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 BonhoefferThe price of love is only love, ... one must love if one desires to be loved. Votes: 1
Honore d'UrfeOur 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
EpictetusLife is a game, you live so you play. Follow your dreams and win what your happy heart desires. Votes: 1
Roel van SleeuwenDemocratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheSuccess is the byproduct of desires, purpose-oriented actions, and persistence. Votes: 0
Debasish MridhaWhile 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 DixonQuick gratification of desires, often lead to low stratifications in life Votes: 0
Constance Chuks FridayHope 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 NiebuhrEverything humanity have achieved is achieved by dreams, desires, and actions. Votes: 0
Debasish MridhaI've always assumed there's a dark river flowing beneath my fans' desires. Votes: 0
Steven MorrisseyAnyone who wishes to destroy humanity's past, desires to destroy its future. Votes: 0
Mario J. LuceroSin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification. Votes: 0
Joseph CampbellBe an earnest student of yourself. Study your leading desires and tendencies. Votes: 0
Grenville KleiserLeadership is the bridge of integrity that connects goals, desires, and actions. Votes: 0
Steve MaraboliAlmost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal. Votes: 0
Victor HugoUse your unconscious mind to read other people's intents, emotions, and desires. Votes: 0
Nick MorganPreceding accomplishment must be desire. Thy desires must be strong and definite. Votes: 0
George S. ClasonIn matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires. Votes: 0
James HuttonHaters possess misplaced admiration; your life reflects unmanifest desires of their heart. Votes: 0
LaShaun Middlebrooks CollierKama 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. BorysenkoEach 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 RousseauSmall, 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 SigourneyGod 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 PokhrelFairyland is the loveliest word because it means everything the human heart desires. Votes: 0
Lucy Maud MontgomerySome form of self-discipline is necessary to transmute material desires into spiritual aspirations. Votes: 0
Paramahansa YoganandaWe 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-JawziyyaThe cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires. Votes: 0
Jean-Luc GodardDon't limit your imagination,the best part of your life,is living your desires. Votes: 0
Ebelsain VillegasLet the future remain uncertain, for that is the canvas to receive our desires. Votes: 0
Brian HerbertHoliness gives us new desires and brings old desires into line with one another. Votes: 0
Timothy KellerMen 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 BlakeIt was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them. Votes: 0
Erich Maria RemarqueMan tends always to satisfy his needs and desires with the least possible exertion. Votes: 0
Albert J. NockPolitics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest. Votes: 0
Thomas SowellA man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires. Votes: 0
Bertrand RussellFreedom is within oneself. But to get beyond the thoughts and desires requires power. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellIf one desires to receive one must first give. This is called profound understanding. Votes: 0
LaoziUncovering your real desires can be terrifying. It can also set you spectacularly free. Votes: 0
Mark EpsteinThe affirmation of one's essential being in spite of desires and anxieties creates joy. Votes: 0
Paul TillichHappiness is there when your dreams, hopes, and desires are compatible with your actions. Votes: 0
Debasish MridhaThe one who has no control over his desires has no control over his mind. Votes: 0
Ali ibn Abi Talibwho desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth. Votes: 0
Paul the ApostleDelight yourself in the Lord.He shall give you all the desires of your heart. Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty AkitaEvery man, it seems, interprets the world in the light of his habits and desires Votes: 0
Richard WrightA "Bay Area Bisexual" told me I didn't quite coincide with either of her desires. Votes: 0
Woody AllenIn the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond... Votes: 0
Khalil GibranIt is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized. Votes: 0
AristotleSometimes 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 ShakespeareOur 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 FitzgeraldEscape 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 AdelajaI can wade through contrast and give birth to desires without yielding my Well Being. Votes: 0
Esther HicksNot one amongst the doctors, as you'll see For his own friends desires to prescribe. Votes: 0
PhilemonYou always have to measure your desires and goals against your ego and your humility. Votes: 0
Sebastian CopelandGod 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 SantorumThose who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained. Votes: 0
William BlakeThus 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 BlakeNo 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 ShawYour 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 DostoevskyTo the soul's desires The body listens What the flesh requires Keeps the heart imprisoned Votes: 0
Frank HerbertThink and imagine the possibilities of your heart's desires. You will attract them to you. Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty AkitaSpeak it into existence and your words, through your desires, will bring it into fruition. Votes: 0
Sovereign VoiceElusive dreams and vague desires fanned to fiery needs by deadly deeds of falling empires. Votes: 0
Joni MitchellNot beauty, no, but virtue rais'd my fires, whose sacred flame did cherish chaste desires. Votes: 0
William Alexander, 1st Earl of StirlingMy intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. Votes: 0
Mason CooleyWhen your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve. Votes: 0
