Desire Quotes
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Love without desire is a delusion: it does not exist in nature.
Ninon de L'Enclos
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The pleasure derived from viewing the achievements of others, coupled with a true appreciation of nature, sharpens the desire to express pictorially.
Edgar Alwin Payne
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For without you, I swear, the town
Has become like a prison to me.
Distraction and the mountain
And the desert, all I desire.
Rumi
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He who does not desire much more from things than knowledge of them easily makes peace with his soul.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Dream, but expect nothing. Desire, but expect nothing. Hope, but expect nothing. Release your need to control and gain real control.
Eric Maisel
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Finally, in Chapter 7, I provide some suggestions for how we can increase our ability and desire to engage in more Humble Inquiry.
Edgar Schein
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There are great disciplines from being a sportsman that you can transfer into being an artist. The preparation, the sacrifice, the constant desire to improve.
Matt Smith
Poison
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I am, I am not, I will be, I will not be are vein thoughts which is a sickness and once all are eliminated no desire arises.
Gautama Buddha
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Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.
Lao Tzu
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An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.
Stephen Covey
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When you attack the roots of sin, fix your thought more on the God you desire than on the sin you abhor.
Walter Hilton
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Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible.
Norman Angell
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We do not argue about what happened in the past but discuss what we desire for the future.
Esme Raji Codell
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In high school, my desire for friendship far outweighed my talent for it.
Beth Kephart
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You will never be able to truly step inside another person, to see the world as he sees it, until you develop the pure desire, the strength of personal character, and the positive Emotional Bank Account, as well as the empathetic listening skills to do it.
Stephen Covey
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I have gained and sustained my optimism as a humble student of our living universe, our living Earth, which clearly shows us the way out of our adolescent crisis into a mature global future. The sooner we create our vision of all we desire, set our intention to implement it together, and put our individual capacities into collective action, the greater our chances of success.
Elisabet Sahtouris
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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
Albert Camus
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As the beautiful does not exist for the artist and poet alone—though these can find in it more poignant depths of meaning than other men—so the world of Reality exists for all; and all may participate in it, unite with it, according to their measure and to the strength and purity of their desire.
Evelyn Underhill
