desire

We consider it innocent to desire, and heinous that the other person should do so.

Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the obsessive phenomenon of all amorous sentiment.

You are not in Disneyland,_ he said. __he little people you see running around over here are not Mouseketeers. Some of them are friendly, and some of them have a strong desire to kill you. If you remember that, and manage to kill them before they kill you, then you have a good chance of getting through your year of service here.

It had been so long since she had felt the touch of a man. Too long. She had almost forgotten that ripe, heavy throb of attraction and desire that could instantly drug her body and mind more thoroughly than any hard liquor.

The starting place for your greatness is desire. The desire to succeed, to serve others, to keep on going no matter what; the desire to...

My God, Sweetness beyond words, make bitter all the carnal comfort that draws me from love of the eternal and lures me to its evil self by the sight of some delightful good in the present. Let it not overcome me, my God. Let not flesh and blood conquer me. Let not the world and its brief glory deceive me, nor the devil trip me by his craftiness. Give me courage to resist, patience to endure, and constancy to persevere. Give me the soothing unction of Your spirit rather than all the consolations of the world, and in place of carnal love, infuse into me the love of Your name.

If you want to be mine;be of the divine,be of yourself.

All beings desire pleasure, a surcease of need or want, and there is no shame in that.

Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar. Man the sum of his climatic experiences Father said. Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire.

All employees have an innate desire to contribute to something bigger than themselves.

If we blind them to The Adversary __ecrease their desire for The Desire_ while at the same time encourage them to do anything else they desire with increasing __reedom of choice,_ then eventually we snuff out desire while leaving demand in tact.

Nothing won't change, until the choice is placed first. And until when choice is given a chance.

God's greatest desire is for you to come to Him.

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality. Though different traditions may emphasize different aspects, it is only the interplay of these antithetic forces and the struggle for their synthesis that constitute the life, usefulness, and supreme value of mathematical science.

I want to be loved so badly, it verges on mild insanity.

Do you want me because you love me or because I provide you normality drag?

Mum, mum,He that keeps nor crust nor crumb,Weary of all, shall want some.

The paradox is that without desire, we cannot be successful. When we are striving for desires that will give us what we want and enrich the lives of the people around us directly or indirectly, the Universe works with us to manifest it.