Desires Quotes
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Lessen selfishness and restrain desires.
Lao Tzu
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Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed, happy or miserable.
Ezra Taft Benson
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She who desires to see, desires also to be seen.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Love is of something, and that which love desires is not that which love is or has; for no man desires that which he is or has. And love is of the beautiful, and therefore has not the beautiful. And the beautiful is the good, and therefore, in wanting and desiring the beautiful, love also wants and desires the good.
Plato
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I have spent many years holding so tightly to things - wants, desires, etc. - but inevitably, they or something even better only arrives when I release the grasp.
Allison McAtee
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The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression.
Eric Maisel
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... it's a tough thing having to step aside for a friend, when your heart's breaking and your nether parts are still tangled up in their base desires.
Bill Willingham
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Memory is not what the heart desires.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Everybody has some one thing they do not want to lose," began the man. "You included. And we are professionals at finding out that very thing. Humans by necessity must have a midway point between their desires and their pride. Just as all objects must have a center of gravity. This is something we can pinpoint. Only when it is gone do people realize it even existed.
Haruki Murakami
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Christ desires nothing more of us than that we speak of him.
Martin Luther
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The husband who 'serves' his wife by continually yielding to her desires or her wishes is in fact asking her to do his job for him. He's ignoring his responsibility to lead.
Bob Lepine
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The average person is full of artificial desires, desires that have been suggested by what other people possess or require.
Christian D. Larson
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Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror, be it clear as Kheled-zaram. Or so says the heart of Gimli the Dwarf.
J. R. R. Tolkien