Desire Quotes
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Romantic love is one of the most extreme human experiences. Under a functional magnetic resonance imaging scan, passionate love looks like a lightning strike; centers deep in the midbrain flare up and release a torrent of dopamine and norepinephrine. It’s so close to what happens when we’re angry or afraid, that psychologists believe any intense feeling, in a “spillover effect,” can ignite desire.
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They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.
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Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.
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You can develop a burning desire to succeed. How? Keep your mind on the things you want and off the things you don't want.
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Distrust those in whom the desire to punish is strong.
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To act well in this world, one must sacrifice all personal desires. The people who become missionaries of religious thought have no other Fatherland than this thought. Man is not on Earth merely to be happy, nor even simply to be honest. He is here to realize great things for humanity, to attain nobility, and to surmount the vulgarity of nearly every individual.
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Over time we are able to undermine habitual modes of thinking formed by our self-made self in early childhood, which tries to squeeze happiness from the gratification of our desires for the symbols in our culture of survival and security, power and control, and affection and esteem.
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Combine your mental images with the emotion of desire to accelerate their realization.
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The Master's power is like this. He lets all things come and go effortlessly, without desire. He never expects results; thus he is never disappointed. He is never disappointed; thus his spirit never grows old.
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The week before the (US Open) I gave a few interviews for CNN, USA Network, New York Times, USA Today and Sports Illustrated which had been arranged beforehand. The reason for giving these interviews is not only because working with the media is just part of the job, it is much more my desire to contribute to the promotion of tennis in the U.S.
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Women who try to be equivalent with men need desire.
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The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn't matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.
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Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
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There is a certain kind of person who is so dominated by the desire to be loved for himself alone that he has constantly to test those around him by tiresome behavior; what he says and does must be admired, not because it is intrinsically admirable, but because it is his remark, his act. Does not this explain a good deal of avant-garde art?
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Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.
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No matter what face he wears, Satan has one overmastering ambition, one burning desire-to dethrone the Almighty and to place himself upon the highest throne of the universe.
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The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.
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The desire of our hearts, of course, is not only to acquire salvation and immortality but also to attain eternal life with a loving Father in Heaven and our Savior in the celestial kingdom with our families. We can obtain eternal life only through obedience to the laws and ordinances of the gospel.
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That inner narrative - the desire to understand the way I am - never really switches off.
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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It is my fondest desire to bust a host of caps into multitudes of fleshy personages.
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The United States invented the Internet and it has been our gift to the world, paid for by our taxpayers. The U.N.'s desire to take that gift as a means of increasing its power must be stopped.
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Desire outweighs footwork when it comes to crashing the glass.
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I've never had a desire to be famous. Lots of actors are actually extremely shy. I have shy areas.
