Desire Quotes - Page 40

• Be not in the desire of thine own ease.

  Saadi

  Selfishness, Ease

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• Amid ancient lore the Word of God stands unique and pre-eminent. Wonderful in its construction, admirable in its adaptation, it contains truths that a child may comprehend, and mysteries into which angels desire to look.

  Frances Harper

  Bible, Children, Angel

  Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Frances Smith Foster (1990). “A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader”, p.98, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• My praying friend, continue to make known your desires to God in all things. ... Let Him decide whether you are to receive what you ask for or not.

  Ole Hallesby

  Praying, All Things, Asks

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• We should not be afraid, when praying to God, to give expression to a definite desire, even though we are in doubt at the time we are praying whether it is really the right thing to pray for or not.

  Ole Hallesby

  Expression, Giving, Doubt

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• The wife who submits to sexual intercourse against her wishes or desires, virtually commits suicide; while the husband who compels it, commits murder.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Suicide, Husband, Wife

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• Anything that brings you to a decision will be answered. The stronger the decision is, the faster it's answered. So if you're in a situation where it seems life or death, and the desire is strong, it is answered now, because it must be answered now to be answered at all.

  Esther Hicks

  Strong, Decision, Faster

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• A decision is the focusing of the Energy of desire, and the decision point happens when the desire is powerful enough.

  Esther Hicks

  Powerful, Decision, Energy

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• You're not ever going to get it done. Every time you evaluate contrast and conclude and then line up your Energy and allow it into your experience... at the same time you are achieving the result that you intended, you also achieve a new perspective from which to intend. You can't stand still. In every moment, there is a whole new set of stuff... new ideas, new desires being born.

  Esther Hicks

  Ideas, Perspective, Lines

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• A very good career choice would be to gravitate toward those activities and to embrace those desires that harmonize with your core intentions, which are freedom and growth - and joy. Make a 'career' of living a happy life rather than trying to find work that will produce enough income that you can do things with your money that will then make you happy. When feeling happy is of paramount importance to you - and what you do 'for a living' makes you happy - you have found the best of all combinations.

  Esther Hicks

  Happy Life, Careers, Choices

  Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks (2010). “Money, and the Law of Attraction: Learning to Attract Wealth, Health, and Happiness: Easyread Large Edition”, p.262, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Love without desire is a delusion: it does not exist in nature.

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  Doe, Delusion

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• I desire the good-will of all, whether hitherto my friends or not.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  My Friends, Good Will

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• I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.

  Seneca the Younger

  Done, Care, May

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• If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.

  Seneca the Younger

  Judging, Sin, Ifs

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• Lack of desire is the greatest riches.

  Seneca the Younger

  Riches, Wealth

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• Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery.

  Seneca the Younger

  Work Out, Misery, Said

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• No one can have all he desires.

  Seneca the Younger

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• Reducing our desires and eliminating false neediness is the answer to resolving the nagging inner discomfort that we feel.

  Angelina Love

  Angel, Answers, Nagging

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• If we release our fixed ideas about how the world should appear, desires can simply fall away. Our attention is paid to releasing, not wanting to release.

  Angelina Love

  Fall, Angel, Ideas

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• To desire to be what one can be is purpose in life. There are no exterior forces. There are only interior forces. Who squanders talent praises death.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Ambition, Purpose, Talent

  Cynthia Ozick (2006). “The Din in the Head”, p.159, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Beauty ensnares hearts, captures minds, and stirs up emotional wildfires. From Plato to pinups, images of human beauty have catered to a limitless desire to see and imagine an ideal human form.

  Nancy Etcoff

  Beauty, Plato, Heart

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• When I look back on the years of excessive self-doubt, I wonder how I was able to make my paintings. In part, I managed to paint because I had a desire, as strong as the desire for food and sex, to push through, to make an image that signified.

  Miriam Schapiro

  Art, Strong, Sex

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• ... we condone the most bitter and vindictive intolerance from a desire to appear tolerant, and run to prove that badness is not as bad as it seems, by pointing out that goodness is not so good as it looks.

  J. E. Buckrose

  Running, Looks, Bitter

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• I was not yet three years old when my mother determined to send one of my elder sisters to learn to read at a school for girls we call the Amigas. Affection, and mischief, caused me to follow her, and when I observed how she was being taught her lessons I was so inflamed with the desire to know how to read, that deceiving - for so I knew it to be - the mistress, I told her that my mother had meant for me to have lessons too. ... I learned so quickly that before my mother knew of it I could already read.

  Juana Inés de la Cruz

  Girl, Mother, School

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• Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.

  Horace

  Courage, Ambition, Loss

  Horace (1903). “Horace for English Readers: Being a Translation of the Poems of Quintus Horatius Flaccus Into English Prose”

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• Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals.

  Christopher Isham

  Love, Attitude, Healing

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