Desire Quotes
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
Edgar Allan Poe
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I desire the love of God not because I am worthy, but because I am unworthy.
Walter Hilton
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From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Will you lose everything you've got if you open your own restaurant? Who knows. Will unleashing your secret desire to teach tap dancing ruin your reputation as a professional wrestler? Who knows. And who cares? Unless your unknown puts you at risk of death, prison, or bodily harm, you have nothing to lose except living a dull, uninspired life.
Jen Sincero
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I don't want to be the ingenue anymore. It's nice to be glamorous, but I don't want to always be an object of desire. Because it doesn't last.
Scarlett Johansson
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Love is blind, but desire just doesn't give a good goddam. sic
James Thurber
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I call that man awake who, with conscious knowledge and understanding, can perceive the deep unreasoning powers in his soul, his whole innermost strength, desire and weakness, and knows how to reckon with himself.
Hermann Hesse
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He never complicates a desire by overthinking it, unlike Mirabelle, who spins a cocoon around an idea until it is immobile.
Steve Martin
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In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film.
Norman McLaren
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It is possible to be a meta-physician without believing in a transcendent reality; for we shall see that many metaphysical utterances are due to the commission of logical errors, rather than to a conscious desire on the part of their authors to go beyond the limits of experience.
Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer
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The heart desires, the hand refrains. The Godhead fires, the soul attains.
William Morris
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You've got to have this burning desire in your chest to succeed.
Rod Stewart
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The way you create any outcome in your life is to hold the vision of your deepest desires. At the same time, though, you must honestly and accurately assess your current situation and how it relates to your greater vision. By doing this, you engage tension between what is and what can be. This tension is the primary creative force behind the manifestation of any outcome. It's as natural and powerful as the force of gravity.
David Emerald Womeldorff
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The tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao The name that can be named is not the eternal Name. The unnamable is the eternally real. Naming is the origin of all particular things. Free from desire, you realize the mystery. Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations. Yet mystery and manifestations arise from the same source. This source is called darkness. Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.
Lao Tzu
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In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre.
Seth Godin
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This man of his, yes, this man. Now Sam accepts his own desire. “I’m a gayrod,” he shouts marching through crowded plazas. “I’m in love with a man, and I want men. That’s what I want. I want man, man, man!
Barry Webster