“Selfish needs, wants, and desires needed to be obliterated. Greed, overindulgence, and gluttony had to be expunged from human behavior. The solution… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting… — George Allen, Sr Copy Share Image
“This was not to say, however, that she did not long, at times, for some greater change, that she did not experience… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
An Italian philosopher said that "time was his estate"; an estate indeed which will produce nothing without cultivation, but will always abundantly… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
For those of us who want to have control over all our mental states, compatibilist substitutes - such as desiring what we… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
“Don't you see, gentlemen? Reason is a fine thing, there's no question about it, but reason is only reason and only satisfies… — Dostoyevsky Fyodor Copy Share Image
Our Father in Heaven loves all of His children and desires that they know and understand His plan of happiness. Therefore, He… — Carol F. McConkie Copy Share Image
We kissed, then, and the ardour of her kiss stole my breath away. I returned her passion with all the fervor I… — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
To those who say that they are Christian and gay, what we must keep in mind is that absent in that kind… — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image
“I have a burning desire—an inner flame that will not be extinguished by outer forces—to know and live from higher regions, to… — Wayne W. Dyer Copy Share Image
I've been inspired by films since I started dancing, and I'm married to a filmmaker, and I think it was one of… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
“Humans do not simply, innocently, and honestly disagree with each other about the good, the just, the right, the principles and applications… — Gregory B. Sadler Copy Share Image
“She grieved for her lost daughter and she grieved for herself. When Cicely uncovered the deception of her adoption, she uncovered a… — Ruth Francisco Copy Share Image
It's a very American trait, this wanting people to think well of us. It's a young want, and I am ashamed of… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Saddam Hussein is a risk-taking aggressor who has attacked four countries, used chemical weapons against his own people, professed a desire to… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires. It then worships such a freedom by enshrining it… — Ajahn Brahm Copy Share Image
We all start out with the same alphabet. We are all unique. Talent is not the most important thing --- discipline and… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
When I go to the movies, one of my strongest desires is to be shown something new. I want to go to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We are assured that the world is becoming more and more united, is being formed into brotherly communion, by the shortening of… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Successful men are influenced by the desire for pleasing results. Failures are influenced by the desire for pleasing methods and are inclined… — Albert L. Gray Copy Share Image
The desire to look strong and decisive, instead of looking human, is the fatal flaw of so many politicians, and I will… — Jess Phillips Copy Share Image
Communication within the couple includes the open, clear, and honest sharing of feelings, desires, thoughts, interests, and creative ideas. It is in… — John Friend Copy Share Image
The best part of a Mr. Goodbar is not the wrapper, is it? No, and the best part of a Coke is… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“I did not know I was on a search for passionate aliveness. I only knew I was lonely and lost and that… — Anne Hillman Copy Share Image
You, of all people, deserve a happy ending Despite everything that happened to you, you aren't bitter You aren't cold You've just… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There is a power under your control that is greater than poverty, greater than the lack of education, greater than all your… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
Never try to compel others to change; leave them free to change naturally and orderly because they want to; and they will… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
I never cook at home. After 15 hours at work, I don't have much of a desire to cook at home. I… — Ferran Adria Copy Share Image
No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling... The desire to grasp and be… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
“They strive to attain their wishes by every available means, instructing and compelling themselves to dishonest and difficult acts. And when their… — Seneca Copy Share Image
There is a quiet light that shines in every heart. It draws no attention to itself though it is always secretly there.… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Life, from beginning to end, is fear. Yes, it is pain, yes, it is desire, but more than anything it is fear;… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
It is part of the moral tragedy with which we are dealing that words like 'democracy,' 'freedom,' 'rights,' 'justice,' which have so… — Norman Angell Copy Share Image
“The great anxious focus on the minutiae of appetite—on calories and portion size and what's going into the body versus what's being… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
“Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone. From that point onwards, things change, the man and the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Till now, society has protected the adult and blamed the victim. It has been abetted in its blindness by theories, still in… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
The world cannot hold onto you, for the world is not sentient. The world doesn't have a mind nor does it have… — Mooji Copy Share Image
We treat desire as a problem to be solved, address what desire is for and focus on that something and how to… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Love cannot in its very nature be peaceful or content. It is a restlessness, an unsatisfaction. I can grant a lasting love… — Jack London Copy Share Image
The new architecture and urban design of segregation could be called Calvinist: they reflect a desire to live in a world of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
