Desire Quotes
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I went on to discover that in its deepest sense, the will is not primarily the faculty of desire for anything known, but rather, the desire for something unknown, animate desire for something that lies beyond ourselves, a longing for something we know is missing in us.
Bernadette Roberts
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I desire to have a dialogue that's positive, and communicative and moves forward, and is about something real, not just consumption.
Mike Vallely
Black Flag
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The reason we can't attain the highest level of knowledge while incarnate is that we can't then wholly escape the influence of the body (and so of perception and of certain desires that take us away from thinking properly); and that prevents us from understanding fully what forms are, which one must do in order to have the highest level of knowledge.
Gail Fine
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Desire is no light thing.
Anne Carson
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I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn't want them either, so it worked out well.
Dolly Parton
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Remove the conflict between your desires and your duties, peace will come.
Wasif Ali Wasif
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Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever.
Arthur Keith
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As we increasingly become aware of the One Life breathing in each brother form of life, we learn the meaning of compassion, which literally means to 'suffer with' ... How does [the] self cause the desire which causes suffering?...by the illusion of separateness, the unawareness of One.
Christmas Humphreys
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
William James
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We prefer people who are trying to imitate us more than those who are trying to equal us. This is because imitation is a sign of esteem, but the desire to equal others is a sign of envy.
Madeleine de Souvre
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If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else, clearly this must be the good and the chief good.
Aristotle
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I endeavor not to conceal that I believe there is a great mixture of desire in the passion which is called love – or rather, without any far – fetched strain on words, it may be called the companion of love.
Sarah Fielding
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The problem is that the media rarely discusses the real reasons behind why women leave their jobs. We hear a lot about the desire to be closer to the children, the love of crafting and gardening, and making food from scratch. But reasons like lack of maternity leave, lack of affordable day care, lack of job training, and unhappiness with the 24/7 work culture-well, those aren't getting very much airtime.
Emily Matchar
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The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.
George Eliot
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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
Petrarch
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“Science itself, no matter whether it is the search for truth or merely the need to gain control over the external world, to alleviate suffering, or to prolong life, is ultimately a matter of feeling, or rather, of desire-the desire to know or the desire to realize.”
Louis de Broglie
