“But the problem with me was that as soon as I started thinking about getting it together, I got this mad craving… — Rebecca Godfrey Copy Share Image
Those desires that do not bring pain if they are not satisfied are not necessary; and they are easily thrust aside whenever… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
“This desire for “something beyond” does not empty the real world, but actually gives it new depths. “He does not despise real… — Joe Rigney Copy Share Image
My personal challenge as an artist has been having a day job which is intellectually satisfying and fun - and thus can… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
The condition of humankind is not good, in the sense that the illusory prisons we create for ourselves through our desires and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Happiness is self-generated as the mind becomes still. As we become involved with the desires of the world, we lose that centering,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The great desire of this age is for a doctrine which may serve to condense our knowledge, guide our researches, and shape… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
“In the end, it seems to me that forgiveness may be the only realistic antidote we are offered in love, to combat… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
It's the artist's duty to have an artist's life, somehow to obtain time and freedom and then to muster the desire and… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
“But all of these hours were strained by fear, as if fear were a brooding specter, or a strange, lost bird trapped… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
Women, I believe, search for fellow beings who have faced similar struggles, conveyed them in ways a reader can transform into her… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
“she’d never experienced for Chandler the kind of feeling a woman should have for a man she thought about marrying, that breathless… — Elizabeth Bevarly Copy Share Image
“I wish you wouldn't have given the sundial bracelet to Terease" "Why?" I question and press my head onto his chest, pushing… — Michelle Warren Copy Share Image
“In Kant’s description, ethical duty functions like a foreign traumatic intruder that from the outside disturbs the subject’s homeostatic balance, its unbearable… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it takes away… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
The thing I like the most about Sachin is his intensity. After being in the game for so long, he still has… — Sourav Ganguly Copy Share Image
Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I just want people to get lost in the story and at the end kind of sag and say, 'That was fun.'… — Michael Palmer Copy Share Image
Ordinary love is selfish, darkly rooted in desires and satisfactions. Divine love is without condition, without boundary, without change. The flux of… — Sri Yukteswar Giri Copy Share Image
I am tired of the misrepresentation, calumny and detraction, heaped upon me by wicked men; and desire and claim, only those principles… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
I decided to sing again after settling in Newark in 1982. I had a burning desire to sing and lots of encouragement… — Jimmy Scott Copy Share Image
However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Champions are not generated from the championship. Champion is generated from something they have in them, desires, dreams, and visions. — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
The highest point of music for me is to become in a place where there is no desire, no craving, wanting to… — Terry Riley Copy Share Image
When you're on film or TV, essentially you're in front of the camera. Unless it's a Tim Burton thing, the desire is… — Thomas Middleditch Copy Share Image
The smart guy will outsmart himself. The lucky guy will run out of luck. The money guy will never have the desire.… — Bill Smith Copy Share Image
Some people never come clean, I think you know what I mean. You're walking a wire between pain and desire, and looking… — The Eagles Copy Share Image
“Lose myself in your blueberry eyes Magnolia, kiss your mauve lips of grapes, squeeze your fleshy, milky macaroon breasts,smell your opium breath… — Laura Gentile Copy Share Image
What we called love down there was mostly the craving to be loved. In the main I loved you for my own… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If you make provision for the desires of the flesh and bear a grudge against your neighbor on account of something transitory,… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Closeness to animals creates the desire to understand them, and not just a little piece of them, but the whole animal. It… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
“Fire like fear, like panic, like one more minute of this and I'll die if he doesn't knock at my door, but… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
After Euro 2012, I had very little holiday and almost no desire to play football. I was slipping into depression, from all… — Mats Hummels Copy Share Image
“Desire is the actual essence of man, in so far as it is conceived, as determined to a particular activity by some… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter how many pairs of shoes you have, how many cars you have, etc… It's all utterly meaningless and yet… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
When your desires drop, the world is there, but it is a totally new world. It is so fresh, it is so… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Eccojams are a very simple exercise where I just take music I like, and I loop up a segment, slow it down,… — Oneohtrix Point Never Copy Share Image
“It is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
