Man is not, like the animals, an obsequious puppet of instincts and sensual impulses. Man has the power to suppress instinctive desires,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed and when I'm writing, there are no bees to sting me… — John Green Copy Share Image
I am no lover of pompous title, but only desire that my name may be recorded in a line or two, which… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
Heartbreak is when you're just far enough away from what you desire that you can feel it. Change is the Pangaea moment.… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
Although all of us desire happiness, few of us reach that goal because of the seemingly endless cycle of expectation and disappointment. — Tarthang Tulku Copy Share Image
the desire to enforce our own moral and spiritual criteria upon posterity is quite as strong as the desire to enforce them… — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
“When an individual trusts another sufficiently to expose the true self--the deepest fears, the hidden desires--a powerful intimacy is born.” — Sarah Pekkanen Copy Share Image
Never give up prayer, and should you find dryness and difficulty, persevere in it for this very reason. God often desires to… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
When a warrior is present and awake to all that she is, she is able to take on any challenge, any project,… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
Erotic acts are instinctive; they fulfill a role in nature. The idea is familiar, but it is one that contains a paradox:… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
When the printing press was invented, it was inspired by the desire to make the Bible accessible to everyone. Today, people of… — Jay Moore Copy Share Image
“Limiting one’s desires actually helps to cure one of fear. ‘Cease to hope … and you will cease to fear.’ … Widely… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“Having her in my arms feels like coming home. I am not one to believe in all that love at first sight… — Harper Sloan Copy Share Image
I think every revolutionary act is an act of love. Every song that I've written, it is because of my desire to… — Zack de la Rocha Copy Share Image
Had Allah lifted the veil for his slave and shown him how He handles his affairs for him, and how Allah is… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
Writing can flow out when I'm feeling something strongly, whether that's joy, pain, fear, desire or anything else. The challenge is actually… — Anoushka Shankar Copy Share Image
“anxiety to become good enough for Johan Cruyff to notice us cannot be put into words. Without that desire, none of us… — Guillem Balague Copy Share Image
The medievalist has the capacity, and the desire, to harmonize. He believes the planets sing in harmony; why cannot technology also sing? — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
After the demands of the ego and its greed surrendered, the struggle for fulfillment of personal desires lessens; life takes on a… — Sivananda Radha Saraswati Copy Share Image
There are some who become spies for money, or out of vanity and megalomania, or out of ambition, or out of a… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
My magic. That was at the heart of me. It was a manifestation of what I believed, what I lived. It came… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“I’m disappointed that mine was not the first face he saw when he woke, but he sees it now. His features register… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I also have that desire to blurt stuff out, but I've learned I can't do that. Not when you realise the whole… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Then is what you see through this window onto the world so lovely that you have no desire whatsoever to look out… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
Drawing never dies, it holds on by the skin of its teeth, because the hunger it satisfies – the desire for an… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
Under slavery, families were ripped apart, and it was a desire of black men and black women to be together with their… — Derrick Grayson Copy Share Image
Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“Pride, desire, compassion, cleverness, belligerence, fruitfulness, loyalty… and guilt. But above it all stands love. And if we desire to be more… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
At one point, I animated villains in our stories, a bear or a giant, then on The Little Mermaid Ariel just called… — Glen Keane Copy Share Image
“I want to know what passion is,' he said. 'I want to feel something strongly. We are all grown-up intellectually and during… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
we usually think of ourselves as sitting the driver's seat, with ultimate control over the decisions we made and the direction our… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
We must recognize that all beings want the same thing we want. This is the way to achieve a true understanding, unfettered… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Self-body hate, like any hate or other strong negative emotion, contributes to unneeded weight gain by triggering junk-food cravings. — M.J. Rose Copy Share Image
I find the Romantic period extraordinarily interesting. My landscapes have connections with Romanticism: at times I feel a real desire for, an… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A half-century before Madonna, Gypsy [Rose Lee] understood how to make performance out of desire, how to exploit the very human and… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
![“Limiting one’s desires actually helps to cure one of fear. ‘Cease to hope … and you will cease to fear.’ … Widely different [as fear and hope] are, the two of them march in unison like a prisoner and the escort he is handcuffed to. Fear keeps pace with hope … both belong to a mind in suspense, to…” quote by Lucius Annaeus Seneca](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/871/lucius-annaeus-seneca-3079_anxiety_limiting-one-s-desires-actually-helps-to_1947045.jpg)
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