Desire Quotes
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To bliss unknown by lofty soul aspires, My lot unequal to my vast desires.
John Arbuthnot
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If we desire to do what will please God, and what will help men, we presently find ourselves taken out of our narrow habits of thought and action; we f1nd new elements of our nature called into activity; we are no longer running along a narrow track of selfish habit.
James Freeman Clarke
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You need good training partners - because you’re only as good as your training partners - and a strong desire to always get better.
Cain Velasquez
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When desire dies, fear is born.
Baltasar Gracian
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You are in the same manner surrounded with a small circle of persons... full of desire. They demand of you the benefits of desire... You are therefore properly the king of desire. ...equal in this to the greatest kings of the earth... It is desire that constitutes their power; that is, the possession of things that men covet.
Blaise Pascal
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Wherever we turn we find that the real obstacles to peace are human will and feeling, human convictions, prejudices, opinions. If we want to get rid of war we must get rid first of all of its psychological causes. Only when this has been done will the rulers of the nations even desire to get rid of the economic and political causes.
Aldous Huxley
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All people - African, European, American - worry about being different. But I've learned that the traits we'd rush to get rid of are the very ones that others desire. People always covet what they don't have. That's why we should look at ourselves every now and then and say, 'I'm proud of myself. I like the way I'm made.'
Freida Pinto
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I am single and without children. I'm actually one of those people who's just never had a great desire to have kids.
Paula Hawkins
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The desire to sacrifice an entire lifetime to the noblest of ideals serves no purpose if one works alone.
Che Guevara
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I am gay on the outside, especially among my own folk (I count Poles my own); but inside something gnaws at me; some presentiment, anxiety, dreams - or sleeplessness - melancholy, indifference - desire for life, and the next instant, desire for death; some kind of sweet peace, some kind of numbness, absent-mindedness.
Frederic Chopin
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Mr. Best has expressed the desire to work with me, and I should be more than pleased to have him. His work has been excellent, and he is absolutely honest, careful, and impartial and has taken a great interest in the work.
Frederick Banting
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Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.
Mason Cooley
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Human history is not the product of the wise direction of human reason, but is shaped by the forces of emotion-our dreams, our pride, our greed, our fears, and our desire for revenge.
Lin Yutang
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The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data.
John Tukey
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The main point of any spiritual practice is to step out of the bureaucracy of ego. This means stepping out of ego's constant desire for a higher, more spiritual, more transcendental version of knowledge, religion, virtue, judgment, comfort, or whatever it is that the particular ego is seeking. One must step out of spiritual materialism.
Chogyam Trungpa
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I don't see myself doing any comedies. I like comedies as much as anyone else; I just don't really have a desire to do them.
Brad Anderson
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"Is it possible to both want and not want something at the same time? For desire to ride with fear?
S. J. Watson
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They draw back into themselves, and are thrown back on their own bodies for gratification. The men become narcissistic and uncertain of the power of any woman, no matter how strange and beautiful, to arouse their desire, but the women remain continually receptive to male advances.
Margaret Mead
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While a few pertinent points have to be marked, the general impression I desire to convey is of a side door crashing open in life's full flight, and a rush of roaring black time drowning with its whipping wind the cry of lone disaster.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it.
Otto Dix
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There is no neediness in desire ... there is no caretaking in desire. Caretaking is mightily loving, but it's a powerful anti-aphrodisiac.
Esther Perel
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A constructive work is an embodiment of freedom itself, and is unconsciously perceived, even by those who are consciously against it. The desire to live is the strongest universal emotion, it springs from the depths of our unconscious sensibility – and the desire to give life is our most potent, constructive, conscious expression of this intuition.
Barbara Hepworth
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I don't know what happened, but I lost the desire to acquire more things. It's very peaceful to have lost that desire.
Lee Radziwill
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People just don't realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them.
Frederica Mathewes-Green