Your desire is your prayer. Picture the fulfillment of your desire now and feel its reality and you will experience the joy of the answered. Dr. Joseph Murphy — Joseph Murphy
Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were. — W. H. Auden
We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us. — Francois Rabelais
Desire is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want. — Naval Ravikant
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate. — Socrates
Short Secret Desire Quotes
Desire and longing are the whips of God. — Anna Wickham
Desire is the difference between where you are now and where you want to be in the future. — James Clear
Desire is in men a hunger, in women only an appetite. — Mignon McLaughlin
The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man's slavery — Paramahansa Yogananda
The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul. — Carl Jung
There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable. — Mark Twain
To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves. — Federico Garcia Lorca
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. — Robert Frost
We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us. — Ovid
I desire the things that will destroy me in the end. — Sylvia Plath
Secret Desire Image Quotes
For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and, if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
Dear friend,
Your heart is a polished mirror. You must wipe it dean of the veil of dust that has gathered upon it, because it is destined to reflect the light of divine secrets. — Al-Ghazali
The secret of spiritual success is a hunger that persists…It is an awful condition to be satisfied with one’s spiritual attainments…God was and is looking for hungry, thirsty people. — Smith Wigglesworth
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people. — Dick Gregory
The secret is to believe in your dreams; in your potential that you can be like your star, keep searching, keep believing and don’t lose faith in yourself. — Neymar
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one. — Mark Twain
Last night
I begged the Wise One to tell me
the secret of the world.
Gently, gently, he whispered,
"Be quiet,
the secret cannot be spoken,
It is wrapped in silence." — Rumi
Secret Quotes
I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this. — Kevin Gates
If you don’t find a way to love a flawed person, secretly you’re teaching yourself that you are not lovable because of your flaws. — T. D. Jakes
If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration. — Nikola Tesla
Be kind to others, so that you may learn the secret art of being kind to yourself. — Paramahansa Yogananda
My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists. — Nikola Tesla
You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine. — John C. Maxwell
If you keep my secret, this strawberry is yours. — Tsugumi Ohba
The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant. — Maximilien Robespierre
Revival is a renewed conviction of sin and repentance, followed by an intense desire to live in obedience to God. It is giving up one's will to God in deep humility. — Charles Grandison Finney
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. — Muhammad Ali
Right now, and in every now-moment, you are either closing or opening. You are either stressfully waiting for something - more money, security, affection - or you are living from your deep heart, opening as the entire moment, and giving what you most deeply desire to give, without waiting. — David Deida
A desire to kneel down sometimes pulses through my body, or rather it is as if my body has been meant and made for the act of kneeling. Sometimes, in moments of deep gratitude, kneeling down becomes an overwhelming urge, head deeply bowed, hands before my face. — Etty Hillesum
The devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for. — Tucker Max
What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty? — Friedrich Nietzsche
As Freud has shown, blunders are not the merest chance. They are the result of suppressed desires and conflicts. They are ripples on the surface of life, produced by unsuspected springs. And these may be very deep - as deep as the soul itself. The blunder may amount to the opening of a destiny. — Joseph Campbell
Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison. — Mahatma Gandhi
As a pastor, I have a deep desire to lead people to God and encourage people to pray, read the Bible, and carry their faith into every part of their lives. — Adam Hamilton
Secret Love Quotes
Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty. — Archimedes
Seems to me, it aint the world that's so bad but what we're doin' to it. And all I'm saying is, see, what a wonderful world it would be if only we'd give it a chance. Love baby, love. That's the secret... — Louis Armstrong
I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,in secret, between the shadow and the soul. — Pablo Neruda
Those who don't believe in magic will never find it. — Roald Dahl
I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda. — Anne Lamott
Contemplation is nothing else but a secret, peaceful, and loving infusion of God, which, if admitted, will set the soul on fire with the Spirit of love. — John of the Cross
The secret to success: find something you love to do so much, you can’t wait for the sun to rise to do it all over again. — Chris Gardner
Fill your hearts with love and gratitude. Life gives us what we need and not necessarily what we want. It follows its own wisdom, which is often incomprehensible to our gross minds. We should learn to accept situations in life. This attitude of acceptance is the secret to happiness. — Mata Amritanandamayi
The secret of success is to find a need and fill it, to find a hurt and heal it, to find somebody with a problem and offer to help solve it. — Robert H. Schuller
Strong Desire Quotes
Doing little things with a strong desire to please God makes them really great. — Saint Francis de Sales
Educational success should be measured by how strong your desire is to keep learning. — Alfie Kohn
Ambition, as that passion is generally understood,- a strong desire to rise above others, to occupy the first place, - formed no part of Lafayette's character. In him the passion was nothing more than a constant and irresistible wish to do good. — Marquis de Lafayette
I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires and inclinations, until they are proved to be right, is the most important of all, not only in things of natural philosophy, but in every department of dally life. — Michael Faraday
When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve. — Napoleon Hill
But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking. — Mike Figgis
What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well. — John McEnroe
