“The promise of aspiration is that it is evolutionary. The human condition is such that we are always aspiring to be something… — Lorii Myers Copy Share Image
A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ask him why there are hypocrites in the world.' 'Because it is hard to bear the happiness of others.' 'When are we… — Vikram Chandra Copy Share Image
At the heart of our desires is eternal happiness without the slightest hint of misery. You could say that we are pleasure… — Terry Cole-Whittaker Copy Share Image
There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Coherence and closure are deep human desires that are presently unfashionable. But they are always both frightening and enchantingly desirable. "Falling in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But ever since the dawn of civilization, people have not been content to see events as unconnected and inexplicable. They have craved… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
We are all dropped into our lives on this planet with a limited amount of time and cosmic understanding, yet we know… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
The Christian who desires to follow Jesus carrying his cross must bear in mind that the name "Christian" means "learner or imitator… — Anthony Mary Claret Copy Share Image
“In consequence, when the pleasures have been removed which busy people derive from their actual activities, the mind cannot endure the house,… — Seneca Copy Share Image
Stay close by the door, if you desire all beauty And leave aside sleep, if you wish to arrive And make of… — Rabia Basri Copy Share Image
“Human life must be some kind of mistake. The truth of this will be sufficiently obvious if we only remember that man… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
When the devil looks at a man who sincerely desires not to sin, he is not so unintelligent as to suggest to… — Dorotheus of Gaza Copy Share Image
In Europe, the Enlightenment of the 18th century was seen as a battle against the desire of the Church to limit intellectual… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I believe that You, O Jesus, are in the most holy Sacrament. I love You and desire You. Come into my heart.… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
I cannot classify the other, for the other is, precisely, Unique, the singular Image which has miraculously come to correspond to the… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
The desire to express in an art form and to compose a tableau and vignette whether it's humorous, burlesque, or poetic comes… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
Inside me is the same desperate hope I have watching the ravenous dead and thinking, Oh please, oh please, oh please. The… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“The desire to lift, the willingness to help, and the graciousness to give come from a heart filled with love. The poet… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
“I want you, Hank. I'm much more of an animal than you think. I wanted you from the first moment I saw… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A tender young cork, however, would have had no more chance against a pair of corkscrews, or a tender young tooth against… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The desire to live life to its fullest, to acquire more knowledge, to abandon the economic treadmill, are all typical reactions to… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
For my heart is always with Him, day and night it thinks unceasingly of its heavenly and divine Friend, to whom it… — Elizabeth of the Trinity Copy Share Image
“Desire for goodness, Mister Reese, leads to earnestness. Earnestness in turn leads to sanctimonious self-righteousness, which breeds intolerance, upon which harsh judgment… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
There are times when personal experience keeps us from reaching the mountain top and so we let it go because the weight… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Idle, she writes, to imagine falling in love as a correspondence of minds, of thoughts,; it is a simultaneous firing of two… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterwards repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The government's assertion that it must be unhindered in protecting our security can camouflage the desire to increase Executive power, while the… — Richard Stengel Copy Share Image
“As we contemplate the enormous variety of factors that must come together to produce a specific sense of self, our attachment to… — Yongey Mingyur Copy Share Image
Both men and women are conceived as merely capable of response to a situation that their society has already defined for them… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
We've never had to confront a really nationalistic American government since the War of 1812. But if it ever happened, it would… — Robert Bothwell Copy Share Image
Grant that the idea of God is the most splendid single act of the creative human imagination, and that all his multiple… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
A shared choice movement sees the fetus as the genes of a woman and the genes of a man; the flesh of… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Keep the extent of your abilities unknown.The wise man does not allow his knowledge and abilities to be sounded to the bottom,… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Success in life could be defined as the continued expansion of happiness and the progressive realization of worthy goals. Success is the… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Either to die the death or to abjure For ever the society of men. Therefore, fair Hermia, question your desires; Know of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I'm doing this play right now, the new David Mamet play. It's called 'Race,' and it's very interesting how people really leave… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
According to theism, if a universe is to have any probability of existing, this probability is dependent upon God's beliefs, desires and… — Quentin Smith Copy Share Image
If you keep your attention in the body as much as possible, you will be anchored in the Now. You won't lose… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
