Quotes about Desire
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
— Samuel Johnson
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
— Robert Frost
The love of money is the root of all evil." The lack of money is the root of all evil.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Wealth I ask not, hope nor love,Nor a friend to know me;All I ask, the heaven aboveAnd the road below me.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
— Lee Strobel
There is within you a yearning for the divine that nothing else can satisfy.
— Leonard Sweet
You couldn't have it if you DID want it.
— Lewis Carroll
Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.
— Samuel Johnson
Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and also that which it fears.
— James Allen
You are made in the image of what you desire.
— Thomas Merton
A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.
— Thomas Merton