Desire Quotes
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I don't know if anyone has noticed but I only ever write about one thing: being alone. The fear of being alone, the desire to not be alone, the attempts we make to find our person, to keep our person, to convince our person to not leave us alone, the joy of being with our person and thus no longer alone, the devastation of being left alone. The need to hear the words: You are not alone.
Shonda Rhimes
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I desired dragons with a profound desire. Of course, I in my timid body did not wish to have them in the neighborhood. But the world that contained even the imagination of Fáfnir was richer and more beautiful, at whatever the cost of peril.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Each week I am forced to revise my original opinion that Facebook is a great innovation for keeping people in touch, to believing that it is merely a canvas for members to act out strange, unresolved conflicts and desires.
Emily Yoffe
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I have no desire to desire, and people become like the uncarved wood by themselves.
Lao Tzu
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When we experience our own desire for transformation, we are feeling the universe evolving through us.
Barbara Marx Hubbard
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A society's apprehensiveness about divorce is an expression of its fear of change and of its resulting desire that personality remain unvarying.
Elsie Clews Parsons
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Lay not on any soul a load that you would not wish to be laid upon you, and desire not for any one the things you would not desire for yourself.
Bahá'u'lláh
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She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.
Jane Austen
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Too many of us vote for our prejudices instead of our desires.
William Feather
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We both with Donald Trump share a desire to ensure that governments are working for everyone and particularly that governments are working for ordinary working families and working-class families. And I think that's important. That's what I've spoken about.
Theresa May
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I do not try, Lord, to attain Your lofty heights, because my understanding is in no way equal to it. But I do desire to understand Your truth a little, that truth that my heart believes and loves. I do not seek to understand that I may believe; but I believe so that I may understand. For I believe this also, that unless I believe, I shall not understand.
Anselm of Canterbury
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The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
Confucius
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Director Park always talked to me about her in a very innocent way, that the story was of her coming of age and her sexual awakening and her going from girl to woman and that she had the same desires and hopes as other young people in terms of being very infatuated, which comes in the form of her uncle, which is very unconventional.
Mia Wasikowska
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To be close to your greatest desire could be an exquisite pain
Conn Iggulden
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The will is infinite and the execution confin'd, the desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit.
William Shakespeare
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Sexual passion is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious... and consequently the concentration of all desire.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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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.
Bill Vaughan
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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