Those who have a desire to teach while coming to learn should not pose as disciples; they must come as teachers. — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
“The purpose of suffering is to contain the light of your desire until you see yourself in everything.” — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
So many people who desire poverty get it quickly, but those who desire wealth never have it. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
When you are in alignment with the desires of your heart, things have a way of working out. — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win. — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
A slave- holder, who has decided to abolish slavery, does not consult his slaves whether they desire freedom or not. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It's only with that absolute humility and purity that you can make friends with God; because, otherwise, you're just too busy with… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“I realized that that was how heartbreak occurred. Your heart wants something, but reality resists it. Death is inert and heavy, and… — Zinzi Clemmons Copy Share Image
I don't just want to be the girl boys get excited about, I have no desire for people to see me in… — Alicia Silverstone 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
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
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
Intellectual curiosity about one's own illness is certainly born of a desire for mastery. If I couldn't cure myself, perhaps I could… — Siri Hustvedt 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
“Now I was also trying to understand how someone could end such intense desire without leaving a trace. If you had really… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Philosophical argument, trying to get someone to believe something whether he wants to believe it or not, is not, I have held,… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
We remember what it was like to meet someone new. We remember what it was like to grant someone possibility. You look… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“Sexual desire does not obey the laws that maintain peace and contentment between partners. Reason, understanding, compassion, and camaraderie are the handmaidens… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
My interest in writing about American history stemmed originally, I think, from a subconscious desire to find roots - I felt like… — Jean Fritz Copy Share Image
“Her first instinct was to look away, to shield her wicked thoughts and feelings from his penetrating gaze. But if ever there… — Connie Mason Copy Share Image
“The contrast between the two, the sweetness and the badness, wrenches the heart of the lover as such sweetness on its own… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“I stayed under the moon too long. I am silvered with lust. Dreams flick like minnows through my eyes. My voice is… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
“Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I accomplish.” — Michelangelo Buonarroti Copy Share Image
