“The desire to be desire-less is but another desire. The thought that, because this desire purports to be spiritual, it is superior… — Joel Kramer Copy Share Image
“Briefly, then, life, to the pessimist, is a motiveless desire, a constant pain and continued struggle, followed by death, and so on,… — Edgar Saltus Copy Share Image
It's a glorious universe the positive thinkers have come up with, a vast, shimmering aurora borealis in which desires mingle freely with… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The desire of perfection became the ruling passion of their soul; and it is well known, that while reason embraces a cold… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Create a commited intention for yourself, and feed that intention with the passion and energy thats in your desire for change. Go… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
We continue to build temples. We desire that as many members as possible have an opportunity to attend the temple without having… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The wretched are in this respect fortunate, that they have the strongest yearning after happiness; and to desire is in some sense… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The fetish of the great university, of expensive colleges for young women, is too often simply a fetish. It is not based… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
If there are sound reasons or bases for the points you demand, then there is no need for violence. On the other… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Man is a spiritual being, a soul, and at some period of his life everyone is possessed with an irresistible desire to… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
“Find girl?” He had lost his desire to talk, but the intensity of his emotions drove the words forth. “What did he… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
He had by now divested himself of schoolboy attitudes. He was unburdened by the desire to be a martyr or a hero.… — Roland Huntford Copy Share Image
The realms of good fortune and calamity in human life are all made of thoughts and imaginings. Therefore Buddhists say that the… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Desire is insatiable not because the goods of the world are too few, too uniform, or too bland. Desire burns through the… — Wendy Farley Copy Share Image
Mind is a crowd of many desires; it is not a single desire. Mind is multi-psychic, and all the fragments are falling… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I definitely felt the desire to, like - I definitely knew there was an elsewhere. I definitely knew that, like, if I… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to be an actor. I've never planned on the acting and the stand-up feeding each other; they've always been… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
The magnitude of your achievements, your success and your triumphs solely depends on you; your attitude, your passion, your desire and your… — Ricardo Housham Copy Share Image
We love salt, fat and sugar. We're hard-wired to go for those flavors. They trip our dopamine networks, which are our craving… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Shameless actually good since it gives a kind of freedom. We consider the old, functionless shame destructive. Today, if you have a… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
In my heart, my first desire was to be a dancer. I always wanted to dance and I danced from the time… — Phyllis Smith Copy Share Image
Let us work without desire for name or fame or rule over others. Let us be free from the triple bonds of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
You are destined to reign in life. You are called by the Lord to be a success, to enjoy wealth, to enjoy… — Joseph Prince Copy Share Image
God's love means that our Creator desires to have a relationship with us. God's holiness prevents him from having fellowship with us… — Robert Jeffress Copy Share Image
You become what you think about and focus on the most. See yourself attracting the things you want to accomplish. Thoughts and… — Jonathan Toews Copy Share Image
People have told me to have sex when i feel the desire to, but right now i have no desire to pull… — Zac Hanson Copy Share Image
My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the… — Andrew Cuomo Copy Share Image
I had learned, from years of experience with men, that when a man really desires a thing so deeply that he is… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
What happens when a female writer invokes a female muse? Does something else happen? With Sappho's figures of desire, we have a… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Life purpose may be shifted from achieving a 'steady state' (an equilibrium between desires and plausibilities) to the excitement of running after… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer… — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
It is apparent that only a certain kind of person will want to make ethnographic films, It will, above all, be those… — Robert Gardner Copy Share Image
I don't have any desire to learn. I feel it's like a voodoo, that it would spoil things if I actually learnt… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
“Being passionately curious about things give us the desire to want to learn, to explore and to seek opportunities to set goals… — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image
Mind led body to the edge of the precipice. They stared in desire at the naked abyss. If you love me, said… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
“True psycho-emotional exploration, rooted in desire (what I call BioSpirituality), replaces metaphysical story telling with the real thing.” — Zzenn Copy Share Image
Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It is characteristic of the military mentality that non-human factors ... are held essential, while the human being, his desires and thoughts-in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
