To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have either one. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Define your desire as plan and make all efforts to take it shape as action. — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
“transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation and desire into undertaking.” — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
It's nice to watch great acts perform their material. But I can't say that it tweaks any desire within. — Andrew Ridgeley Copy Share Image
“Your feelings are the utmost priority, your desires are more important than anyone else's deadline or mandate.” — Regena Thomashauer Copy Share Image
Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie, And young affection gapes to be his heir; That fair for which love groan'd… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Let us cleave... to those who cultivate peace with godliness, and not to those who hypocritically profess to desire it. For the… — Pope Clement I Copy Share Image
The Zen philosophy posits that 'human beings suffer' and 'the cause of suffering is desire.' The way to put an end to… — Karl Albrecht Copy Share Image
“Someone who knows his desires and works with purpose to achieve them is a person whose feelings, thoughts, and actions are congruent… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
I could not of any, no I was not, where to roost anywhere | anywhere, not dark like my heart, my desires… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...it is how a person goes about quenching his desires or living with them unrequited that the readers get a glimpse of… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
Sometimes desire is air, sometimes desire is liquid. And every now and then, when everything else is air and liquid, desire solidifies,… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Anybody can wish for riches, and most people do, but only a few know that a definite plan, plus a burning desire… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Much of a poet's experience takes place in imagination only; the life he tells is oftenest the life that he strongly desires… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
The truth is that my work - I was going to say my mission - is to shatter the faith of men… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
Personally I don't spend much time thinking about being funny. For me it's always been just a way to get by, a… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
Love cannot in its very nature be peaceful or content. It is a restlessness, an unsatisfaction. I can grant a lasting love… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Till now, society has protected the adult and blamed the victim. It has been abetted in its blindness by theories, still in… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
The world cannot hold onto you, for the world is not sentient. The world doesn't have a mind nor does it have… — Mooji Copy Share Image
We treat desire as a problem to be solved, address what desire is for and focus on that something and how to… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone. From that point onwards, things change, the man and the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I live by the spirit so I don't gratify all them old sinful desires that never satisfy. — LeCrae Copy Share Image
If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
In a dark time, the eye begins to see / I meet my shadow in the deepening shade...Dark, dark my light, and… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
Life seems to b boring when you hav everything you 'Wanted' But,Life is more wonderful when it is loaded with 'Desires' — Tabassum Copy Share Image
An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There was never a burning desire to be a top actress in the first place. I happily gave up my career to… — Namrata Shirodkar Copy Share Image
I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked. — Randy Schekman Copy Share Image
It's important to only think about what you desire, not what you fear. — Doreen Virtue Copy Share Image
Things don't always go the way you want it to but you might as well make the best out of it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is always hard to believe that the will to change something does not produce an immediate change. — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
“God hears and sees you. He knows your deepest desires, and wants to fulfill them. But sometimes we just have to be… — Chloe M. Gooden Copy Share Image
Federer can be the best ever; he has the potential. The only question is whether he has the desire — Richard Krajicek Copy Share Image
“The desire is so strong, the pleasure so infinite, I find it difficult to breathe.” — Megan Keith Copy Share Image
The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression. — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
“He looked at me like I was the stars when all I’d ever felt like was the dark nothingness between them.” — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
“There are times that you have many cravings but you don't have any money.” — Roque Cole Copy Share Image
