#desire

Always having what we want may not be the best good fortune Health seems sweetest after sickness, food in hunger, goodness in the wake of evil, and at the end of daylong labor sleep. ↗

— Heraclitus

#dreams #fulfillment #goals #unfulfillment #dreams

But that was all bravado. Already - how had it come about so quickly - desire had begotten need. A few whispered words (perhaps he didn't mean them) and I was ready to follow. It was worse to think of staying behind, to grind one day upon another. Nothing to hold me here. None to regret my leaving, save Az. ↗

— Sarah Micklem

#leaving #love #running-away #love

God loves his creatures, and he loves each one the more, the more it shares his own goodness, which is the first and primary object of his love. Therefore he wants the desires of his rational creatures to be fulfilled because they share most perfectly of all creatures the goodness of god. And his will is an accomplisher of things because he is the cause of things by his will. So it belongs to the divine goodness to fulfill the desires of rational creatures which are put to him in prayer. ↗

— St. Thomas Aquinas

#passion #prayer #love

The supernova sun would be cooler than the fire lighting our desire. ↗

— Missy Lyons

#heat #hot #love #lust #sun

It is true that the Chinese are not so religious as the Hindus, or even as the Japanese; and they are certainly not so religious as the Christian missionaries desire them to be. ↗

— Hu Shih

#chinese #christian #desire #even #hindus

Too often the desire for peace has been expressed by women while the stewardship of the mechanisms which are used to attempt to secure peace in the short and medium term are dominated by male decision-making structures and informal arrangements. This must change. ↗

— Jenny Shipley

#attempt #been #change #decision-making #desire

Though we may have desires or bold goals, for whatever reason, most of us don't think we can achieve something beyond what we're qualified to achieve. Why, I ask, do we let reality interfere with our dreams? ↗

— Simon Sinek

#ask #beyond #bold #desires #dreams

Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment. ↗

— Marsha Sinetar

#again #burning #burning desire #desire #disappointment

I still party all the time and hang out with everyone who drinks, but I just don't personally, and don't really have the desire to get blitzed drunk any more. ↗

— Slash

#desire #drinks #drunk #everyone #get

Music is the career I'm lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions. ↗

— Layne Staley

#desires #enough #get #i #lucky