“Some women, it seemed, were entirely without guile and bestowed their affections with hardly a moment's conscious thought. Others set out to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“I think,” said the Major, taking his pipe from his mouth, “that desire is the most wonderful thing in life. Anybody who… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to… — Mencius Copy Share Image
The total absence of desire brings happiness. It also brings freedom and liberation, because whenever something is lacking there are both limits… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I've got evil in me as much as anyone, some desires that scare me. Even if I don't give in to them,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
That is love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return.3 — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We are torn between the craving to know and the despair of having known. — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
All those who are unhappy in the world are so as a result of their desire for their own happiness. All those… — Shantideva Copy Share Image
“And the truth is, quite often God's desire for us will run against the prevailing current. 'Get off the next exit.' His… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
I think it's ultimately inhuman to only see things for their functionality. We want things to be more than that. The desire… — Stefan Sagmeister Copy Share Image
To act well in this world, one must sacrifice all personal desires. The people who become missionaries of religious thought have no… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
I've always been blessed, or cursed, some might say, with an insatiable curiosity, a desire to find something out about a people… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
Happiness is just being you, where you are right now. Allow yourself to be you. Shut off all the silly thoughts and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Greatness comes to those who develop a burning desire to achieve high goals. — W. Clement Stone Copy Share Image
We all like to look good. However, this basic human desire can often get in the way of our listening and our… — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
There may come a day Which crowns Desire with gift, and Art with truth, And Love with bliss, and Life with wiser… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
“Our thoughts were frosty mist along the eaves; our two ghosts kissed, high on the long, mazed wires - eerie half-laughter echoes… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Who shot you?" For a moment he looked annoyed. "I fail to see what that's got to do with anything. Reading assures… — Anne Stuart Copy Share Image
The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
What I find to be very bad advice is the snappy little sentence, 'Write what you know.' It is the most tiresome… — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
He awoke, opened his eye. The room meant very little to him; he was too deeply immersed in the non-being from which… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
