Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it. — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
“Unless you keep focused on your desires through images, repetition and a positive attitude, it will come to nothing.” — Stephen Richards Copy Share Image
“The tide that swallows a people is born of its own darkest desires.” — Kevin Emerson Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ is in every way sufficient to the vast desires of the soul. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No man can be patient who has not strong passions, for patience is passion tamed. — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
“Do you have all that you desire? The health, the home, the career or the relationship? Look to where you're investing your… — Rob Liano Copy Share Image
Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Beloved," said the Glorious One, "unless thy desire had been for me thou wouldst not have sought so long and so truly.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Like solo sailors venturing into the Southern Ocean, climbers are seduced by risk. The desire to push to a summit or scale… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
“Desire or impassioned liking go with a demanding and ongoing quest, and therefore patience and indulgence are decisive to hitting the trail… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
My desire to be a physician had a lot to do with that sense of medicine as a ministry of healing, not… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“You are correct in saying that desires often come from things we cannot easily gain - mine, being that of your love.… — Renee Vincent Copy Share Image
Children, we cannot control our mind without controlling our desire for taste. The health aspect, not the taste, should be the prime… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
“I have come to understand that before choices, come our desires. Our desires influence our choices… Because many of our thoughts are… — Neil L. Andersen Copy Share Image
Why should we desire the destruction of human passions? Take passions from human beings and what is left? The great object should… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern educational theorists, because… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Add to this the pride of achievement; the desire to rank among the successful souls on earth, and we have the factors… — Lewis Howard Latimer Copy Share Image
Think... of the world you carry within you, and call this thinking whatever you want to: a remembering of your own childhood… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Are not our desires inseparably intertwined with the continuation of life? Even the idea of eliminating desire is fruitless. The desire to… — Sadhu Sundar Singh Copy Share Image
“Always the same. Now a spark of hope flashes up, then a sea of despair rages, and always pain; always pain, always… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Developing a character with genuine depth requires a focus on not just desire but how the character deals with frustration of her… — David Corbett Copy Share Image
“Within the nature of every person is a desire to feel appreciated, to feel needed, and to be loved.” — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image
A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
The heart desires, the hand refrains. The Godhead fires, the soul attains. — William Morris Copy Share Image
When our desires are fulfilled, and we still feel unhappy - this is the moment we begin the process of letting go. — Krishna Das Copy Share Image
Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed. — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
“I had an irresistible desire to make a last effort to awaken your memory.” — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Let the light of your burning desire shine, it gives significance and meaning to your life. — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
The desire to be a politician should bar you for life from ever being one. — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man. — Democritus Copy Share Image
“I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Let temporal things be in the use, eternal things in the desire.” — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
“Hope and desire, All unfulfilled, Have more than rope And hangman killed.” — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