It should be observed that perfect love of God consists not in those delights, tears and sentiments of devotion that we generally seek, but in a strong determination and keen desire to please God in all things, and to promote His glory. — Teresa of Avila
It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. — C. S. Lewis
I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature. — Abraham Cowley
Personal Desire Quotes
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. — Eddie Robinson
Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree. — Friedrich Nietzsche
When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream. — Paulo Coelho
No person among us desires any other reward for performing a brave and worthy action, but the consciousness of having served his nation. — Joseph Brant
A person is truly a human if he or she learns, and teaches, and inspires others. It is difficult to regard as truly human someone who is ignorant and has no desire to learn. — Fethullah Gulen
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be. — Anna Louise Strong
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be. — Anna Louise Strong
We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. — Albert Einstein
Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself another, deeper, more interesting life than the one that actually surrounds him. — Constantin Stanislavski
Nothing is impossible to the person who backs DESIRE with enduring FAITH. — Napoleon Hill
Secret Thoughts Quotes
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. — Marcus Aurelius
The secret of perfect health lies in keeping the mind always cheerful - never worried, never hurried, never borne down by any fear, thought or anxiety. — Sathya Sai Baba
Clean living keeps me in shape. Righteous thoughts are my secret. And New Orleans home cooking. — Fats Domino
The predominant thought or the mental attitude is the magnet, and the law is that like attracts like, consequently, the mental attitude will invariably attract such conditions as correspond to its nature. — Charles F. Haanel
The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame. — Thomas Hobbes
Every thought of yours is a real thing - a force. — Prentice Mulford
I thought the Secret Service would protect me from the press, but they were at my house to protect me from assassins with guns, not with assassins with pencils. — Michael Reagan
Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution. — Chanakya
Each of us must live off the fruit of his thoughts in the future, because what you think today and tomorrow, next month and next year, you will mold your life and determine your future. You are guided by your mind. — Earl Nightingale
Desire Love Quotes
Never give up prayer, and should you find dryness and difficulty, persevere in it for this very reason. God often desires to see what love your soul has, and love is not tried by ease and satisfaction. — John of the Cross
When all your desires are distilled; You will cast just two votes: To love more, And be happy. — Hafez
Should I worship Him from fear of hell, may I be cast into it. Should I serve Him from desire of gaining heaven, may He keep me out. But should I worship Him from love alone, He reveals Himself to me, that my whole heart may be filled with His love and presence. — Sadhu Sundar Singh
Most of us were taught that God would love us if and when we change. In fact, God loves you so that you can change. What empowers change, what makes you desirous of change is the experience of love. It is that inherent experience of love that becomes the engine of change. — Richard Rohr
Ordinary love is selfish, darkly rooted in desires and satisfactions. Divine love is without condition, without boundary, without change. The flux of the human heart is gone forever at the transfixing touch of pure love. — Sri Yukteswar Giri
God never witholds from His child that which His love and wisdom call good. God's refusals are always merciful -- "severe mercies" at times but mercies all the same. God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better. — Elisabeth Elliot
...ma gia volgena il mio disio e'l velle si come rota ch'igualmente e mossa, l'amor che move: i sole e l'altre stelle ...as a wheel turns smoothtly, free from jars, my will and my desire were turned by love, The love that moves the sun and the other stars. — Dante Alighieri
The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice. — John Rawls
The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us. — Michel Foucault
Agape love is...profound concern for the well-being of another, without any desire to control that other, to be thanked by that other, or to enjoy the process. — Madeleine L'Engle
Passionate Desire Quotes
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. — Nikos Kazantzakis
There exists within everyone a grand passion, an outlandish thirst for adventure, a desire to live boldly and vividly through the journey of life. — Kurt Hahn
A man cannot govern a nation if he cannot govern a city; he cannot govern a city if he cannot govern a family; he cannot govern a family unless he can govern himself; and he cannot govern himself unless his passions are subject to reason — Hugo Grotius
Its not about passion. Passion is something that we tend to overemphasize, that we certainly place too much importance on. Passion ebbs and flows. To me, it's about desire. If you have constant, unwavering desire to be a cook, then u'll be a great cook. — Thomas Keller
Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman). — Milan Kundera
Flying is more than a sport and more than a job; flying is pure passion and desire, which fill a lifetime. — Adolf Galland
What I fear and desire most in this world is passion. I fear it because it promises to be spontaneous, out of my control, unnamed, beyond my reasonable self. I desire it because passion has color, like the landscape before me. It is not pale. It is not neutral. It reveals the backside of the heart. — Terry Tempest Williams
I am a trans woman. My sisters are trans women. We are not secrets. We are not shameful. We are worthy of respect, desire, and love. As there are many kinds of women, there are many kinds of men, and many men desire many kinds of women, trans women are amongst these women. And let’s be clear: Trans women are women. — Janet Mock
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. — Francis H. Bradley
The electric energy which motivates us is not within our bodies at all. It is a part of the universal supply which flows through us from the Universal Source with an intensity set by our desires and our will. — Walter Russell
Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else. — Italo Calvino
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. — Carl Sandburg
