Your desire for perfection is the cause of anger. Leave room for imperfection. Perfection in action is almost impossible. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
“The Buddha taught that all human suffering is rooted in desire. Don't we all know this to be true? Any of us… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
If a man's patience is stronger than his whims and desires, then he is like an angel, but if his whims and… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
Persons who have cleansed themselves of any transgression and who have shown their ability to deal with homosexual inclinations and put them… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“As Christians, we needn’t be at all ashamed of some impatience, longing, opposition to what is unnatural, and our full share of… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The brain is not the mind. It is probably impossible to look at a map of brain activity and predict or even… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
There is a perfect inverse ratio mathematically between something that you desire and to get it. Don't desire so much for not… — Kadir Yildiz Copy Share Image
How do you resign yourself to something that will never be? You stop wanting just that thing. You go numb. Or you… — Jenny Holzer Copy Share Image
Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Intense, burning desire is the motivational force that enables you to overcome any obstacle and achieve almost any goal — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Books are never out of humour; never envious or jealous, they answer all questions with readiness; ... they teach us how to… — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
When we think carefully, we see that the brief elation we experience when appeasing sensual impulses may not be very different from… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I want to engage people in an honest, enlightened, and provocative conversation about the nature of erotic desire and the intricacies of… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Perhaps a supreme form of charity may be exhibited by one who withholds judgment of another's acts or conduct, remembering that there… — H. Burke Peterson Copy Share Image
Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
Fasting is not bodily hunger but bodily elevation and purity. It is not a body that hungers and longs for food, but… — Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria Copy Share Image
“Behind every stressful thought is the desire for things to be other than they are.” — Toni Bernhard Copy Share Image
