Desire Quotes
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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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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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Anything that brings you to a decision will be answered. The stronger the decision is, the faster it's answered. So if you're in a situation where it seems life or death, and the desire is strong, it is answered now, because it must be answered now to be answered at all.
Esther Hicks
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Political controls in the sense that we think of bureaus or departments of government can never ope to produce collaboration between groups in the inner wheels of our industrial organization. It must come from inner compulsions and desires.
William O. Douglas
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The desire of love, Joy:The desire of life, Peace:The desire of the soul, Heaven:The desire of God ... a flame-white secret forever.
William Sharp
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Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.
Nicole Kidman
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Faith does not quench desire, but inflames it.
Thomas Aquinas
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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 who has few things to desire cannot have many to fear.
William Blake
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I no longer protect myself from the world I grew up in. Rather, today I try to protect the feelings I have for that world, the emotional space where my desire to write first took hold, and still grows.
Elena Ferrante
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I have a voracious appetite for images I can translate.
Wanda Koop
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The tiny, initial clue ... by allowing us to imagine what we do not know, stimulates a desire for knowledge.
Marcel Proust
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All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.
William Law
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Nothing has happened too fast, nothing has happened too slow. It has been a mellow rise, and I'm thankful for that. I haven't lost my head, and I haven't lost my desire to keep growing.
Brett Dennen
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I feel a frantic desire to free myself. To start all over again and in another way.
Milan Kundera
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In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.
Alexandre Dumas
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The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability.
John Lancaster Spalding
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Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.
Lao Tzu
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All athletic accomplishments begin with volition; that is, the desire and willpower necessary to succeed. Volition affects more than thoughts and feelings - it affects physical performance.
Charles Garfield
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The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life.
Ernst Mach
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Revolutionary syndicalism keeps alive the desire to strike in the masses and only prospers when important strikes, accompanied by violence, take place.
Georges Sorel
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Art was born as a desire, not as a demand.
Eliel Saarinen
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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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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