“Look deep into your heart, Gentle Reader. Deep, deep, deep; past your desire for true love, for inexhaustible riches or uncontested sexual… — Cintra Wilson Copy Share Image
“About some books we feel that our reluctance to return to them is the true measure of our admiration. It is hard… — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
Christ said: Blessed are the peace-makers, not blessed are the peace-sayers. If the world fell into the hands of totalitarian factions, there… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I can tell in two minutes if I should hire someone in the kitchen. Two minutes. It's his desire. It's that open-eyed,… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
When we think carefully, we see that the brief elation we experience when appeasing sensual impulses may not be very different from… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“How did you know it was love and not just desire?” “Of all my children, you’ve always asked the most difficult questions.”… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
My desires are foolish. The things I want are better kept to myself. The hand of silence is steady. The hard blade… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“Amazing sex stays with you. It soaks into your skin. It floats through your dreams and has you silently smoldering with delicious… — Roberto Hogue Copy Share Image
“A girl's desire is like a pretty butterfly. And a man's desire is like a butterfly net. His desire captures and kills… — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
We desire peace. However, if imperialism insists on fighting a war, we will have no alternative but to take the firm resolution… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Sad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life that he is living, with the… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
I felt an unrelenting restlessness. It was the first time I had ever experienced jealousy, and that emotion clung to my skin… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Disregard appearances, conditions, in fact all evidence of your senses that deny the fulfillment of your desire. Rest in the assumption that… — Neville Goddard Copy Share Image
“There is a simple fidelity to the moment that we experience through hygge. ...we adjust our surroundings to guide our energy and… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
“Never chase a person, because if they want to be in your life, they will. It amazes me how people go out… — Amaka Imani Nkosazana Copy Share Image
“Only occasionally can you glimpse through the embrasures of an otherwise perfectly polite person to see the cannons aimed out, only in… — Michael Paterniti Copy Share Image
As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great… — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
Everyone has some natural talent or aptitude in one or more areas. If you can identify those areas you not only will… — Dave Ramsey Copy Share Image
The true leader serves. Serves people. Serves their best interests, and in doing so will not always be popular, may not always… — Eugene Habecker Copy Share Image
On one level my sense of despair had been dispelled by therapy, yet on another it had not been replaced by either… — Anthony Loyd Copy Share Image
I am not saying that you should renounce things, that you should escape from your home and renounce the marketplace. No, don't… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Every trial a man goes through, if he is faithful in that trial and does honor to God and his religion he… — Lorenzo Snow Copy Share Image
There are people who, on meeting a successful rival, no matter in what, are at once disposed to turn their backs on… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In the English language the word lust has a very bad and unfounded reputation. Although, (in reality) this wonderful cerebral cortex induced… — Johnny Luckett Copy Share Image
Henke sensed her terrifying aptitude for destruction as never before. Henke had feared for her sanity; now she knew the truth was… — David Weber Copy Share Image
In the East we call this state meditation: no belief, no thought, no desire, no prejudice, no conditioning - in fact, no… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To abandon the struggle for private happiness, to expel all eagerness of temporary desire, to burn with passion for eternal things-this is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
So many sins against the poor cry out to high heaven! One of the most deadly sins is to deprive the laborer… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
“A bulimic person's shame may lead her to try to hide not only her eating-disorder behaviors but also her basic needs and… — Sheila M. Reindl Copy Share Image
Maxims in times of danger are useless, experience is incommunicable. The knotted strands of life, desire, assumptions, and moral codes cannot be… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Dorothy was in that state human beings passed through at the beginning of a love affair, in which they desire to say… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Pride had a very similar character with Lust. He was difficult to satisfy, but rather than desiring tasty foods, Pride desired valuable… — Stephen and Tiffany Domena Copy Share Image
“…suffering can be a work of art. It can be made of buried and rising things, helpless and undiscovered, song of frustrated… — Lydia Millet Copy Share Image
“She remembered how, as a young man, she had insisted that women must be obedient, chaste, scented, and exquisitely apparelled. "Now I… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I don't think any of my desires or beliefs or other mental states are external to me. Many people will occasionally feel… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
“I wanted love and goodness in this which is living death,' I said. 'It was impossible from the beginning, because you cannot… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Through the round of many births I roamed without reward, without rest, seeking the house-builder. Painful is birth again & again. House-builder,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
On a long flight, after periods of crisis and many hours of fatigue, mind and body may become disunited until at times… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
It is not understood that before life an individual decides to live. A self is not simply the accidental personification of the… — Seth Copy Share Image
