Much of a poet's experience takes place in imagination only; the life he tells is oftenest the life that he strongly desires… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
Personally I don't spend much time thinking about being funny. For me it's always been just a way to get by, a… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
The truth is that my work - I was going to say my mission - is to shatter the faith of men… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
All things issue from it; all things return to it. To find the origin, trace back the manifestations. When you recognize the… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“I used to wish that I would just wake up one day and the bad feeling in my mind would be gone.… — Heather Anne Talpa Copy Share Image
The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Set aside all involvements and let the myriad things rest. Zazen is not thinking of good, not thinking of bad. It is… — Dogen Copy Share Image
I think desire gives us - imagination - as well as actually often we pay a terrible price for it. Women are… — Amber Hollibaugh Copy Share Image
The collaboration which sometimes follows is seldom based on good will: usually on desire, rage, fear, pity or longing. The modern illusion… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“I can discover within me no power of perception which is not glutted with its proper pleasure, yet I do not feel… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The Freedom which Christianity gives, is a Freedom from the Bondage of Sin and Satan, and from the Domination of Men's Lusts… — Edmund Gibson Copy Share Image
Think positive thoughts, intensely. Grow enthusiastic images, boldly. Speak only wonderful words to yourself, constantly. Feel fantastic, NOW! This colors your view… — Mark Victor Hansen Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to create a stand-in or avatar with whom the reader can identify, but separate, believable characters with distinct personalities;… — Jason Lutes Copy Share Image
Then again, you cannot stop the flood of desire as it moves through the world, inappropriate though it may sometimes be. It… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Our success as a global brand has been directly related to how we select locations where we are confident our particular clients… — Anthony Hitt Copy Share Image
The world may not applaud us for wiping running noses, driving in carpools, or talking with our teenager into the wee hours… — Carolyn Mahaney Copy Share Image
Over time we are able to undermine habitual modes of thinking formed by our self-made self in early childhood, which tries to… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
Vanity is a desire of personal glory, the wish to be appreciated, honoured, and run after, not because of one's personal qualities,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I have told the story I was asked to tell. I have closed it, as so many stories close, with a joining… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Providence creates an unfolding situation that is exactly what the person needs, although not always what he may think he wants or… — Z'ev ben Shimon Halevi Copy Share Image
There's no need for a response, and I don't expect one. I wish you the very best, and will continue to love… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In my small way, I preserved and catalogued, and dipped into the vast ocean of learning that awaited, knowing all the time… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
Jesus gives us the gift of the Holy Spirit, yet when the Spirit comes, He is loaded with packages! He desires to… — Jack W. Hayford Copy Share Image
I want neither a terrorist spirituality that keeps me in a perpetual state of fright about being in right relationship with my… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
One day I saw a picture of the Buddha on a Buddhist magazine and he was sitting on the grass, and he… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Women of the world today dress alike. They are like so many loaves of bread. To be beautiful one must be unhurried.… — Luisa Casati Copy Share Image
I surrender this rifle to you through my young son, whom I now desire to teach in this manner that he has… — Sitting Bull Copy Share Image
Maybe this is why I sleep only a few hours a month. I don't want to die again. This has become clearer… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
The beginning as well as the end of all his thoughts was hatred of human law, that hatred which, if it be… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe… Our… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
My ardent desire is, and my aim has been, to comply strictly with all our engagements, foreign and domestic, but to keep… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“Desires are very cunning and complex. You are frustrated, but not because of needs. You are frustrated because of desires. And if… — Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“The day of her long interview with Tietjens, amongst the amassed beauties of Macmaster furnishings, she marked in the calendar of her… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
“The obsessive desire for a passionate relationship is usually a reflection of a lack of love for oneself. The manic need to… — Brianna Wiest Copy Share Image
The prevailing idea seems to be, that I come to God and ask Him for something that I want, and that I… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
If Adam and Eve were not hunter-gatherers, then they were certainly gatherers. But, then, consumer desire, or self-embitterment, or the 'itch,' as… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Passions that come first are often treacherous and lead us astray. We must guard ourselves against them. In order to gratify them… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“But what do you think, my lady?' 'I think that she must be cruel if she wants to be loved,' Gertrude explained.… — Lisa Klein Copy Share Image
