A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Those that abide in Christ as their heart's desire shall have, through Christ, their heart's desire. — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
It is the essence of dignity to pretend to desire what you cannot prevent. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
From what may anyone be saved? Only from themselves! That is, their individual hell. They dig it with their own desires. — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
“The desire to be pitied or to be admired often forms the greater part of our confidence.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Nothing prevents us being natural so much as the desire to appear so.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If you think that the people of the Soviet Union have any desire themselves, and moreover, by force, to alter the face… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
I came out of a sort of experimental background, and I didn't ever really expect - or even desire - a career… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire! To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire...driven by… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
If love is a yearning to be like (even to become) the beloved, then hatred, it must be said, can be engendered… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
To the person who desires nothing and does not get entangled in desires, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I would like to believe I would not have behaved differently had I not made a term limits pledge, but my own… — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead; the one… — Socrates Copy Share Image
This is no magnificent deed, because I do not want followers, and I mean this. The moment you follow someone you cease… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
None of us are rational economic men as we're supposed to be portrayed in economic theory where mixes of passions, of desires,… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
So now, from this mad passion Which made me take art for an idol and a king I have learnt the burden… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
O sancta simplicitas! What strange simplification and falsification mankind lives on! One can never cease to marvel once one has acquired eyes… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there's no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Even if it is indifferent to human desires, as it seems to be; if human life is a passing episode, hardly noticeable… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Hope rather that in the end even the least of your desires shall have fruit.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“I wanted nothing more than for her to feel me – my desire for her, the pleasure I could give her, my… — Elizabeth Finn Copy Share Image
Happy indeed are the arahants! No craving can be found in them. Cut off is the conceit 'I am,' Burst asunder is… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Reducing our desires and eliminating false neediness is the answer to resolving the nagging inner discomfort that we feel. — Angelina Love Copy Share Image
I've always had a desire to write something and capture people's imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Lovers feel a certain burning in their hearts. A deep longing and desire to meet with the beloved creates that burning. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Prayer [is] the quiet, persistent living of our life of desire and faith in the presence of our God. — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
All action is generated by desire. It is the desire to live that causes us to reincarnate. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I have never in my life taken a command into battle and had the slightest desire to come out alive unless I… — Philip Sheridan Copy Share Image
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“All I need to do is place my pen against paper and your love writes for me.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be BELIEF, not… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“There was something about a book that inspired dedication and a swelling desire to possess it.” — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
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