Inner Desire Quotes

What you're seeking is seeking you.

In the depths of the human soul... the desire to give meaning to one's own life is joined by the fleeting vision of beauty and of the mysterious unity of things.

If you don’t know your purpose, discover it, now. The core of your life is your purpose. Everything in your life, from your diet to your career, must be aligned with your purpose if you are to act with coherence and integrity in the world. If you know your purpose, your deepest desire, then the secret of success is to discipline your life so that you support your deepest purpose and minimize distractions and detours.

He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart

You are a slave of what you need in your soul.

I do only what I like. If we do something we don't like, we will become someone else.

I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it.

I deserve that, don't I, some sort of blazing love that I can live with.

Our purpose in life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we simply desire contentment.

Often, the thing we pursue most passionately is but a substitute for the one thing we really want and cannot have.

Christian fasting, at its root, is the hunger of a homesickness for God

I believe that, deep down at heart, I'm a football player.

The ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed... They're all inside me somewhere.

I spend so much time hoping things for myself.

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.

When you yearn for God with intensity, He will come to you.

What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.

Winners, I am convinced, imagine their dreams first. They want it with all their heart and expect it to come true. There is, I believe, no other way to live.

It will be seen that the formula - 'Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law' has nothing to do with 'Do as you please.' It is much more difficult to comply with the Law of Thelema than to follow out slavishly a set of dead regulations.

I didn't do 'Orange' because I knew it was good. I wanted to do this because it feels good. And I just knew that was the place I needed, wanted to be.

The soul must long for God in order to be set aflame by God's love; but if the soul cannot yet feel the longing, then it must long for the longing. To long for the longing is also from God.

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

No man was ever taken to hell by a woman unless he already had a ticket in his pocket.

The desire for transcendence is intimately connected with the desire for creativity. It is just as essential to who and what we are.

The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.