Quoty: quotes tagged with 'desire'

This is obvious with tennis or piano playing, w...

This is obvious with tennis or piano playing, where it is impossible to pretend. But it is not so obvious in emotional and spiritual areas. We can "pose" and put on a friend. We can pretend. And "for a while" we can get by with it - at least in public or on "one-night stands." We might even decieve ourselves. Yet, I believe that most of us know the truth of what we really are inside, as do some of those we live with and work around.

To relate effectively with our wife, husband, or children requires emotional strength, because we must learn to listen. Listening involves patience, openness and the desire to understand. And when we are really open, we run the risk that we may be changed - we may be influenced. And if we are so sure that we are gith, we don't wan to change. We find it easier ot be closed and to tell and dictate. It is easier to operate from our day two emotinal level and to give day six advice.

Author: Stephen R. Covey, Source: "Spiritual Roots of Human Relations", Deseret Book 1970 - 8th printing, pp. 8
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In discussing our various longings for more, I'...

In discussing our various longings for more, I'm not suggesting we adopt Scrooge as a role model for good parenting. I am suggesting that it is important for families and individuals to aggressively seek more of the virtues which go beyond this mortal life. A prayerful, conservative approach is the key to successfully living in an affluent society and building the qualities that come from waiting, sharing, saving, working hard, and making do with what we have. May we be blessed with the desire and the ability to understand when more is really less and when more is better.
Author: Bishop H. David Burton , Source: http://lds.org/conference/talk/display/0,5232,23-1-479-31,00.h...
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Gratitude is the beginning of all desire.

Gratitude is the beginning of all desire.
Author: Ed J. Pinegar, Source: unknown
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It is not the duration of our prayers but the d...

It is not the duration of our prayers but the depth of our desire that results in revelation.
Author: L. Lionel Kendrick, Source: BYU Devotional, 20 May 1997
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It is not the things of this world that either ...

It is not the things of this world that either occupy the soul or cause it harm, since they enter it not, but rather the will and desire for them.
Author: John of the Cross, Source: The Ascent of Mount Carmel, trans. E. Peers (Garden City, NY: Image Books, 1958), p. 110
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What we get from a book�especially a sacred tex...

What we get from a book�especially a sacred text�is mostly dependent on what we take to its reading�in desire and readiness to learn, and in attunement to the light communicated by the Spirit of the Lord.
Author: Dallin H. Oaks, Source: May 2006 Ensign, All Men Everywhere
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Boredom: the desire for desires.

Boredom: the desire for desires.
Author: Leo Tolstoy, Source: Anna Karenina
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For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye ...

For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened:
But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality:
Author: Paul, Source: http://scriptures.lds.org/en/2_cor/8/13-14#13
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If I find in myself a desire which no experienc...

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
Author: C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, Source: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/C.S._Lewis
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Desire can be measured by preparation.

Desire can be measured by preparation.
Author: Barton Thacker, Source: Unknown
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You can have anything you want - if you want it...

You can have anything you want - if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
Author: Abraham Lincoln, Source: Unknown
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Every human mind is a great slumbering power un...

Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by a keen desire and by definite resolution to do.
Author: Edgar F. Roberts, Source: Unknown
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