Napoleon HillA reality shaped around your own desires -- there is something sociopathic in that ambition. Votes: 0
Zadie SmithWhen your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve. Votes: 0
Napoleon HillMost women have small waists the world throughout, But their desires are thousand miles about. Votes: 0
Cyril TourneurLove is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing. Votes: 0
Madeleine de ScuderyLiterature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy. Votes: 0
Antonio TabucchiYou can be sure that your deepest desires reveal important truths about your spiritual condition. Votes: 0
Tullian TchividjianBlessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires. Votes: 0
Saint AugustineTo me, Shakespeare uses the supernatural elements to reveal his character's inner desires and fears. Votes: 0
John FosterGeometry alone is not enough to portray human desires, expressions, aspirations, joys. We need more. Votes: 0
Akira YoshizawaIt is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor. Votes: 0
Seneca the YoungerIt is impossible to abolish either with a law or an axe the desires of men. Votes: 0
Walter LippmannIf I can create the minimum of my plans and desires there shall be no regrets. Votes: 0
Bessie ColemanMy Nafs screams out for what it desires. But my will to be free screams louder. Votes: 0
Yasmin MogahedAs our means increase, so do our desires;and we ever stand midway between the two. Votes: 0
Jerome K. JeromeEither we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires. Votes: 0
Os GuinnessEvery room has a mood or personality...and it is this that one desires to develop. Votes: 0
Eleanor BrownOur desires, be they spiritual or temporal, should be rooted in a love of the Lord. Votes: 0
Ezra Taft BensonOur duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers. Votes: 0
Henri Frederic AmielOur vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheThe bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice. Votes: 0
John RawlsTo have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship. Votes: 0
SallustThe future is needed as a space to project your desires. To project, future is needed. Votes: 0
RajneeshWars 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
EpictetusHe who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist. Votes: 0
Anton ChekhovFreedom is secured not by the fulfillment of one's desires, but by the removal of desire. Votes: 0
EpictetusA muse can be a mirror: a reflection of the artist's desires, anxieties, dreams and needs. Votes: 0
Vince AlettiContrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch. Votes: 0
Carlos Ruiz ZafonFreedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires. Votes: 0
Bertrand RussellThe child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced. Votes: 0
John RuskinThe 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 JohnsonA 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
PlatoWhen ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou has passed through. Votes: 0
Ieyasu TokugawaWe're all stuck between the realm of our desires, their possibilities and the realities of life. Votes: 0
Huseyn RazaWe were sexual targets, marked as eternal sluts for exploring the desires only acceptable in men. Votes: 0
Maggie YoungAnd Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires. Votes: 0
William BlakeNew-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety. Votes: 0
MoliereAs all-consuming as a young girl's fancies were ... a woman's desires could be twice as dangerous. Votes: 0
Teresa MedeirosBring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. Votes: 0
AristotleMiracles are everywhere to be found When I surrender my infinite desires To my immortal aspirations. Votes: 0
Sri ChinmoyPhilosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it. Votes: 0
Victor HugoGod desires to use you to the best of your capacity, to the best of your ability. Votes: 0
Sunday AdelajaEach ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTo allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God's. Votes: 0
Dallas WillardNegative desires can cause no evil if you do not allow yourself to be seduced by them. Votes: 0
Paulo CoelhoA goal or cause in life, will help you come out of your hunger for insatiable desires. Votes: 0
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarI live by the spirit so I don't gratify all them old sinful desires that never satisfy. Votes: 0
lecraeI love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold Votes: 0
Mahmoud DarwishI have always believed that somehow the less we reveal the more the other desires to see. Votes: 0
Annette MessagerI am grateful to realize that my desires do not entitle me to add to another's suffering. Votes: 0
Zoe WeilWhen 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. LewisGod's Word must be the guide of your desires and the ground of your expectations in prayer. Votes: 0
Matthew HenryI have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world's muteness. Votes: 0
Vladimir NabokovLimited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens. Votes: 0
Alphonse de LamartineNo nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils. Votes: 0
Elihu RootThe life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires. Votes: 0
AristotleDo 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 RichardsPsalm 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 KaneOur desires are the way that the healing life force comes through us and replenishes our bodies. Votes: 0
Christiane NorthrupMy films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way. Votes: 0
Roman PolanskiGod authors desires in your heart, then fulfills His Will by enabling you to realize those desires. Votes: 0
Edwin Louis ColeCharacters are story. And any great plot or subplot is driven by the characters' wants and desires. Votes: 0
Robert Gregory BrowneSpring is come home with her world-wandering feet, And all things are made young with your desires. Votes: 0
Francis ThompsonHe who desires anything but God deceives himself, and he who loves anything but God errs miserably. Votes: 0
Philip NeriWealth and wisdom are seldom combined, for the person who achieves one no longer desires the other. Votes: 0
