In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
Self-denial is taught much better by inspiring the love of our neighbor, than by the prohibition of innocent comforts and pleasures. Spirituality… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
For me, and for thousands with similar inclinations, the most important passion of life is the overpowering desire to escape periodically from… — Bob Marshall Copy Share Image
At the present moment in our culture this yearning for meaning and consciousness, this yearning to give and serve something higher than… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
“And now I lost my last treasure: the dreaming. For nothing in the dreams took the place of the human warmth I… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
“The outcome should not drive the action. Your desire to achieve the outcome should. The outcome depends on many variables, most of… — Murad S. Shah Copy Share Image
Whenever you do any one thing intensely over a period of time you have to give up other lives you could be… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
No one punishes the evil-doer under the notion, or for the reason, that he has done wrong -- only the unreasonable fury… — Plato Copy Share Image
The first step to forgiveness is the desire to do it, no matter how you feel toward the person who hurt you.… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
We are slaves, all of us...Some are slaves to fear. Others are slaves to reason—or base desire. It is our lot to… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
We all make choices. Believe me, I would like to write the hit of the world. It's not like I have any… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The human soul is hungry for beauty; we seek it everywhere - in landscape, music, art, clothes, furniture, gardening, companionship, love, religion,… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
“Desire for a person is not the same thing as having that unique appreciation and need for them, nor is affection. Desire… — Nina Sankovitch Copy Share Image
“What I realized standing there, is that this dark yearning is what happens when we idealize anything: the form of a woman,… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing. He… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
This is an issue that the Prime Minister put on the COAG agenda. First of all, it is something that would only… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
I love you. I'm madly in love with you. Well, madly obviously, given I'm mad as a mudlark. But you saved my… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
Would that men might come at last to see that it is quite impossible to reach the thicket of the riches and… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
We have no desire to permanently rule over millions of Palestinians, who double their numbers every generation. Israel, which wishes to be… — Ariel Sharon Copy Share Image
The phrase, the world wants to be deceived, has become truer than had ever been intended. People are not only, as the… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Two deep human desires were at war ... the longing for stability, for form, for permanence, which in its essence is the… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
The average mind requires a change of environment before he can change his thought. He has to go somewhere or bring into… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
The two most powerful nations of the world had been squared off against each other, each with its finger on the button.… — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
There are those who say that temptation can be barricaded beyond the door. The ones who think that stray desires can be… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
But God has the most fun with artists and writers: he inflames them with the desire to rival his own creations, then… — Rick Bayan Copy Share Image
“The feeling is one born of a too easy satisfaction of natural needs. The human animal, like others, is adapted to a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The mind lives through more, and the more cannot be fulfilled; that is impossible. IT ENDS IN TEARS. Every desire ends in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are afraid that our adult sexuality will somehow damage our kids, that it’s inappropriate or dangerous. But whom are we protecting?… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Self-love is an act of holy disruption. To love yourself in a world that profits directly from your self-loathing is the ultimate… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
I have no desire for wealth or possessions, and so I have nothing. I do not experience the initial suffering of having… — Milarepa Copy Share Image
Great art grabs you, against your will, and then suspends your will. You are ushered into a quiet clearing, free of desire,… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Brazil obviously connotes something in my mind to do with desire, sexuality and freedom. In fantasy, in mythology, Rio is the iconography… — Francis Levy Copy Share Image
“Do you want me, Min?" "Yes." "Need me." "Yes." She writhed against him, wild and slick and hot. "Love me?" His voice… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
The United States is at war with the al Qaeda terrorist group. Al Qaeda is not a nation-state and it has not… — John Yoo Copy Share Image
When you see a Donald Trump and a Bernie Sanders, very unconventional candidates, have considerable success, then obviously there's something there that's… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
What do you think? Who are these people who have depicted heaven as a playboy Club - who are these people? Starved,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
For my omniscience paid I toll In infinite remorse of soul. All sin was of my sinning, all Atoning mine, and mine… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
What is the purpose of writing music? One is, of course, not dealing with purposes but dealing with sounds. Or the answer… — John Cage Copy Share Image
