I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes… — E B White Copy Share Image
By binding image and desire, glamour gives us pleasure, even as it heightens our yearning. It leads us to feel that the… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. the first step is to… — W. Clement Stone Copy Share Image
To me the desire to create and to have control over your own life, irrespective of the politics of the time or… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
So proud she was to die It made us all ashamed That what we cherished, so unknown To her desire seemed. So… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“The atoms in my body crave for the atoms in your body. We can't stay apart!” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“Dougan had almost completely forgotten about the food, for his entire body was suffused with the most intense and exquisite sensation he'd… — Kerrigan Byrne Copy Share Image
Sex appeal is a wonderful, warm, womanly healthy feeling . . . it comes only from inside, it's from nothing that's manufactured.… — Jayne Mansfield Copy Share Image
Desire is both imitative (we like what others like) and competitive (we want to take away from others what they have). As… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book. — John Donne Copy Share Image
In Among the White Moon Faces, I wrote about my desire to be a writer as rooted in my obsessive hours of… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Painting, art in general, enchants me. It is my life. What else matters? When you put all your soul into a work,… — Camille Pissarro Copy Share Image
Christians are simply pilgrims who acknowledge their lostness and their desire for help in finding the way. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“No one could possibly understand my purest feelings but I couldn't care less; My deepest yearnings are nobody's goddamn business anyway” — Novala Takemoto Copy Share Image
“Like the sun's rays that cause the seed to stir within its husk, love's radiant energy penetrates the facade of the false… — John Welwood Copy Share Image
We are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one's… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The popularity of fantasy surpassing science fiction and the popularity of apocalyptic fiction, particularly for young adults, may indicate a desire to… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
I believe that, with anything in life, if you have the patience, desire and passion, you can do whatever you set your… — Ed Viesturs Copy Share Image
“The word hope first appeared in English about a thousand years ago, denoting some combination of confidence and desire. But what I… — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
The person who loves God cannot help loving every man as himself, even though he is grieved by the passions of those… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
“Once we’ve concluded that this earthly life of ours is a gift of divine mercy—and grateful recollection of this is our obligation—then… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
You have the burning desire as a successful sportsperson and that needs to go somewhere when you finish. It is a problem… — Denise Lewis Copy Share Image
Like the shepherds of old, we need to say in our hearts, “Let us see this thing which is come to pass.”… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
You can look for external sources of motivation and that can catalyze a change, but it won't sustain one. It has to… — Jillian Michaels Copy Share Image
A great many things determine how people live, and money is not at the top of the list. Choices are always available.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are various grades of spiritual sight. One grade enables a man to see the ordinarily invisible ether with the myriads of… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I am driven by a desire to see poverty end and economic security be a guaranteed capacity for every person. Most of… — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
Life is made for the strong. There is no mercy in it for the weak– none...Such is the tragedy of desire. — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
I've always had real trouble knowing what my actual desires and goals are. I've just been dragged along by fate. — Greg Giraldo Copy Share Image
Your mind is turbulent because you're filled with desires, frustrations. You want too many things. You are afraid of too many things.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Down deep in his heart he knew that we all have the same promise of the unlimited help of the Universal Intelligence… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can tell in two minutes if I should hire someone in the kitchen. Two minutes. It's his desire. It's that open-eyed,… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
I, a pilgrim of eternity, stand before Thee, O eternal One. Let me not seek to deaden or destroy the desire for… — John Baillie Copy Share Image
