You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.
Desire is the absurdity that holds open the infinity of possibility.
My desires are simply I love to teach, I love to be in uniform, I love to throw batting practice, I love to be with the kids.
I can't sleep, I can't eat, I can't do anything but think about him. At night I dream of him, all day I wait to see him, and when I do see him my heart turns over and I think I will faint with desire.
It's true that I've never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.
I have never killed anybody, it is true, but it is because I lacked the courage or the time, not because I lacked the desire
Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.
How do you resign yourself to something that will never be? You stop wanting just that thing. You go numb. Or you kill the agent of desire.
When our deepest desire is not the things of God, or a favor from God, but God Himself, we cross a threshold.
The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are.
Your desire for perfection is the cause of anger. Leave room for imperfection. Perfection in action is almost impossible.
The desire for self-improvement is vital. There is no point in pushing children; they need to be the ones who want to learn new skills.
The various processes of belief acquisition which are native to a species include ones which may allow for the reliable pick-up of information, which, in turn, allows individual members of the species to successfully negotiate their environment and satisfy their various desires.
I want to encourage you by letting you know that there's hope for you and your situation whatever you are dealing with. God is intimately involved with every detail of your future and His desire is for you to be an overcomer.
Since the tapestry of all time has already been woven, everything I could ever want to happen in my life already exists in that infinite, nonphysical plane. My only task is to expand my earthly self enough to let it into this realm. So if there's something I desire, the idea isn't to go out and get it, but to expand my own consciousness to allow universal energy to bring it into my reality here.
Eventually economic growth reaches the point at which the accumulation of wealth in the families of achievers becomes so significant that the hatred and envy of success become stronger than the desire for continued economic growth, and a period dominated by resentment begins.
Throughout the world today there is a gowing awareness of the failings of the Western model of development and a corresponding desire to look for more human-scale, ecological ways of living.
'A reality shaped around your own desires' - there is something sociopathic in that ambition.
When two agree in their desire, One sparke will set them both on fire.
Wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they are obtained in the right way they may not be possessed.
