In my desire to distance myself from sadistic Christians who revel in the idea of wrath and punishment, I may have crossed… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
Living consciously is seeking to be aware of everything that bears on our interests, actions, values, purposes, and goals. It is the… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Sex as desired by the class that dominates women is held by that class to be elemental, urgent, necessary, even if or… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
If I was going to make a broad generalisation, I'd say that I prefer the company of women. People know now that… — Saffron Burrows Copy Share Image
For my part, the thing I would wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security. But what the typical modern… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Beauty—or the desire to be beautiful—is in itself a dangerous motivation. Someone (I forgot who) once said, ‘Does the person who loves… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
You know how it is to want something. Desire builds like a little house in your head and it sits there, half-constructed… — Deb Olin Unferth Copy Share Image
Jesus has many lovers of His kingdom of heaven, but he has few bearers of His Cross. Many desire His consolation, but… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as definitive and has as its highest value one's… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Hunting for malware requires highly specialized knowledge of the intricacies of the domain name system - the protocol that allows us to… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
... he felt himself to be one of them, who can live neither in the world nor out of it. They are… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
You never quite know what you're going to come back to and figure out how to make it work. You never quite… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
Buddhism doesn't promise to fulfill our desires. Instead it says, 'You feel unfulfilled? That's okay. That's normal. Everybody feels unfulfilled. You will… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
“Why didn't you write all this time? Did you not remember us in a song? A dance? In the skies littered with… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Christian desire is always excessive, generous beyond what is asked. It is a desire not to consume the other, but to let… — Graham Ward Copy Share Image
Nothing excites men's curiosity so much as Mystery, concealing things which they desire to know; and nothing so much increases curiosity as… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
“Why the desire for death. A clean paper or pure white wall. One false line, a scratch, a mistake. Unerasable. So obscureby… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
“We become attached to each pleasant thought, feeling, taste, smell, and sound. But because everything is impermanent, we’re craving and clinging to… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
If one's life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Here was a man who wanted what no one had wanted before: he wanted to get to know the inner workings of… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
Learn to master yourself-to understand both your fears and your desires. That's the key to magic. Then, no one shall have any… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I definitely make an effort to work on different styles of music: not working on too many post-rock bands, or too many… — John Congleton Copy Share Image
The moment a mere numerical superiority by either states or voters in this country proceeds to ignore the needs and desires of… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Our slightest desire, though unique as a chord, nevertheless includes the fundamental notes on which the whole of our life is built.… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We must then build a proper relationship between the richest and the poorest countries based on our desire that they are able… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
The churches had left me cold, but I thought there's got to be a God. I remember going out, this is in… — Goswami Kriyananda Copy Share Image
And shall I pray Thee change Thy will, my Father, Until it be according unto mine? But, no, Lord, no, that never… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
London is one of the world's centres of Arab journalism and political activism. The failure of left and right, the establishment and… — Nick Cohen Copy Share Image
Modern brain-scan technology has revealed that each person shapes a completely unique brain. Other studies have documented the amazing regenerative ability of… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“Gautama’s insight was that no matter what the mind experiences, it usually reacts with craving, and craving always involves dissatisfaction. When the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The Alexander Technique gives us all things we have been looking for in a system of physical education: relief from strain due… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Vane held the reins of his desire in a grip of iron and refused to let his demons loose. Deep, primal instincts… — Stephanie Laurens Copy Share Image
“I could feel his whole body trying to claim me, want me, own me in lust, and it made me feel so… — Fiona Thrust Copy Share Image
Little-boy love...the cleanest pain I've ever known. Love without desire, conditions, or limits - a pure and radiant glow in the heart… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
God desires and is pleased to communicate with us through the avenues of our minds, our wills, and our emotions. The continuous… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Maybe there's a sense that technology isn't necessarily the answer to a lot of our problems. Fantasy offers readers a less radically… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
My poems are certainly in the lyric tradition, but perhaps a reader can tell me more precisely who I am as a… — Connie Wanek Copy Share Image
“I want to feel the same powerful, nameless urge that I used to feel when I turned to my books. The breath… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
The usual reproach against the essay, that it is fragmentary and random, itself assumes the givenness of totality and suggests that man… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
“Here we are, at the place where I get to beg for it. Where I get to say ‘Please, for just one… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
