Normativity, I believe, is very different from motivating force. Neither includes, or implies, the other. Other animals can be motivated by their… — Derek Parfit Copy Share Image
“This was what the poets couldn't put in their poetry, she thought dumbly, the rush of desire so fierce and pure it… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
Olympia thinks often about desire - desire that stops the breath, that causes a preoccupied pause in the midst of uttering a… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
For the Sensitive Plant has no bright flower; Radiance and odour are not its dower; It loves, even like Love, its deep… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I think the cultural task is to separate our impulses and needs and desires from the supernatural and, above all, from the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
When we become quiet and introduce our intentions into the field of pure potentiality, we harness the universe's infinite organizing power, which… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
So what do you desire to do? What do you really want to do as a person? You need to stop and… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
...there was cement in her soul. It had been there for a while, an early morning disease of fatigue, shapeless desires, brief… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Do you desire to be wholly one; always day and night in one another's company? For if this is what you desire,… — Plato Copy Share Image
It's easy for us to feel separate from other people and from other forms of life, especially if we don't have a… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Jesus designed the Lord's prayer to reveal His desire to give us more fully, graciously, and suitably the very things we most… — Bryan Chapell Copy Share Image
I am trying to represent design through drawing. I have always drawn things to a high degree of detail. That is not… — Neil Denari Copy Share Image
Suppose you could be hooked up to a hypothetical 'experience machine' that, for the rest of your life, would stimulate your brain… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
“While we’ve been grabbing for things to give meaning to life, we have lost our way. We grow addicted to reference points.… — Ana Rangel & Gerry O'malley Copy Share Image
Men's sexuality is mean and violent, and men so powerful that they can reach WITHIN women to fvck/construct us from the inside… — Judith Levine Copy Share Image
DUE TO OUR FEELINGS ARISING FROM CONTACT, we think and we rationalize, conceptualize, theorize, philosophize and speculate. Because of the feeling arising… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
My fear is that in our desire to remember George Floyd, the names of those who came before him will fade into… — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
There are men who do exist who have no desire for women. That doesn't necessarily mean they have an interest in men,… — Daayiee Abdullah Copy Share Image
Do not desire to hear about the misfortunes of those who oppose you. For those who listen to such speech later reap… — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
We must desire to be separated unto the Lord from the world and its evil system. We must reckon ourselves dead to… — Theodore Epp Copy Share Image
Greed will always leave you dissatisfied because you'll never be able to get everything you desire. Greed never allows you to think… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
I turn you out of doors tenant desire you pay no rent I turn you out of doors all my best rooms… — Alain Chartier Copy Share Image
The issue isn't, Am I good enough? No. The issue is, Do I not have any other choice? Will and desire don't… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
Those Who Are Slaves Of Desire, Are Slaves To The Whole World. But To Those For Whom Desire Itself Is A Slave,… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
'A Streetcar Named Desire' is the play I've probably read the most times in my life, and I love the weirdness of… — Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Some people are wish-blocked, knowing neither what they feel nor what they want. Without opinions, without impulses, without inclinations, they become parasites… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
I desire to have a dialogue that's positive, and communicative and moves forward, and is about something real, not just consumption. — Mike Vallely Copy Share Image
“Wisdom warns against desire, but there is power in wanting, power that can fuel the will and keep lit that precious torch,… — Eugene Utley Copy Share Image
Freaks are called freaks and are treated as they are treated – in the main, abominably – because they are human beings… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What I had to prove was that I had a dedication and a desire and a passion to do the work and… — Kim Weston Copy Share Image
Leave off that excessive desire of knowing; therein is found much distraction. There are many things the knowledge of which is of… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
“Whichever direction our [desires] pushes us, we must become more [concious] about continuously pulling in the [opposite] direction. Back to Center.” — Psixomaxaristw Copy Share Image
“It is a strange attitude, to view a woman merely as an object to be taken; to be so overwhelmed by the… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
What is in the Constitution is the burning desire and aspiration of all the people of Vietnam. So for the moment, we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This desire to fashion, to shape, a self and a life has all but gone from a contemporary culture whose emphasis, paradoxically… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
“...I knew he had something that so many of my other students were lacking... desire. Not just the desire to create because… — Darian North Copy Share Image
You know what happens to sex in marriage? Instead of inviting desire, you monitor it. Especially men: You let her sleep late,… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
[N]othing is less reliable than unchecked claims from political officials that their secret conduct is justified by National Security Threats and the… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
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