“You burn to have your photograph in a tennis magazine.” “I’m afraid so.” “Why again exactly, now?” “I guess to be felt… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I wanted a metamorphosis, a change to fish, to leviathan, to destroyer. I wanted the earth to open up, to swallow everything… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Upon this first, and in one sense this sole, rule of reason, that in order to learn you must desire to learn,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have a sense that God is unfair and preferentially punishes his weak, his dumb, his fat, his lazy. I believe he… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
A thoroughly socialized person is one who desires only the rewards that others around him have agreed he should long for -… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
When a lot of athletes get done playing, they end up in some really tough positions. They have a hard time transitioning… — Aaron Kampman Copy Share Image
Prayer is a relationship; half the job is mine. If I want transformation, but can't even be bothered to articulate what, exactly,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
All transformation begins with an intense, burning desire to be transformed. The first step in the 'renewing of the mind' is desire.… — Neville Goddard Copy Share Image
St. Francis Borgia says that he who desires to consecrate himself to God must, in the first place, trample under his feet… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
Despite what you've been conditioned to believe, sexual desire is sacred and virtuous. When you and your beloved merge physically and emotionally,… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“For men an orgasm is a relief,” I said, and then decided to explain. “Imagine an ache – some kind of a… — Jason Luke Copy Share Image
Abortion is green! I think its irrefutable, but people don't want to hear that. For most people, having children is an instinctual,… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
It is a human circumstance that when we are born we have not yet come into existence. We are lured into our… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
People always ask, "How do you get in the mind of the teen reader?" I think all human beings have these common… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“The friendship of two young people,' says Goethe somewhere, 'is delightful when the girl likes to learn and the boy to teach.'… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
I knock unbidden once at every gate-- If sleeping, wake--if feasting, rise before I turn away--it is the hour of fate, And… — John James Ingalls Copy Share Image
“The one whose every kind of beggary is gone is given all the rules in his hands. But beggary does not go… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
My interest in photography did not begin with books or mentors, or with any burning desire to see the world through a… — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
For every genuine desire/need/want you thrust out into the universe - some are going to help you achieve you goals whilst others… — Unkown Copy Share Image
I think that's always the hope - I mean, I can't speak for others, but I think other artists, no matter what… — Beth Hart Copy Share Image
If writing is language and language is desire and longing and suffering . . . then why when we write, when we… — Carole Maso Copy Share Image
“As meditation deepens, compulsions, cravings, and fits of emotions begin to lose their power to dictate our behavior. We see clearly that… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
Karma is experience, and experience creates memory, and memory creates imagination and desire, and desire creates karma again. If I buy a… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The more he identifies with the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own life and his own desires. The… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
My blood rose, mixing with my lingering fear of the unknown to drive her to a fever pitch. Her lips touched my… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
Thomas reached out and took my hand, turned it palm up, and said, "I believe that's healing very nicely." Aunt Charlotte opened… — Caroline Stevermer Copy Share Image
What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
Firekeeper still could not understand the human penchant for eating in company. Even less so, she could not understand the human desire… — Jane Lindskold Copy Share Image
The world that we must seek is a world in which the creative spirit is alive, in which life is an adventure… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Desire animates the world. It is present in the baby crying for milk, the girl struggling to solve a math problem, the… — William Braxton Irvine Copy Share Image
There's no automatic mechanism in a market system that reconciles the desire to save and the desire to invest. And therefore, the… — Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky Copy Share Image
“Sometimes what we desire the most can change who we are, and it’s up to us to decide if that’s for better… — Dannika Dark Copy Share Image
Moral conduct includes every thing in which men are active and for which they are accountable. They are active in their desires,… — Nathanael Emmons Copy Share Image
From the tower battlements, Dustfinger looked down on a lake as black as night, where the reflection of the castle swam in… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
If we could sufficiently understand the order of the universe, we should find that it exceeds all the desires of the wisest… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
“Four Day’s Four Night’s My desire her eyes Her attention my life I claim she refuses..! In the passion of hope I… — Rocky13 Copy Share Image
It is not love that is to blame. But each of us has resistance to the very love we desire. We also… — Gay Hendricks Copy Share Image
A warlike nation like the Germans, without either cities, letters, arts, or money, found some compensation for this savage state in the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Deliver me, O Jesus, From the desire of being loved, From the desire of being extolled, From the desire of being honored,… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
A woman was and is one of God's most magnificent creations. As a matter of fact, she was His grand finale. After… — Sharon Jaynes Copy Share Image