We abandon the most important journey of our lives when we abandon desire. We leave our hearts by the side of the road and head off in the direction of fitting in, getting by, being productive, what have you. Whatever we might gain – money, position, the approval of others, or just absence of the discontent self – it’s not worth it. — John Eldredge
My secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can't live without music. — Compay Segundo
I'm very blessed to have a husband who appreciates me. Women feel sexy from feeling attractive and desired. Men feel sexy from having sex. If you can strike a balance where the man is having sex a lot and the woman is feeling desired enough to have sex, then you've figured out the secret to a marriage that's alive. — Kate Beckinsale
The greatest marketing secret of all time is that people buy more when you make their problems and desires feel more real. — Russell Brunson
When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up. — C. S. Lewis
All of us have a secret desire to be seen as saints, heroes, martyrs. We are afraid to be children, to be ourselves. — Jean Vanier
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness. — F. H. Bradley
What’s the secret to success? It’s no secret. You need a winning attitude, honesty and integrity, and a burning desire to succeed. — Dave Thomas
The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way. — George W. Bush
My definition of financial freedom is simple: it is the ability to live the lifestyle you desire without having to work or rely on anyone else for money. — T. Harv Eker
Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire. — Bobby Unser
The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and also that which it fears. It reaches the height of its cherished aspirations. It falls to the level of its unchastened desires - and circumstances are the means by which the soul receives its own. — James Allen
Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little pretty infant wiles. — William Blake
The secret of the superiority of state over private education lies in the fact
that in the former the teacher is responsible to society ... [T]he result
desired by the state is a wholly different one from that desired by parents,
guardians, and pupils. — Lester Frank Ward
Prayer is not a vain attempt to change God's will; it is a filial desire to learn God's will and to share it. Prayer is not a substitute for work: it is the secret spring and indispensable ally of all true work. — George Arthur Buttrick
Who's in or out, who moves the grand machine, Nor stirs my curiosity, or spleen; Secrets of state no more I wish to know Than secret movements of a puppet-show; Let but the puppets move, I've my desire, Unseen the hand which guides the master wire. — Winston Churchill
Fantasy consists in a morbid fascination with unrealities, which secretly transforms itself into a desire to make them real. Imagination is a form of intellectual control, which presents us with the image of unrealities in order that we should understand and feel distanced from them. In imagination we dominate; in fantasy, we are dominated. — Roger Scruton
The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution's in the soul. — Norman Mailer
When your heart becomes the grave of your secrets, that desire of yours will be gained more quickly. The prophet said that anyone who keeps secret his inmost thought will soon attain the object of his desire. When seeds are buried in the earth, their inward secrets become the flourishing garden. — Rumi
The secret of karma yoga which is to perform actions without any fruitive desires is taught by Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad-Gita. — Swami Vivekananda
The universe gives to those who ask without favor. The electric plug which connects you is desire. — Walter Russell
When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward detective novel. — Patti Smith
The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach. — Lin Yutang
The secret to desire in a long-term relationship — Esther Perel
It has been said by many great Christians that prayer is our secret weapon. If we desire to be free from every enemy stronghold over our lives and fully fortified to live the superhuman existences God intended us to live, then we must learn how to pray. — Leslie Ludy
The man believes the woman's got the hidden secret. That's a rare thing. You meet lots of people, and they're all deserved of love, of course, but romantic love involves some kind of supplement: she has the secret. That's what's desired. — John Maus
Today I live on an island, in a house that is sad, hard, severe, that I built for myself, solitary on a sheer rock over the sea: a house that is the spectre, the secret image of prison. The image of my nostalgia. Maybe I never desired, not even then, to escape from jail. Man is not meant to live freely in freedom, but to be free inside a prison. — Curzio Malaparte
Passing in any crowd are secret people whose hidden response to beauty is the desire to tear it into bleeding meat. — James Tiptree Jr.
When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding. We must have the courage to face whatever is present -- our pain, our desires, our grief, our loss, our secret hopes our love -- everything that moves us most deeply. — Jack Kornfield
The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity. — John Strachan
Key feature of sexual revolution is the large-scale publication and commercialization of details that were once secret. Sexuality has been trivialized. The interesting thing about this is that exaggerated portrayals apparently destroy desire more effectively than any repression. — Volkmar Sigusch
When you are not willing to fully receive, you are training the universe not to give to you! It's simple: if you aren't willing to receive your share, it will go to someone else who is. — T. Harv Eker
You can become a great creator or a little one as the intensity of your desire is little or great. — Walter Russell
The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
People nowadays have such high hopes of America and the political conditions obtaining there that one might say the desires, at least the secret desires, of all enlightened Europeans are deflected to the west, like our magnetic needles. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Stephan was secretive and a liar, but he was a very gentle and expert lover. She was the petted, cherished child, the desired mistress, the worshipped, perfumed goddess. She was all these things to Stephan - or so he made her believe. — Jean Rhys
A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
When all the Self was conquered and dead, when all passions and desires were silent, then the last must awaken, the innermost of Being that is no longer Self - the great secret! — Hermann Hesse
It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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