Desire Quotes
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To mourn deeply for the death of another loosens from myself the petty desire for, and the animal adherence to life. We have gained the end of the philosopher, and view without shrinking the coffin and the pall.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Being open and observant of people and the world around you is really important. People have the same desires and needs online as they do offline. The way that people are stays constant. You can change the format, make it easier for them to communicate or use photos instead of words but human necessities never change.
Caterina Fake
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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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Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.
Lao Tzu
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Good listeners have a huge advantage. For one, when they engage in conversation, they make people 'feel' heard. They 'feel' that someone really understands their wants, needs and desires. And for good reason; a good listener does care to understand.
Simon Sinek
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I had a God who knew my every desire. He also knew how I would fall. And yet he was waiting on the other side of my failure and my shattered dreams with some dreams of his own...
Eric Ludy
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A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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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The sluggish economy is creating a situation where the young people in Japan cannot cherish their desires or have prospects for their future. Also, the decline in Japan's economic capability is resulting in a declining presence for Japan's foreign policy as well. Accordingly, the duties and mission that I must fulfill are pretty clear: namely, to regain a strong and robust economy, and also to restore Japan's strong foreign policy capability.
Shinzo Abe
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My desires are foolish. The things I want are better kept to myself. The hand of silence is steady. The hard blade of silence is clean like night. The code is absolute. Silence is eternal and patient. Silence never makes a fool of itself like I have so many times.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.
Thomas à Kempis
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Music is the career Im lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions.
Layne Thomas Staley Alice in Chains
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Desire is endless and unappeasable, is most intense where most forbidden, and is never far from despair.
Allen Wheelis
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God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.
Elisabeth Elliot
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I love being in a brothers band. I have no desire to move away from it at all.
Joe Jonas Jonas Brothers
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The truth is many singles deeply desire and pray for marriage.
Eric Metaxas
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I have no special desire to go crawl around in caves, but I really like the word spelunking and want to use it in conversation. I do a lot of things just to use words I like.
Evan Mandery
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No more fatuous chimera has ever infested the brain than that you can control opinions by law or direct belief by statute, and no more pernicious sentiment ever tormented the heart than the barbarous desire to do so. The field of inquiry should remain open, and the right of debate must be regarded as a sacred right.
William Borah
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Well, I always had this desire to celebrate and somehow be a part of things that I thought were really great.
John Hodgman
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For every man who has learned to fight in arms will desire to learn the proper arrangement of an army, which is the sequel of the lesson.
Plato
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I think the acting satisfies the need and desire for approval.
William Shatner
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Everyone has been made for some particular work and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
Rumi
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He who is drawn to something desirable does not desire to have it as a thought but as a thing.
Thomas Aquinas
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The unique thing about my life is the extent to which it took me on a path-business-I had no desire to walk.
Norio Ohga