O Lord, Thou knowest that which is best for us; let this or that be done, as Thou shalt please. Give what… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
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I think honestly, SOME people who think they’re gay, they’re confused. People can misconstrue closeness for love. People can feel connected, they… — Stevie Wonder Copy Share Image
“We need to remember our intention is a germinating seed lying beneath the surface of our life. We have to keep nurturing… — Jeanne McElvaney Copy Share Image
I think there is a contempt for the human dignity of people who were enslaved. You couldn't see them as fully human… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
To an American, that which deprives him of his freedom he regards as injustice, and that which allows him to enjoy that… — Ndabaningi Sithole Copy Share Image
...it is only when a man goes out into the world with the thought that there are heroisms all round him, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to commune with the spirit of the universe, to be intoxicated with the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Gratitude is the creative force, the mother and father of love. It is in gratitude that real love exists. Love expands only… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that without knowledge of literature pure theology cannot at all endure. . . . When letters have declined and… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
After the bare requisites to living and reproducing, man wants most to leave some record of himself, a proof, perhaps, that he… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
By maintaining our attention on what's going on within others, we offer them a chance to fully explore and express their interior… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“Ladies, I think I speak for the majority of us on the face of the planet when I say we all have… — Kellie Hart Copy Share Image
Greed and desire Not peace, but fire Coveting creation Created damnation Pulled alongside A gate thrown too wide Now our home calls… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
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Darken your room, shut the door, empty your mind. Yet you are still in great company - the Numen and your Genius… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
“One late winter afternoon in Oxford Street, amid the noise of vehicles and voices that filled that dusky thoroughfare, as I was… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
“Each one, in my impassioned interior conversations, granted me some aspect of my most dearly held, most fiercely hidden heart’s desires. Life,… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“Ruth said, "Love isn't just wanting another person the way you want to own an object you see in a store. That's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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The noblest relationship is marriage, that is, love. Its nobility resides in its altruism, the desire to serve another beyond all the… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
Why is discipline important? Discipline teaches us to operate by principle rather than desire. Saying no to our impulses (even the ones… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
André Bazin wrote that art emerged from our desire to counter the passage of time and the inevitable decay it brings. But… — Manohla Dargis Copy Share Image
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“I believe this is so and I'm prepared to vouch for it, because it seems to me that the meaning of man's… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I believe in empathy. I believe in the kind of empathy that is created through imagination and through intimate, personal relationships. I… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“I am the woman at the water’s edge, offering you oranges for the peeling, knife glistening in the sun. This is the… — Shara McCallum Copy Share Image
No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention… — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
It is often falsely assumed, even by feminists, that sexuality is the enemy of the female who really wants to develop these… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Believing that navel-gazing in and of itself can transform itself into something that means something for society. I mean, we are communicative… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
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Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
What I fear and desire most in this world is passion. I fear it because it promises to be spontaneous, out of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The object of their desire, the “essential” core of life, is something called authenticity, and finding the authentic has become the foremost… — Andrew Potter Copy Share Image
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As the end of the what is called the 'sexual life' the only love which has lasted is the love which has… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them. We… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In my childhood, and particularly when I take the responsibility, I already have sort of keen desire, we must change our system.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image