“When life hasn’t got a swing anymore, people may give in to obsessive oniomaniac compulsions, in as much as they are going… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
The question I ask myself is: have I really just become a squeamish middle-aged man, or has something happened to the horror… — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
I don't put pictures of my children on, rarely, I think I've done it twice? I'm thoughtful about that, because I don't… — Sarah Jessica Parker Copy Share Image
Oh, if you only knew what joy, what sweetness awaits a righteous soul in Heaven! You would decide in this mortal life… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
The good news is that by the second year, those cravings were about as half as frequent, and by the third year,… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
Eros is an issue of boundaries. He exists because certain boundaries do. In the interval between reach and grasp, between glance and… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
The mind is a machine that is constantly asking: What would I prefer? Close your eyes, refuse to move, and watch what… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Tiny bolts of lightning struck wherever Hana's skin touched Keishin's and sent a current through her veins. She had cradled countless bright,… — Samantha Sotto Yambao Copy Share Image
What do we want? What would we be at? What do our souls desire? Is it not that we might have a… — John Owen Copy Share Image
A person who believes, as she did, that things fit: that there is a whole of which one is a part, and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
A man, at least, is free; he can explore every passion, every land, overcome obstacles, taste the most distant pleasures. But a… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Nothing, not even the best and noblest, can go on as it now is. Nothing, not even what is lowest and most… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most of us yearn for really intimate, healthy, in-person relationships. People have a deep desire to be understood, to be told that… — Ze Frank Copy Share Image
“But as soon as our tongues collided, the sparks, the dizziness, and the butterflies all made sense. He made sense. We made… — Danielle Allen Copy Share Image
Without love, loyalty, desires, passion, courage, dignities, faith, beliefs and all the other ingredients that go into making the human soul something… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“We are drawn towards a thing, either because there is some good we are seeking from it, or because we cannot do… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I've always had a desire to be provocative and to make people think, but it wouldn't be any challenge for me just… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
“... deep inside you was a frantic longing to be something or someone other than you are. It is the greatest scourge… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
I believe that creativity is a product of intelligence. I don't believe that creative work can be produced by fools, dullards, or… — Bruce Barnbaum Copy Share Image
It is the Late city that first defies the land, contradicts Nature in the lines of its silhouette, denies all Nature. It… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
“The primitive craving for survival is universal in all things capable of dying. Now imagine if you could isolate the basic element… — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko Copy Share Image
I think in our time, you know, so much of the information we get is pre-polarized. Fiction has a way of reminding… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“With Jesus, if we want to gain, we must give up. If we want to be filled, we must deny ourselves. If… — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger, or more intelligent than… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Stop entertaining two faced people. You know the ones who have split personalities and untrustworthy habits. Nine times out of ten if… — Amaka Imani Nkosazana Copy Share Image
What does the Earth Desire? I will put it in just a few short sentences... To be admired in her loveliness, To… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
...Desire, a function central to all human experience, is the desire for nothing nameable. And at the same time this desire lies… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
“[T]he relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios--the overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's own prejudices,… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
I want to see Christianity enhance our humanity instead of rescue us from some fall. I don't want us to be depending… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
There is no end to the good we can do, to the influence we can have with others. Let us not dwell… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“People, walking on the catwalk of indifference and evaporating in a bubble of apathy, may be unconscious of the decay of their… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
In fact, if you read what Kant has to say about feeling, desire and emotion, you see that he is not at… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
SETH said: There is nothing more stimulating, more worthy of actualization, than the desire to change the world for the better. That… — Jane Roberts Copy Share Image
The dialectical or ecological approach asserts that creating the world is involved in our every act. It is impossible for us to… — Wes Jackson Copy Share Image
There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
The thing I can't figure out is why I have an undeniable compulsion to clean public spaces, airplane bathrooms, restaurant flatware, hotel… — Rachel Nichols Copy Share Image
Because no one has the right to deny another their life, even though they disagree with it, because everyone has the right… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wonder how much of these debates have to do with the desire, the legitimate desire, for that history to be… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
![“Nothing, not even the best and noblest, can go on as it now is. Nothing, not even what is lowest and most bestial, will not be raised again if it submits to death. It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. Flesh and blood cannot come to the Mountains [heaven]. Not because they are…” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ba6/anonymous-1_arise_nothing-not-even-the-best-and-noblest-ca_27244.jpg)
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