Your success in life is determined by an inner drive accompanied by an external effort. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The craving for a delicate fruit is pleasanter than the fruit itself. — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
“They thought of home, naturally, but there was no burning desire to be in civilization for its own sake. Worsley recorded: "Waking… — Alfred Lansing Copy Share Image
I know I didn't do anything to desire the talent, that God gave me. What a blessing it is to throw a… — Clayton Kershaw Copy Share Image
Rather than going after our walls and barriers with a sledgehammer, we pay attention to them. With gentleness and honesty, we move… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Is the scene always visual? It can be aural, the frame can be linguistic: I can fall in love with a sentence… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Adam Smith was not a big fan of the pursuit of fame and fortune. His view of what we truly want, of… — Russ Roberts Copy Share Image
Talking about your grievances merely adds to those grievances. Give recognition only to what you desire. — Thomas Dreier Copy Share Image
We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more… — Maria Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Our desires consume our time. But when we prioritize our time to help people in great need, our desires change drastically. When… — Jeff Shinabarger Copy Share Image
“Their [girls] sexual energy, their evaluation of adolescent boys and other girls goes thwarted, deflected back upon the girls, unspoken, and their… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear... — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
I'd forgotten how that sort of craving felt, how it rose suddenly and loudly from the pit of my stomach like a… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
What you desire, as an actor, is to have an impact. That's why you did it. You want to move people, and… — Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Copy Share Image
Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes,… — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
“Or are "being" and "having" thoroughly inaccurate verbs in the twisted skein of desire, where having someone's body to touch and being… — André Aciman 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
I believe God has instilled in us a craving, a deep desire to run with Him on a fantastic adventure, yet many… — Bryan Davis Copy Share Image
“There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous.… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my… — Fyodor Dostoevsky 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
When you have this desire to win, to win, to win, I would not feel comfortable losing a title. — Fernandinho Copy Share Image
“The forces of desire that sway man's mind are the forces that will eventually destroy him, while a singular love that roots… — Prabhukrishna M Copy Share Image
The acme of freedom from wealth is to desire to be possessionless even as others desire to possess. — Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov Copy Share Image
Hardships can deprive mortals of the power to ACT. But at the same time, hardships can be the means of eternal growth… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Never give up on your dreams. No matter how many people say it’s impossible, no matter how difficult your journey is, you… — Susane Colasanti Copy Share Image
When people can't control their desires... we have to pass laws to stop their desires. — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
“and the desire would never be satisfied, except by a being of equal greatness.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Let us cleave... to those who cultivate peace with godliness, and not to those who hypocritically profess to desire it. For the… — Pope Clement I Copy Share Image
For every problem or confusion and for every desire or ambition there is an available force waiting for your call. — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
“He lashed the belt against my ass again, and I was starting to feel like I was some supernatural being that was… — Fiona Thrust Copy Share Image
My desire is to strive toward perfection; to be as much in harmony with God's will as possible; to live up to… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
Bruce Campbell and Ossie Davis are just great in that, and Don's direction is sublime. Love it, and I was glad to… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
“Only an unsatisfied preference is bad. In other words, he argues that although it is good to have fulfilled whatever desires one… — David Benatar Copy Share Image
Dive into your heart center. Sit in the silence. Desire self-realization with all your heart, with all your mind, and all your… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
There are moments when you feel that the desire to work is fading, and the only way to bring it back is… — Emmanuelle Beart Copy Share Image
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