DESIRE/DESIRES

The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul.

The Bible, Proverbs 13:19 kjv

As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance.

The Bible, 1 Peter 1:14

Dear friends, I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires, which war against your soul.

The Bible, 1 Peter 2:11

D.       etermination

E.       ffort

S.       acrifice

I.       nitiative

R.       esponsibility

E.       nthusiasm

Author unknown

Desire is half of life. Indifference is half of death.

Author unknown

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

Author unknown

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Aesop

Remove every evil desire and clothe yourself with good and holy desire. For if you are clothed with good desire, you will hate evil desire and bridle it as you please.

Shepherd of Hermas

To have more, desire less.

Martin Luther

Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.

George Macdonald

After a time, you may find that “having” is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as “wanting.” It is not logical, but it is often true.

Spock, “Amok Time,” stardate 3372.7

We desire most what we ought not to have.

Publilius Syrus

When a man desires anything inordinately, he is at once unquiet in himself.

Thomas à Kempis

In idleness there is a perpetual despair.

Thomas Carlyle

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

Benjamin Disraeli

To live without hope is to cease to live.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Despair is suffering without meaning.

Viktor Frankl

Eternal Wisdom: Thou must not despair. Did I not come into the world for the sake of thee and all sinners, that I might lead thee back to My Father in such beauty, brightness, and purity, as otherwise thou never couldst have acquired?

Henry Suso

It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.

Jeremy Taylor

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

Terence

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

Henry David Thoreau