We cannot fashion our children after our desires we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

Conjugal love or the friendship of spouses can persist even after sexual desires have weakened withered and disappeared.

The three main sources of scepticism are first that not every people desires freedom second that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous and third that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.

Their poverty secured their freedom since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

However it is debased or misinterpreted love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it the child who dislikes it disgraced.

When I first left Iran at the age of 13 Iran had become such a shining star - it was the point to which all my desires and dreams returned.

What differentiates us from animals is the fact that we can listen to other people's dreams fears joys sorrows desires and defeats - and they in turn can listen to ours.

With Shakespeare and poetry a new world was born. New dreams new desires a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.

Literature for me isn't a workaday job but something which involves desires dreams and fantasy.

Though we may have desires or bold goals for whatever reason most of us don't think we can achieve something beyond what we're qualified to achieve. Why I ask do we let reality interfere with our dreams?

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest with visions to be realized than lord among those without dreams and desires.

In giving us children God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet according to His perfect design it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled.

I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses and from desires that make us their puppets and from the vagaries of the mind and from the hard service of the flesh.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

You can love more than one person in your life but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position.