Natsuki Takaya Quotes
We're all born with selfish desires, so we can all relate to those feelings in others. But kindness is something made individually by each person. So it's easy to misunderstand when others are trying to be kind to you.
Quotes to Explore
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The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
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My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
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Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.
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Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
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The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.
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Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
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Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
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When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!'
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There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
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My relationship to food is that of an acrophobe to a bridge. Unease masks a desire to jump.
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I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York.
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
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All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
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My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.
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And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously.
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Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.
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I wasn't born, I was ordered from room service.
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I come from a very athletic family. But I didn't have the typical Jewish sports heroes. I mean, like lots of Jewish kids I admired Sandy Koufax. But I didn't look up to him as the one person who gave me the desire to push on and succeed. My brothers did that for me.
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It's wonderful to feel desired. There's a sense of power in it, really.
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So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point, at least, every one is an optimist, that the greatest usefulness must be ascribed to knowledge. They are all tyrannized over by logic, and this is optimism in its essence.
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We're all born with selfish desires, so we can all relate to those feelings in others. But kindness is something made individually by each person. So it's easy to misunderstand when others are trying to be kind to you.
