Desire To Live Quotes

Desire To Live Quotes by Isaac Barrow, Terry Brooks, Nawal El Saadawi, Isaac Asimov, Kurt Hahn, William Thoms and many others.

If we desire to live securely, comfortably, and quietly

If we desire to live securely, comfortably, and quietly, that by all honest means we should endeavor to purchase the good will of all men, and provoke no man’s enmity needlessly; since any man’s love may be useful, and every man’s hatred is dangerous.
Isaac Barrow
Herein lies the heart and soul of the nations. Their right to be free men, Their desire to live in peace, Their courage to seek out truth, Herein lies the Sword of Shannara.
Terry Brooks
I have triumphed over both life and death because I no longer desire to live, nor do I any longer fear to die.
Nawal El Saadawi
There is no more desire to live past one’s time than to die before it.
Isaac Asimov
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
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
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
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
while we all desire to live long, we have all a horror of being old!
Fanny Burney
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
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
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
That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.
Robin Hobb
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
You may as well quit reading and hearing the Word of God, and give it to the devil, if you do not desire to live according to it.
Martin Luther
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
I knew I was too late—and I was glad something bloodthirsty waited in the wings. For in failing at this, I forfeited any desire to live.
Stephenie Meyer