“Beyond imagination and insight, the most important component of talent is perseverance—the will to write and rewrite in pursuit of perfection. Therefore,… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
The delight we take in our senses is an implicit desire to know the ultimate reason for things, the highest cause. The… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
As the beautiful does not exist for the artist and poet alone—though these can find in it more poignant depths of meaning… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
“The will has no overall purpose, aims at no highest good, and can never be satisfied. Although it is our essence, it… — Christopher Janaway Copy Share Image
It is rather the nature of America - our freewheeling, outspoken, prosperous, liberty-loving citizens extend equality to women, homosexuals, minorities, and almost… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
The life of a thinking man will probably be divided into two parts -- the first in which he desires to exterminate… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If you have really experienced the inner light, sex will disappear. Love will happen to you, but sex will disappear; sexuality will… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
No earthly pleasures, no kingdoms of this world can benefit me in any way. I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power… — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
Dreams burst like bubbles in the wind. But change takes time.When people fall in love and lose the overwhelming desire for it… — Marianne Fredriksson Copy Share Image
“[L]ife is a phenomenon in need of criticism, for we are, as fallen creatures, in permanent danger of worshipping false gods, of… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Let me leave you with this thought, written by my father before he died. If you incorporate it into your system of… — James C. Dobson Copy Share Image
The desire to do different things was the main motivator that made me leave late night because I'd been there seven years.… — Andy Richter Copy Share Image
Physically it's kind of lassitude, the apathy and tiredness that precedes the flu or some other illness, or death. My legs ache… — Antonio Lobo Antunes Copy Share Image
Now the bright morning-star, Day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the East, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green… — John Milton Copy Share Image
How would you describe the spiritual aroma of your home? The source of this aroma is the relationship between husband and wife.… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
Vanity, or to call it by a gentler name, the desire of admiration and applause, is, perhaps, the most universal principle of… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
There is no desire that anyone holds for any other reason than that they believe they will feel better in the achievement… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
The State is a collection of officials, different for difference purposes, drawing comfortable incomes so long as the status quo is preserved.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
This gentleman has taken on the very fashionable theme of fighting corruption and I say again: In order to fight corruption you… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“Let’s face it. We’re undone by each other. And if we’re not, we’re missing something. If this seems so clearly the case… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“This explains context-dependent craving in addiction.93 Suppose an alcoholic has been clean and sober for years. Return him to where the alcohol… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“Desire is oblivious to time and place, dear Mary. I want you, Mary. Please trust me, my sweet. Let me show you… — Victoria Vane Copy Share Image
This inner peace of mind occurs on three levels of understanding. Physical quietness seems the easiest to achieve, although there are levels… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think to be very blunt about it, in a lot of that support is a desire for convergence of a black… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
Everest is regarded as one of, if not the most challenging of human conquests. I was passionate about climbing and a great… — Omar Samra Copy Share Image
It is in everybody's interest to seek those [actions] that lead to happiness and avoid those which lead to suffering. And because… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something. If this seems so clearly the case… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Wretched men cringe before tyrants who have no power, the victims of their trivial hopes and fears. They do not realise that… — Boethius Copy Share Image
I say this with care, but I wonder if a fierce, insistent desire for a miracle - even a physical healing -… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“Love is when unknowingly I am moving to a world of no return, Where my desire and your fragrance together burn all… — Seema Gupta Copy Share Image
A true and safe leader is likely to be one who has no desire to lead, but is forced into a position… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The First thing that strikes a traveler in the United States is the innumerable multitude of those who seek to emerge from… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
And still the brain continues to yearn, continues to burn, foolishly, with desire. My old man's brain is mocked by a body… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
There are three kinds of feedback and organizations must utilize all three to be effective: 1. Evaluation. This rates you against standards… — Sheila Heen Copy Share Image
Whoever is acquainted with the cruel injustice and unjust subordination frequently manifested in the family, whoever sees matters of lasting and supreme… — Charles Franklin Thwing Copy Share Image
What are you going to do? Are you going to keep looking backwards, full of anger, resentment and unfulfilled desire. Or are… — Leonard Jacobson Copy Share Image
The problem for a lot of people is that they don't really know what they want. They have vague desire: to 'do… — John C. Parkin Copy Share Image
![“[L]ife is a phenomenon in need of criticism, for we are, as fallen creatures, in permanent danger of worshipping false gods, of failing to understand ourselves and misinterpreting the behaviour of others, of growing unproductively anxious or desirous, and of losing ourselves to vanity and error…” quote by Alain de Botton](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a9c/alain-de-botton-221_anxiety_l-ife-is-a-phenomenon-in-need-of-critici_1775630.jpg)
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![“A true and safe leader is likely to be one who has no desire to lead, but is forced into a position by the inward pressure of the Holy Spirit and the press of [circumstances]... The man who is ambitious to lead is disqualified as a leader. The true leader will have no desire to lord it over God's…” quote by Aiden Wilson Tozer](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/09d/aiden-wilson-tozer-296_ambitious_a-true-and-safe-leader-is-likely-to-be-o_643496.jpg)
