I don't need marriage. I don't need anyone to take care of all my needs and desires. I can take care of them myself now.
Chaos comes before all principles of order & entropy, it's neither a god nor a maggot, its idiotic desires encompass & define every possible choreography, all meaningless aethers & phlogistons: its masks are crystallizations of its own facelessness, like clouds.
How many of us would be able to overcome our desires and resist the temptation of sin? How many of us even lower our gaze when we look upon something that we are not supposed to? The real prisoner is the one whose heart has been kept away from remembering his Lord, and the real captive is the one who has been captivated by his whims and desires.
Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.
It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.
When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires.
One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.
It is to be presumed, that a man of common sense, who does not desire to please, desires nothing at all; since he must know that he cannot obtain anything without it.
Your Heavenly Father knows that you will make mistakes. He knows that you will stumble-perhaps many times. This saddens Him, but He loves you. He does not wish to break your spirit. On the contrary, He desires that you rise up and become the person you were designed to be.
Negative desires can cause no evil if you do not allow yourself to be seduced by them.
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
Desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer. Lack of desire is poverty.
When life follows the course of our desires, it is easy to be swept along without thought.
well, young man," the judge began, what it biols down to this if the court so desires and if you belive that your home setting is undesirable. . . you may return and desire with your mother at your home residents
A small heart hath small desires.
Christmas has been a season of mixed interests and meanings, but the very foundation, of course, is its religious significance. No matter what other personal desires or crises we have faced, I've never forgotten that this is the time to celebrate the birth of the Baby Jesus, and the impact of this event on the history of the world.
The desires of man increase with his acquisitions.
To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortune, and not your fortune by your desires.