Robert BreaultWhat your heart desires is not too good to be true. It is good enough to be true. Votes: 0
Alan CohenIf thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires. Votes: 0
EpicurusHow can I use these [romantic] desires to love him, to serve him as a brother in Christ Votes: 0
Chris DamianThat man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires. Votes: 0
Jean-Jacques RousseauOur desires teach us who we are and who we want to become. Our desires shape our stories. Votes: 0
Christina BaldwinWe must know the measure of a man's desires before we can sound the depth of his regrets. Votes: 0
Pearl Mary Teresa CraigieHow can I use these [romantic] desires to love him, to serve him as a brother in Christ... Votes: 0
Chris DamianGod so much desires to use you that he isn't thinking of using you just anyhow or somehow. Votes: 0
Sunday AdelajaShe was now drowning in that pool of desires without having any idea about the depth of it. Votes: 0
Viraj J. MahajanWhen you are in alignment with the desires of your heart, things have a way of working out. Votes: 0
Iyanla VanzantMusic is the career Im lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions. Votes: 0
Layne StaleyMusic is the career I'm lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions. Votes: 0
Layne StaleyYou can learn not to want what you want, to recognize desires but not be controlled by them. Votes: 0
Henepola GunaratanaGod desires that we develop spiritual muscle so we are strong enough to be His kind of wife. Votes: 0
Elizabeth GeorgeGod desires to reveal to us that His capacity to forgive is bigger than our capacity to sin. Votes: 0
Aiden Wilson TozerWhen all your desires are distilled; You will cast just two votes: To love more, And be happy. Votes: 0
HafezChrist bounds and terminates the vast desires of the soul; He is the very Sabbath of the soul. Votes: 0
John FlavelWeak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat. Votes: 0
Napoleon HillCoeur qui soupire n'a pas ce qu'il desire. The heart that sighs does not have what it desires. Votes: 0
Sarah StrohmeyerKeep 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 VinciA sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it. Votes: 0
Oscar WildePeople seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable. Votes: 0
Oliver GoldsmithThe person with the most flexibility has the best chance of achieving the outcome he or she desires Votes: 0
Tony JearyPrayer is the only adequate way to multiply our efforts fast enough to reap the harvest God desires. Votes: 0
Wesley L DuewelI do not believe that the desires of young boys cause catastrophic events. The actions of humans do. Votes: 0
Melina MarchettaAs long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is. Votes: 0
Ram Dassi'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires Votes: 0
F. Scott FitzgeraldThe magistrate is the servant not of his own desires, not even of the people, but of his God Votes: 0
John Quincy AdamsMen are more ready to offend one who desires to be beloved than one who wishes to be feared. Votes: 0
Niccolo MachiavelliThe power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires. Votes: 0
MichelangeloPeace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals. Votes: 0
Oswald Spengler90% of what we do daily is not what we think, it's just driven by our desires and not potentials. Votes: 0
Auliq IceLife is a drama of love, hopes, dreams, desires, and fears. To enjoy it, be bold to overcome fear. Votes: 0
Debasish MridhaLet him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God's debtor. Votes: 0
Saint AugustineThe evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much. Votes: 0
John CalvinIt is to be doubted whether he will ever find the way to heaven who desires to go thither alone. Votes: 0
Owen FelthamLet all our employment be to know God: the more one knows Him, the more one desires to know Him. Votes: 0
Brother LawrenceWe 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 SaramagoIt is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion. Votes: 0
Rebecca WestDeep down, we remain human, very human and have all the desires to love and be loved by one person. Votes: 0
Basil HumeIf you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires. Votes: 0
EpicurusWhen we have the Holy Spirit we have all that is needed to be all that God desires us to be. Votes: 0
Aiden Wilson TozerBut I want first of all- in fact, as an end to these other desires- to be at peace with myself. Votes: 0
Anne Morrow LindberghWhen I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires. Votes: 0
Jeanette WintersonTo me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it. Votes: 0
Noah TaylorThe 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 RandThe problem is the way we let our desires stand in the way of our enjoyment of what we already have. Votes: 0
Brad WarnerI stopped worrying about being desired a long time ago. Votes: 2 Daniel Craig
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. Votes: 4 Azar Nafisi
The less we read the Word of God, the less we desire to read it, and the less we pray, the less we desire to pray. Votes: 2 George Muller
Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards. Votes: 1 Giacomo Leopardi
Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires. Votes: 1 Bertrand Russell
The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me. Votes: 2 Orson Pratt
Whatever it is your heart desires, please go for it, it's yours to have. Votes: 2 Gloria Estefan
Some people give themselves over to their most evil desires, and those people becomes evil. But in general, it's reductive to think of evil as something foreign and separate from the rest of us. Evil is part of everyone. We all have the capacity to commit evil acts. Votes: 1 Bill James
To manifest your hearts desires you must be what your heart desires. Votes: 4 Joy Page
I love being physical, but I don't have any desire to prove myself. Votes: 1 Anna Torv
I didn't have any desire to be an actor until right before I did it. Votes: 2 Jamie Sives
To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires. Votes: 4 James Russell Lowell