Desire Love Quotes

• The starting point of all achievement is desire.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity”, p.142, Penguin

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• Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Iphigenia in Tauris". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, April 6, 1779.

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• Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Funny, Life

  "A Swinger of Birches: A Portrait of Robert Frost". Book by Sydney Cox, 1957.

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• Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.103, Wordsworth Editions

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• Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.

  James A. Baldwin

  Believe, Wish, Events

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• Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.

  Khalil Gibran

  Thank You, Gratitude, Yoga

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Life, Best Friend

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• Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

  W. Clement Stone

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude". Book by W. Clement Stone and Napoleon Hill (Chapter 2: You Can Change Your World), 1960.

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• Love is like a friendship caught on fire.

  Bruce Lee

  Love, Romantic, Soulmate

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.96, Tuttle Publishing

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• Love allows your beloved the freedom to be unlike you. Attachment asks for conformity to your needs and desires. Love imposes no demands. Attachment expresses an overwhelming demand - "Make me feel whole." Love expands beyond the limits of two people. Attachment tries to exclude everything but two people.

  Deepak Chopra

  Marriage, Soulmate, Attachment

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• Love, which is lust, is the Lamp in the Tomb.
  Love, which is lust, is the Call from the Gloom.
  Love, which is lust, is the Main of Desire.
  Love, which is lust, is the Centric Fire.
  So man and woman will keep their trust,
  Till the very Springs of the Sea run dust.
  Yea, each with the other will lose and win,
  Till the very Sides of the Grave fall in.
  For the strife of Love's the abysmal strife,
  And the word of Love is the Word of Life.
  And they that go with the Word unsaid,
  Though they seem of the living, are damned and dead.

  William Ernest Henley

  Life, Running, Spring

  William Ernest Henley, Robert Louis Stevenson (1970). “The Works of W. E. Henley: Poems”

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• An emotion is a thought, yes, an idea, but it is also a sensation, an ache in your body. Desire, love, hate, fear, repulsion - you feel these things in your muscle and bones, not just in your mind.

  William Landay

  Hate, Ideas, Mind

  William Landay (2012). “Defending Jacob: A Novel”, p.209, Delacorte Press

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• In my experience, desire is desire, love is love. I have never fallen in love with a gender. I have fallen for individuals.

  David Levithan

  Love Is, Individual, Gender

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.89, Egmont UK

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• And if God choose I shall but love thee better after death.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Headstone, Gravestone, Love Poems

  Sonnets from the Portuguese no. 43 (1850)

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• The love that moves the sun and the other stars.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Life, Stars

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.48, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• According to Diotima, Love is not a god at all, but is rather a spirit that mediates between people and the objects of their desire. Love is neither wise nor beautiful, but is rather the desire for wisdom and beauty.

  Plato

  Beautiful, Wise, Love Is

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• To be loved to madness--such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.

  Thomas Hardy

  Loneliness, Long, Passionate

  Thomas Hardy (2015). “The Return of the Native”, p.68, Xist Publishing

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• Love isn't quite desire... Love is probably a little bit in The Sandman's domain. Love is partly a dream, it's partly to do with desire, and sometimes it's partly to do with death, as well. It's also very often something to do with delirium.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Love Is, Littles

  Source: www.naylor.net

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• In my experience, desire is desire, love is love.

  David Levithan

  Love Is, Desire

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.89, Egmont UK

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• Or perhaps it is some combination of spirit and desire, love and hope, some alchemy that we each possess and can put to use, if we first know where to look without flinching.

  Libba Bray

  Looks, Use, Firsts

  Libba Bray (2010). “Rebel Angels”, p.366, Simon and Schuster

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• Behind all art is an element of desire...Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, love of human beings is in some way behind all art — even the most angry, even the darkest, even the most grief-stricken, and even the most embittered art has that element somewhere behind it. Because how could you be so despairing, so embittered, if you had not had something you loved that you lost?

  Adrienne Rich

  Art, Grief, Love Life

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• Humans used to desire love, money, food, shelter, safety, peace and freedom more than anything else. The last 30 years have changed us. Now people want to have a good job, and they want their children to have a good job. This changes everything for world leaders. Everything they do - from waging war to building societies - will need to be carried out within the new context of the need for a good job.

  Jim Clifton

  Peace, Jobs, Children

  "The Coming Jobs War". Book by Jim Clifton, 2013.

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• One cannot completely get rid of the six passions: lust, anger, greed, and the like. Therefore one should direct them to God. If you must have desire and greed, then you should desire love of God and be greedy to attain Him.

  Ramakrishna

  Anger, Passion, Greed

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• I guess I think that sex and desire and humiliation are central to my experience of consciousness - to my experience of humanness - and I wanted to explore the ways that they circle around and approach and fail to add up to love, or the ways that those three terms - sex, desire, love - can in some lights seem synonymous and in others like elements entirely alien to one another.

  Garth Greenwell

  Sex, Thinking, Light

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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