIf I can create the minimum of my plans and desires there shall be no regrets. Votes: 0
Bessie ColemanIt is impossible to abolish either with a law or an axe the desires of men. Votes: 0
Walter LippmannIt is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor. Votes: 0
Seneca the YoungerFreedom is secured not by the fulfillment of one's desires, but by the removal of desire. Votes: 0
EpictetusHe who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist. Votes: 0
Anton ChekhovThe bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice. Votes: 0
John RawlsGod authors desires in your heart, then fulfills His Will by enabling you to realize those desires. Votes: 0
Edwin Louis ColeGod desires to use you to the best of your capacity, to the best of your ability. Votes: 0
Sunday AdelajaDo not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger. Votes: 0
Abu BakrWithout desires and dreams, your thoughts do not matter and you can think whatever you want to. Votes: 0
Stephen RichardsTo allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God's. Votes: 0
Dallas WillardPsalm 37:44 Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Votes: 0
LaNina KingThere are desires that we all want to achieve, but remember respect is most greatest to receive. Votes: 0
Big Daddy KaneHe who desires anything but God deceives himself, and he who loves anything but God errs miserably. Votes: 0
Philip NeriOur desires are the way that the healing life force comes through us and replenishes our bodies. Votes: 0
Christiane NorthrupEach ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheSpring is come home with her world-wandering feet, And all things are made young with your desires. Votes: 0
Francis ThompsonWealth and wisdom are seldom combined, for the person who achieves one no longer desires the other. Votes: 0
Robert BreaultCharacters are story. And any great plot or subplot is driven by the characters' wants and desires. Votes: 0
Robert Gregory BrowneMy films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way. Votes: 0
Roman PolanskiI am grateful to realize that my desires do not entitle me to add to another's suffering. Votes: 0
Zoe WeilThe life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires. Votes: 0
AristotleI have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world's muteness. Votes: 0
Vladimir NabokovWhen life follows the course of our desires, it is easy to be swept along without thought. Votes: 0
Elizabeth BlackwellHe put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart, he put other different desires. Votes: 0
Sitting BullFor the first time, the object of what I want is more important than fulfilling my desires. Votes: 0
Abbi GlinesIn God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give. Votes: 0
C. S. LewisI have always believed that somehow the less we reveal the more the other desires to see. Votes: 0
Annette MessagerGod's Word must be the guide of your desires and the ground of your expectations in prayer. Votes: 0
Matthew HenryI live by the spirit so I don't gratify all them old sinful desires that never satisfy. Votes: 0
lecraeA goal or cause in life, will help you come out of your hunger for insatiable desires. Votes: 0
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarNegative desires can cause no evil if you do not allow yourself to be seduced by them. Votes: 0
Paulo CoelhoI love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold Votes: 0
Mahmoud DarwishNo nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils. Votes: 0
Elihu RootLimited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens. Votes: 0
Alphonse de LamartinePeople seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable. Votes: 0
Oliver GoldsmithThat man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires. Votes: 0
Jean-Jacques RousseauCoeur qui soupire n'a pas ce qu'il desire. The heart that sighs does not have what it desires. Votes: 0
Sarah StrohmeyerIf thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires. Votes: 0
EpicurusMusic is the career Im lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions. Votes: 0
Layne StaleyThe person with the most flexibility has the best chance of achieving the outcome he or she desires Votes: 0
Tony JearyWhat your heart desires is not too good to be true. It is good enough to be true. Votes: 0
Alan CohenPrayer is the only adequate way to multiply our efforts fast enough to reap the harvest God desires. Votes: 0
Wesley L DuewelWhen you are in alignment with the desires of your heart, things have a way of working out. Votes: 0
Iyanla VanzantI do not believe that the desires of young boys cause catastrophic events. The actions of humans do. Votes: 0
Melina MarchettaWeak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat. Votes: 0
Napoleon HillYou can learn not to want what you want, to recognize desires but not be controlled by them. Votes: 0
Henepola GunaratanaChrist bounds and terminates the vast desires of the soul; He is the very Sabbath of the soul. Votes: 0
John FlavelShe was now drowning in that pool of desires without having any idea about the depth of it. Votes: 0
Viraj J. MahajanOur desires teach us who we are and who we want to become. Our desires shape our stories. Votes: 0
Christina BaldwinWhen all your desires are distilled; You will cast just two votes: To love more, And be happy. Votes: 0
HafezGod so much desires to use you that he isn't thinking of using you just anyhow or somehow. Votes: 0
Sunday AdelajaHow can I use these [romantic] desires to love him, to serve him as a brother in Christ... Votes: 0
Chris DamianMusic is the career I'm lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions. Votes: 0
Layne StaleyA sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it. Votes: 0
Oscar WildeHow can I use these [romantic] desires to love him, to serve him as a brother in Christ Votes: 0
Chris DamianGod desires to reveal to us that His capacity to forgive is bigger than our capacity to sin. Votes: 0
Aiden Wilson TozerGod desires that we develop spiritual muscle so we are strong enough to be His kind of wife. Votes: 0
Elizabeth GeorgeWe must know the measure of a man's desires before we can sound the depth of his regrets. Votes: 0
Pearl Mary Teresa CraigieKeep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader. Votes: 0
Tyler CowenNature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world. Votes: 0
Leonardo da Vinci90% of what we do daily is not what we think, it's just driven by our desires and not potentials. Votes: 0
Auliq Icei'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires Votes: 0
F. Scott FitzgeraldPeace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals. Votes: 0
Oswald SpenglerThe power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires. Votes: 0
MichelangeloLet him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God's debtor. Votes: 0
Saint AugustineMen are more ready to offend one who desires to be beloved than one who wishes to be feared. Votes: 0
Niccolo MachiavelliThe magistrate is the servant not of his own desires, not even of the people, but of his God Votes: 0
John Quincy AdamsAs long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is. Votes: 0
Ram DassLife is a drama of love, hopes, dreams, desires, and fears. To enjoy it, be bold to overcome fear. Votes: 0
Debasish MridhaIt is to be doubted whether he will ever find the way to heaven who desires to go thither alone. Votes: 0
Owen FelthamThe evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much. Votes: 0
John CalvinIt is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion. Votes: 0
Rebecca WestLet all our employment be to know God: the more one knows Him, the more one desires to know Him. Votes: 0
Brother LawrenceIf you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires. Votes: 0
EpicurusDeep down, we remain human, very human and have all the desires to love and be loved by one person. Votes: 0
Basil HumeWe are dwellers in a divine universe where no desires are in vain - if only they be large enough. Votes: 0
George MacDonaldNo human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night all. Votes: 0
Jose SaramagoTo me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it. Votes: 0
Noah TaylorWhen we have the Holy Spirit we have all that is needed to be all that God desires us to be. Votes: 0
Aiden Wilson TozerThe fact is that man has no longing for any other nature but desires only to be perfect in his own. Votes: 0
Nicholas of CusaIf you fear God, always put Him first, and seek His will, He will give you the desires of your heart Votes: 0
Deborah N. KabwangA rational man is guided by his thinking - by a process of Reason - not by his feelings and desires. Votes: 0
Ayn RandBut I want first of all- in fact, as an end to these other desires- to be at peace with myself. Votes: 0
Anne Morrow LindberghThe problem is the way we let our desires stand in the way of our enjoyment of what we already have. Votes: 0
Brad WarnerWhen I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires. Votes: 0
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