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Desirability Quotes (page 14)

E. B. White quote: "I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the..."
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. E. B. White
You tell me there is no fighting or hatred or desire in the Town. That is a beautiful dream, and I do want your happiness. But the absence of fighting or hatred or desire also means the opposites do not exist either. No joy, no communion, no love. Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without despair or loss, there is no hope. Haruki Murakami
Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring, as far as it can, to continue to move. Such a stone, being conscious merely of its own endeavor and not at all indifferent, would believe itself to be completely free, and would think that it continued in motion solely because of its own wish. This is that human freedom, which all boast that they possess, and which consists solely in the fact, that men are... Baruch Spinoza
John C. Maxwell quote: "Most People have a desire to look for the exception instead of..."
Most People have a desire to look for the exception instead of the desire to become exceptional. John C. Maxwell
Sigmund Freud quote: "Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire..."
Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love Sigmund Freud
George Muller quote: "The less we read the Word of God, the less we desire to read..."
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. George Muller
Michel de Montaigne quote: "There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge."
There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge. Michel de Montaigne
Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished. Wilson Mizner
All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain. John Stuart Mill
Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman. Mencius
I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now. Peter McWilliams
Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength. Aldous Huxley
Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired. Martha Graham
William Godwin quote: "Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but..."
Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity. William Godwin
Robert Frost quote: "Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. Robert Frost

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