Desire Quotes & Sayings
These desire quotes, sayings and quotations are from our famous quotes collection. Inspirational quotes, sayings and quotations.When your life is filled with the desire to see the holiness in everyday life, something magical happens: ordinary life becomes extraordinary, and the very process of life begins to nourish your soul! - Harold S. Kushner
We have this principal desire implanted in us by nature, that our first wish is to preserve ourselves. - Charles Duke Yonge
One of the first things to learn if you want to be a contemplative is to mind your own business. Nothing is more suspicious, in a man who seems holy, than an impatient desire to reform other men. [New Seeds of Contemplation] - Thomas Merton
If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church, the magistrate grants the privilege without answering for the contents of the book. - Voltaire
Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment. - John Dewey
Take note, theologians, that in your desire to make matters of faith out of propositions relating to the fixity of sun and earth you run the risk of eventually having to condemn as heretics those who would declare the earth to stand still and the sun to change position, eventually, I say, at such a time as it might be proved that the earth moves and the sun stands still. - Galileo Galilei
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. - Laurence Sterne
We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names. - Marcus Tullius Cicero