Desire To Live Quotes:

However widespread the desire to be free, that is wholly different from a desire to live in a society where others are free.

- Thomas Sowell

topic: Desire, Different, Desire To Live

The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.

- Heraclitus

topic: Desire, World, Desire To Live, Dissatisfaction

A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.

- Thomas Merton

topic: Life, God, Spiritual, Spiritual Masters, Desire To Live

My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.

- Oscar Wilde

source: Oscar Wilde (1962). “The letters of Oscar Wilde”

topic: Heart, Broken, Sorrow, Desire To Live, Broken Hearted

I wake up every morning with a great desire to live joyfully.

- Anna Howard Shaw

topic: Happiness, Morning, Desire, Desire To Live

I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Famous Inspirational, Desire, World, Desire To Live, Irrepressible

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

topic: Passion, Adventure, Journey, Desire To Live, Outlandish

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Time, Eyelashes, Long, Desire To Live

Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live

- Remy de Gourmont

topic: Art, Desire, Desire To Live

Don’t be discouraged at seemingly overwhelming odds in your desire to live and to help others live God’s commandments. At times it may seem like David trying to fight Goliath. But remember, David did win.

- David B. Haight

topic: Fighting, Helping Others, Winning, Overwhelming Odds, Desire To Live

It seems that more people today have a greater desire to live long than they do to live well.

- Croft M. Pentz

topic: Long, People, Excellence, Desire To Live

Whatever may be open to disagreement, there is one act of evil that may not, the act that no man may commit against others and no man may sanction or forgive. So long as men desire to live together, no man may initiate—do you hear me? no man may start—the use of physical force against others.

- Ayn Rand

topic: Men, Long, Evil, Acts Of Evil, Desire To Live

True ambition is not what we thought it was. True ambition is the profound desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of God.

- Bill W.

topic: Ambition, Profound, Grace, Desire To Live

The desire to live life to its fullest, to acquire more knowledge, to abandon the economic treadmill, are all typical reactions to these experiences in altered states of consciousness. The previous fear of death is typically quelled. If the individual generally remains thereafter in the existential state of awareness, the deep internal feeling of eternity is quite profound and unshakable.

- Edgar Mitchell

topic: Live Life, Profound, Feelings, Altered States, Desire To Live

My loving people, we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourself to armed multitudes for fear of treachery; but I assure you, I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people. I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a King of England too, and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any Prince of Europe should dare to invade the borders of my realm.

- Elizabeth I

source: Speech to the Troops at Tilbury, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. August 19, 1588.

topic: Kings, Heart, Thinking, Desire To Live

The person who does not desire to live more abundantly is abnormal, and so the person who does not desire to have money enough to buy all he wants is abnormal.

- Wallace D. Wattles

source: Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “Wallace D. Wattles Ultimate Collection – 10 Books in One Volume: The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, The Science of Being Great, How to Get What You Want and more: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of Making of the Man Who Can or How to Promote Yourself and New Science of Living and Healing or Health Through New Thought and Fasting”, p.10, e-artnow

topic: Desire, Doe, Abnormal, Desire To Live

A nation has a soul, a spiritual principle. One is in the past, the other in the present. One is the possession of a rich legacy of memories; the other is the desire to live together and to value the common heritage.

- Ernest Renan

topic: Spiritual, Memories, War, Desire To Live

Human will-power alone is not enough. Will-power is excellent and we should always be using it; but it is not enough. A desire to live a good life is not enough. Obviously we should all have that desire, but it will not guarantee success.

- Martyn Lloyd-Jones

topic: Good Life, Desire, Guarantees, Human Will, Will Power

I’ve always been a sort of self-imposed outsider, not a geeky outsider or a snobby outsider but, I just have a natural desire to live on the fringe. I’m not like a weirdo with a trench-coat but I just prefer to be alone or minimally surrounded by people.

- Sara Quin

topic: Self, People, Desire, Desire To Live, Trench Coats

I do now most heartily desire to live but to exalt Jesus; to live preaching and to die preaching; to preach to perishing sinners till I drop down dead.

