Desire Quotes
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All human beings have an innate desire to overcome suffering, to find happiness. Training the mind to think differently, through meditation, is one important way to avoid suffering and be happy.
Dalai Lama
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Properly understood, then, the desire to act justly derives in part from the desire to express most fully what we are or can be, namely free and equal rational beings with the liberty to choose.
John Rawls
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I believe that, with anything in life, if you have the patience, desire and passion, you can do whatever you set your mind to.
Ed Viesturs
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It's been my desire to support efforts to aim at healing the relationship between law enforcement and the community.
Doug Baldwin
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Be careful what you yearn for, because that which you desire most will either complete you or destroy you, and you don't get to choose.
William Lashner
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There's a desire in me to express something - to match what I hear in my head.
Eric Clapton
Blind Faith
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High achievements demand some other unusual qualification besides an unusual desire for high prizes.
George Eliot
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The beginning as well as the end of all his thoughts was hatred of human law, that hatred which, if it be not checked in its growth by some providential event, becomes, in a certain time, hatred of society, then hatred of the human race, and then hatred of creation, and reveals itself by a vague and incessant desire to injure some living being, it matters not who.
Victor Hugo
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I do think that people have a desire to talk about issues they may have wanted to avoid before. I've never had so many random conversations with people where they're so ready to talk about race, gender, sexual identity, or things that are happening in politics.
Sasheer Zamata
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Fair as a lily, and not only the pride of life, but the desire of his eyes...
Charlotte Bronte
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A man's drive for profit should be prompted by the desire to give charity.
Nachman of Breslov
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The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science is the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.
William Hazlitt
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To the Young Artists of Italy! The cry of rebellion that we launch, linking our ideals with those of the Futurist poets, does not originate in an aesthetic clique. It expresses the violent desire that stirs in the veins of every creative artist today.
Umberto Boccioni
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If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else, clearly this must be the good and the chief good.
Aristotle
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A BURNING DESIRE TO BE, AND TO DO is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off. Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition.
Napoleon Hill
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It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.
Heraclitus