“A young man didn't bring flowers or chocolates to the woman he loved: He brought her stories from the wider world, where… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
It's when we're in pains and temptations that God desires us most. For those are times when the devil wants to take… — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
Properly understood, then, the desire to act justly derives in part from the desire to express most fully what we are or… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Each thing tends to move towards its own nature. I always desire happiness which is my true nature. My nature is never… — Adi Shankara Copy Share Image
Don't badger people without children into admitting the secret desire for children you're sure they have to you! Don't badger anyone! Leave… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
In Among the White Moon Faces, I wrote about my desire to be a writer as rooted in my obsessive hours of… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
This life is a hospital where every patient is possessed with the desire to change beds; one man would like to suffer… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant… — William Blake Copy Share Image
“I've wandered through the real world, and written myself through the darkness of the streets inside me. I see people walking through… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Find other women to make movies with that have a shared bottom line. I did that with my first film and found… — Meera Menon Copy Share Image
We were masters of nature, masters of the world. We had forgotten everything--death, fatigue, our natural needs. Stronger than cold or hunger,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
It must be so,-Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage- to know who we are and where we have… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
“Actively, we are motivated by the never-ending desires of the self. We are compelled to pursue whatever the self imagines will satisfy… — Dharma Publishing Copy Share Image
There is no thirst of the soul so consuming as the desire for pardon. The sense of its bestowal is the starting-point… — Charles Brent Copy Share Image
It is great good health to believe, as the Hindus do, that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world.… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
“Our desire for these things is insatiable, perhaps because they help to narrativize and streamline the chaos and absence of meaning.” — Ted Pigeon Copy Share Image
So there are five ways of knowing who will win. Those who know when to fight and when not to fight are… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It is not the pursuit of greater and greater states of happiness and bliss that leads to enlightenment, but the yearning for… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The history of society is the history of the inventive labors that man alter man, alter his desires, habits, outlook, relationships both… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
A man is seldom more manly than when he is what you call unmanned,--the source of his emotion is championship, pity, and… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
I support Alice Waters in her desire that there be a vegetable garden at the White House. I don't think they should… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
Space and silence are synonymous. Joy, fulfillment brings the silence. Desire brings noise. Silence is the cure, because in silence you come… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
The craving for colour is a natural necessity just as for water and fire. Colour is a raw material indispensable to life.… — Fernand Leger Copy Share Image
I think history is only ever invisible when it abets your sense of self, your desires, your ambitions, when it carries your… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I've been out to LA a couple of times but, over there, the Grenouille in me always comes to the surface. I… — Ben Whishaw Copy Share Image
No one is contented in this world, I believe. There is always something left to desire, and the last thing longed for… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
You start meditation as an average human being who is filled with vagueness and not much purpose or definition, who is controlled… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Trusting your intuition means tuning in as deeply as you can to the energy you feel, following that energy moment to moment,… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
Try to never say 'yes' on the phone; instead, say, 'I'll get back to you.' When you're actually speaking to someone, the… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Patronage is a very old phenomenon that's occurred in people and in society for thousands of years. It stems from an emotional… — Jack Conte Copy Share Image
Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty,… — Federica Montseny Copy Share Image
A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants 'success consciousness' which, in turn, creates… — Paul J. Meyer Copy Share Image
[Sigmund ] Freud assumes that every dream represents the satisfaction of adesire and in the last analysis, of a sexual desire that… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image