- Henry Grattan Guinness

topic: Jesus, Desire, Preaching, Desire To Live, Perishing

Among us, I am happy to say, old age is honorable, and regarded as a blessing from the Lord. It is our duty to desire to live long upon the earth, that we may do as much good as we possibly can. I esteem it a great privilege to have the opportunity of living in mortality. The Lord has sent us here "for a wise and glorious purpose," and it should be our business to find out what that purpose is and then to order our lives accordingly.

- Lorenzo Snow

topic: Life, Wise, Blessing, Desire To Live

Anyone, then, who desires to live chastely in Christ Jesus, must flee not only the mouse of lust, but even from its very scent.

- Anthony of Padua

topic: Jesus, Lust, Desire, Friars, Desire To Live

If you want to know the one reason that's taking me back, I'll tell you: I cannot bring myself to abandon to destruction all the greatness of the world, all that which was mine and yours, which was made by us and is still ours by right - because I cannot believe that men refuse to see, that they can remain blind and deaf to us forever, when the truth is ours and their lives depend on accepting it. . . . So long as men desire to live, I cannot lose my battle.

- Ayn Rand

topic: Believe, Men, Greatness, Desire To Live

Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!

- Friedrich Nietzsche

source: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1915). “The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche”

topic: Desire, Reincarnation, Cases, Desire To Live

The urge to create, the urge to photograph, comes in part from the deep desire to live with more integrity, to live more in peace with the world, and possibly to help others to do the same.

- Wynn Bullock

source: Wynn Bullock, Barbara Bullock-Wilson (1984). “Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning”, Gibbs Smith

topic: Photography, Integrity, Helping Others, Deep Desire, Desire To Live

Much of a poet's experience takes place in imagination only; the life he tells is oftenest the life that he strongly desires to live, and the power, the purity and height of his utterance may not seldom be the greater because experience here uses the voices of desire.

- George Edward Woodberry

topic: Voice, Imagination, Desire, Desire To Live

There's always a tension in me between my urge to destroy and my will to live... Every morning I wake up with a new wrath, a new suspiciousness, a new desire to live.

- Ingmar Bergman

topic: Morning, Wrath, Desire, Desire To Live, Will To Live

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

- Jonathan Swift

topic: Men, Long, Wish, Growing Old, Desire To Live

There is nothing more beautiful in the world, enough to lose one's head. A sunset with a long nose, a starry sky that lies, a river searching for its father, a beautiful blue forest. It makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it's very mean, generous, magical, universal, a picture of freedom, of unrestrained desire to live, of pain and joy - a joy so powerful and sweet that it restores the souls in every spot on earth. The story of Pinocchio - nothing more beautiful in the world.

- Roberto Benigni

topic: Beautiful, Sweet, Pain, Make You Cry, Make You Laugh

Art includes everything which stimulates the desire to live; science includes everything which sharpens the desire to know. Art, even the most disinterested, the most disembodied, is the auxiliary of life.

- Remy de Gourmont

source: "Selections from All His Works".

topic: Art, Knowledge, Science, Desire To Live, Disinterested

Persons who have no desire to live have a very slight chance of recovery. We can continue to extend to them our love, sympathy, and prayers; but ultimately we must respect a person's decision to die.

- Michio Kushi

topic: Love, Prayer, Recovery, Desire To Live

I do not desire to die soon, because in Heaven there is no suffering. I desire to live a long time because I yearn to suffer much for the love of my Spouse.

- Magdalena de Pazzi

topic: Long, Heaven, Suffering, Desire To Live

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

topic: Giving Up, Humility, Desire, Obedience To God, Desire To Live

I do - oh, indeed I do - desire to live up to my profession, to be His, for time and eternity. But I am learning to sec how very weak I am, and how easily Satan can conquer me even when I do strive against him. I do believe with my head that Jesus can, and will give me His grace, and I do not need to fear, yet somehow my heart seems to be hard and cold and not to take it in. Oh, if we were but there - where there is no more sin ! Oh do not forget to pray for me, and don't ever doubt the love of your unworthy friend.

- Frances Ridley Havergal

topic: Jesus, Believe, Heart, Desire To Live, Pray For Me

I have no desire to live anywhere else but New Zealand. I've had the good fortune to travel widely around the world, but New Zealand is home - and I like to be here. I'm proud to be a New Zealander.

