“Removing possessions begins to turn back our desire for more as we find freedom, happiness, and abundance in owning less. And” — Joshua Becker Copy Share Image
LOVE and LOVER live in Eternity. Other desires are substitutes for that way of being. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Imprisoned is he whose heart is imprisoned from Allâh. Captured is he who is captured by his desires. — Ibn Taymiyyah Copy Share Image
I feel like there's a desire for a sense of permanence that is growing in me. — Francois Arnaud Copy Share Image
To succeed takes more than the desire to win. It also takes the acceptance that we could fail. — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
Who doth desire that chaste his wife should be, first be he true, for truth doth truth deserve. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
But you have to allow a little for the desire to evangelize when you think you have good news. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
The craving for things we think are outside ourselves binds us to suffering. — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
I don't want to overstate tantra because I'm sure there are scumbags everywhere, but it seems like it's an ideology that actually… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Oh, yes. I'd do it all again; the spirit is willing yet; I feel the same desire to do the work but… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
The entire life of the personal ego is continually in the grip of wanting, i. e., an attempt to seek fulfilment of… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
I'm simply saying that our deepest thoughts, desires and preoccupations manifest themselves in art, whether we intend them to or not. That's… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
To be reverent is not just to be quiet. It involves an awareness of what is taking place. It involves a divine… — L. Lionel Kendrick Copy Share Image
All human suffering springs from unbridled desire. Unless one extricates oneself from the clutch of greed, one will not free himself from… — Velupillai Prabhakaran Copy Share Image
the most dangerous temptations are not due to the active, sudden flames of desire, 'the lusts of the flesh,' but to the… — Sigrid Undset Copy Share Image
The trees called to me, urging me to abandon what I knew and vanish into the oncoming night. It was a desire… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
What's madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, My… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. The acknowledgment of those virtues on which conscience congratulates us is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“It isn’t everyday that we want to see a syrupy Van Gogh or hear a piquant fugue by Bach, or make love… — Luis Fernando Veríssimo Copy Share Image
In [Ralph] Ellison's case, it's more psychological than it is phenomenal, and it's conditioned by anger, animosity, and lack of desire to… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
“As we said before, initiation lies at the core of any genuine human life. And this is true for two reasons. The… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
It must be admitted that the tendency of the human race toward liberty is largely thwarted, especially in France. This is greatly… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Man's desire for the approval of his fellows is so strong, his dread of their censure so violent, that he himself has… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I'm really fortunate to have been to the schools I've been to, and to have the experiences I've had. And, partly since… — Steven C. Harper Copy Share Image
The cues that arouse desire are changed by Fashion, but feel like the proddings of Nature. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I always thought the appeal for vampires are the same as religion, the desire to avoid death and live forever. — Bentley Little Copy Share Image
If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount. — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
“Bold, extravagant goals fire our imagination and kindle our desire.” — Ben Hunt-Davis Copy Share Image
Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The vanity of shining in conversation is usually subversive of its own desires. — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Most human beings, though in varying degrees, desire to control, not only their own lives but also the lives of others — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
... the desire for truth must take precedence over all other desires. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Happiness does not lie in getting people and things outside of you lined up exactly to suit your desires. — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. — Rumi Copy Share Image
The moment you say yes to acting on your desire is the real beginning. — Danielle LaPorte Copy Share Image
You will not see that desire begets love, until it all flames into one concise and metallic blaze. — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
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