A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The only enemy which stands between the talent you posses and success you achieve is known as EGO in our Society — Abhishek Shukla Copy Share Image
Because monks come from the midst of purity, they consider as good and pure what does not arouse desire among other people. — Dogen Copy Share Image
“All beings desire pleasure, a surcease of need or want, and there is no shame in that.” — Sherri L. King Copy Share Image
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Since all living beings are bound by their craving for existence, you must begin by finding the determination to be free. — Je Tsongkhapa Copy Share Image
Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I don't have any desire to be in a relationship with anyone else, and I do feel like I'm on the other… — David Berman Copy Share Image
“You know, That the only difference, Between, you n' I, Is the flavour, of choice, And the dimension, of thoughts, Through the… — Ashley Byrnes Copy Share Image
Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsibility and when it is a valid expression… — Helen Lynd Copy Share Image
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't understand it, how President Johnson can send troops to Vietnam and cannot send troops to Selma, Alabama, to protect people… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
I spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other day, until the desire to describe them became… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art-- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids… — John Keats Copy Share Image
The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake...… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“I was nothing but I became something which awfully makes me feel jubilant , again on the other hand , there are… — Ayaan Basu Copy Share Image
There's constant drama, and I'm busy, busy, but at the center of the madness is the desire to write, the need to… — Jillian Medoff Copy Share Image
It would send an unbelievably terrible signal to reformers across the region. It would say we've abandoned our desire to change the… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I think that people, despite my law enforcement background, view me as taking these consistently progressive stands, and I think that, philosophically,… — Eric Holder Copy Share Image
“Parnet: I want you to talk about desire. What is desire, exactly? Let's consider the question as simply as possible. When Anti-Oedipus...… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
“Despite the cold chill, she burned inside with a hunger she didn’t want to dismiss. Not tonight.” — Katherine McIntyre Copy Share Image
Whoever desires to purify his heart, then let him prefer Allah to his desires — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything. — Jacques Delors Copy Share Image
What if desire wasn't an urge to be tamed, but a beacon of truth to be followed? — Danielle LaPorte Copy Share Image
The one who has no control over his desires has no control over his mind. — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
To love anyone personally is bondage.Love all alike,then all desires fall off — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
What's powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It's seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the… — Patrick Swayze Copy Share Image
Poverty is rather a state of mind. No man who possess this mentality can outwardly command abundance. — Ore Abayomi Copy Share Image
Hanuman not only gives liberation, he also fulfills our beneficial desires. — Krishna Das Copy Share Image
The 'Always Keep the Faith' tattoo I have on the front represents my desire to protect my beliefs. — Jaejoong Copy Share Image
If doing what you want is something that you'll regret in the morning, then sleep in late. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One may even have ‘greed’ for self-respect. Greed gives rise to circumstances. When circumstance arises, worldly life arises.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Failure is just another chapter in life and death is just another volume — Kevin Knight Copy Share Image
Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