- Edmund Hillary

source: "Sir Edmund Hillary's last ever interview". Interview with Maggie Barry, www.noted.co.nz. January 26, 2008.

topic: Home, Desire, Proud, Desire To Live

There is no more desire to live past one's time than to die before it.

- Isaac Asimov

topic: Death, Past, Desire, Desire To Live

The inert mind is a greater danger than the inert body, for it overlays and stifles the desire to live.

- Robertson Davies

topic: Mind, Desire, Body, Desire To Live

Bind to you friends of your own kind, friends who will encourage you, stand with you, live as you desire to live, who will enjoy the same kind of entertainment, and who will resist the evil that you determine to resist.

- Gordon B. Hinckley

topic: Evil, Desire, Entertainment, Desire To Live

From the tiny birds of the air and from the fragile lilies of the field, we learn the same truth, which is so important for those who desire to live a life of simple faith: God takes care of His own. He knows our needs. He anticipates our crises. He is moved by our weaknesses. He stands ready to come to our rescue. And at just the right moment, He steps in and proves Himself as our faithful heavenly Father.

- Charles R. Swindoll

source: Charles R. Swindoll (1999). “Grace Awakening/Hope Again/Simple Faith”, Nelsonword Publishing Group

topic: Father, Simple, Air, Desire To Live, Simple Faith

An affirmation is simply a positive declaration of something you believe to be true or something you expect to become true and desire to live by. Affirmations transform your thinking, your attitudes, and finally, your behavior. Their impact on attitudes and behavior help to produce the results you desire.

- Paul J. Meyer

topic: Attitude, Believe, Thinking, Desire To Live

Ours is certainly not an old culture. Yet in recent decades we've used more energy, destroyed more soil, created more pathogenicity (temporarily stopped some too, for sure), mutated more bacteria, and dumped more toxicity on the planet than all the cultures before us-combined. I love the United States, but I am not blind to the wrongs. I have no desire to live anywhere else, but that doesn't mean I think everything we're doing should be done or can be maintained.

- Joel Salatin

topic: Mean, Thinking, Desire, Old Culture, Desire To Live

There appears to exist a greater desire to live long than to live well! Measure by man's desires, he cannot live long enough; measure by his good deeds, and he has not lived long enough; measure by his evil deeds, and he has lived too long.

- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

topic: Life, Men, Long, Desire To Live

The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.

- Richard Powers

topic: Ideas, Imagination, Desire, Desire To Live

Let no one who has the slightest desire to live in peace and quietness be tempted, under any circumstances, to enter upon the chivalrous task of trying to correct a popular error.

- William Thoms

topic: Errors, Desire, Trying, Desire To Live

What we share with animals is a desire for choice. It's a desire to have control over our life and a desire to live and use choice as a way in which we can facilitate our ability to live and that is something we really were born with.

- Sheena Iyengar

source: Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

topic: Animal, Choices, Desire, Desire To Live

There will never Queen sit in my seat with more zeal to my country, care to my subjects and that will sooner with willingness venture her life for your good and safety than myself. For it is my desire to live nor reign no longer than my life and reign shall be for your good. And though you have had, and may have, many princes more mighty and wise sitting in this seat, yet you never had nor shall have, any that will be more careful and loving.

- Elizabeth I

source: Farewell Speech to the House of Commons, en.wikisource.org. November 30, 1601.

topic: Wise, Country, Queens, Desire To Live

It is my fundamental belief that all human beings share the same basic aspirations: that we all want hapiness and that we all share suffering. Asians, just like Americans, Europeans, and the rest of the world, share a desire to live life to its fullest, to better ourselves and the lives of our loved ones.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Desire To Live

When the Holy Spirit sanctifies believers, he does a complete work in them. He puts into their minds, wills and hearts a gracious, supernatural principle which fills them with a holy desire to live to God. The whole life and being of holiness lies in this. This is the new creation.

- John Owen

topic: Lying, Heart, Mind, Desire To Live, Sanctify

To multiply the years and divide by the desire to live is a kind of false accounting.

- Peter Heller

source: Peter Heller (2012). “The Dog Stars”, p.103, Vintage

topic: Years, Desire, Kind, Accounting, Desire To Live

All action is generated by desire. It is the desire to live that causes us to reincarnate.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Desire, Causes, Action, Desire To Live