It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
His youth seemed never so vanished as now in the contrast between the utter loneliness of this visit and that riotous, joyful… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I wish you the wisdom to know you’re better than what you've settled for, the desire for something greater, and the courage… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We have been frustrated that there are a number of incumbents in Maryland offices who have been in office for years and… — John Mahoney Copy Share Image
According to Buddhist practice, there are three stages or steps. The initial stage is to reduce attachment towards life. The second stage… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Physical pleasure is awakening in me the desire for more pleasure in general.” — Cheryl Richardson Copy Share Image
To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
The public sector can only feed off the private sector; it necessarily lives parasitically upon the private economy. But this means that… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Ego brings unnatural desires in you; it drives you crazy. Life is simple, but to be simple one has to be purposeless.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I shall desire and I shall find The best of my desires; The autumn road, the mellow wind That soothes the darkening… — Rupert Brooke Copy Share Image
Having fallen from the eternal, the Evil One's desires are endless, insatiable. Having fallen from pure Being, he is driven by the… — Denis de Rougemont Copy Share Image
The yearning for study was always there. I loved to learn. I really enjoyed studying history. Taking college classes was just something… — Nola Ochs Copy Share Image
I am fully and intensely aware that plants are conscious of love and respond to it as they do to nothing else. — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
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For the past several years, I have remained what others would consider underground. I did this in order to build a community… — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
“[T]he relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios--the overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
But the instinct of hoarding, like all other instincts, tends to become hypertrophied and perverted; and with the institution of private property… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
I relieved my loneliness with movies and books, and I had a strong desire to express what I felt through acting. — HoYeon Jung Copy Share Image
“Desire, Ask, Believe, Receive,” the mystic Stella Terrill Mann advises.” — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
Some form of self-discipline is necessary to transmute material desires into spiritual aspirations. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“Can’t help it? Nonsense! What we are is up to us. Our bodies are like gardens and our willpower is like the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
You need the desire to demonstrate the way you can play, which team you are. — Manuel Pellegrini Copy Share Image
I do feel that I have unfinished business in the Premier League and now is the right time to return. I considered… — Cesc Fabregas Copy Share Image
The loved object is simply one that has shared an experience at the same moment of time, narcissistically; and the desire to… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's just harder to remind yourself about what you're doing and why you're doing it... Other times, you have a great… — Andre Agassi Copy Share Image
It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
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