“I would rather traverse the valleys of a thousand hells than live a day without desire.” — Melissa McPhail Copy Share Image
I don't think we understand what others really want. I think we only understand what we really want. — Anthony Barger Copy Share Image
I claim my heart's desire, and I choose my direction. I will attain my chosen goal. — Alan Cohen 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
Every veil secretly desires to be lifted, except the veil of Hypocrisy. — Richard B. Garnett Copy Share Image
One of the things I always admired about my brother was his genuine desire to help others in need. — Cody Walker Copy Share Image
What motivates me has changed over time. My younger self was driven by the desire to be extremely successful. — Julie Sweet 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
When I announced my Strong Start, Strong Finish education initiative, I made clear my desire to give Alabamians the best opportunities possible… — Kay Ivey Copy Share Image
When the suffering of another creature causes you to feel pain, do not submit to the initial desire to flee from the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Bad people...are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The central fire is desire, and all the powers of our being are given us to see, to fight for, and to… — Basil W. Maturin Copy Share Image
The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
From 1918 on, trade unionists were to express from the platforms of their congresses the workers' desire for peace through a rational… — Leon Jouhaux Copy Share Image
It took me a long time to understand that there is no amount of wanting and no amount of desire and no… — Arlene Phillips Copy Share Image
Prayer is not a vain attempt to change God's will; it is a filial desire to learn God's will and to share… — George Arthur Buttrick Copy Share Image
“To begin with, at home I spent most of my time reading. I wanted to stifle all that was continuously boiling up… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
What are we going to get out of life? This can understandably be a question of fundamental importance to us. We begin… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
When you love a teacher very much - as I did Olivier Messiaen - you do have to leave them.One of the… — George Benjamin Copy Share Image
The thing that I find so bad about anger is the desire for payback. Of course, it is very human to wish… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
People's lives, meaningful lives derive from desire, from passion, from education, from knowledge, from growing up being inspired by people and believing… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
There are people so blind and self-absorbed in all matters that they always believe that, whatever they desire or think, they can… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
“Choice, and all its attendant energy, is a characteristic of youth. It is before one chooses that one feels desire and longing… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
“The first desire for each of us is the longing to be the phallus for the mother. Phallus here refers not to… — Stephen A. Mitchell Copy Share Image
The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Many grievers experience intense yearning or longing after a death - more than they experience, say, denial. — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
We have never escaped a certain male cultural desire for women's silence. — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
Young men still desire women as much as ever, even though they don't want to marry them as much. — Clare Boothe Luce Copy Share Image
I think you should be into whatever your kids care about, and fuel that desire. That's good parenting. — Jeremy Coon Copy Share Image
To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortune, and not your fortune by your desires. — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
“Hers was the bliss of one who knew that at last she was off upon the adventure at the end of which… — Paul Gallico Copy Share Image
“If the fascination towards material objects leave, the loss in spirituality also leaves!” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Prayer is the soul’s sincere desire, Uttered or expressed, The motion of a hidden fire That trembles in the breast.[1]” — Unknown Christian Copy Share Image
Grace is not something outside or you.. In fact, your very desire for grace is due to grace that is already working… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
No one can be truly genuine. Those who think otherwise are blindly spreading hate. — Isaiah Harden (Me Copy Share Image
You are my fire, I'm your ice.Lets make this to paradise.I love you, you love me come baby lets make history. — EwshyCrazyness Copy Share Image
There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance) — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“This explains why habits are so powerful: They create neurological cravings.” — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
I never had a particularly strong craving to procreate, except for earlier fantasies of wanting to be Marmee in Little Women. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“The desire of intimacy is the desire to share one's innermost self with another” — Dan McAdams Copy Share Image