“Amuse yourself, torment your desires. Drink when you're thirsty -- that would be very much too simple! If you didn't harbour a… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
What a powerful thing to know: That one's own desires are mappable onto strangers; that what one finds in oneself will most… — George Saunders 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
“You are correct in saying that desires often come from things we cannot easily gain - mine, being that of your love.… — Renee Vincent Copy Share Image
My desire to be a physician had a lot to do with that sense of medicine as a ministry of healing, not… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“Desire or impassioned liking go with a demanding and ongoing quest, and therefore patience and indulgence are decisive to hitting the trail… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Like solo sailors venturing into the Southern Ocean, climbers are seduced by risk. The desire to push to a summit or scale… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
Beloved," said the Glorious One, "unless thy desire had been for me thou wouldst not have sought so long and so truly.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe God has instilled in us a craving, a deep desire to run with Him on a fantastic adventure, yet many… — Bryan Davis Copy Share Image
“Do you also believe that what gives our lives their meaning is the passion that suddenly invades us heart, soul, and body,… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
We are free, in the West, to choose; we have real choice to pursue our own desires; we are free to set… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
“Had a couple of drinks by myself. It was a mistake. Have I got to give up drinking, too? If I eliminate… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“The harmony of two bodies expressed in this single touch, bridging their differences and bending their moral reserve, was as powerful and… — Peter Nadas Copy Share Image
God operates by different rules of time and space. And God's infinite greatness, which we would expect to diminish us, actually makes… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
You've got to attract interest in your candidate. The problem when you're running far behind is that you've got to move through… — Roger Ailes Copy Share Image
India, she now knew, would not be content staying in the background, was nobody's wallpaper, insisted in interjecting itself into everyone's life,… — Thrity Umrigar Copy Share Image
Children, we cannot control our mind without controlling our desire for taste. The health aspect, not the taste, should be the prime… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
“Do you have all that you desire? The health, the home, the career or the relationship? Look to where you're investing your… — Rob Liano Copy Share Image
I remember Doritos launched a new flavour and the question was whether I could use my skills - as they perceived them… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
I once believed that I possessed creative talent, but I have given up this idea; a woman must not desire to compose… — Clara Schumann Copy Share Image
“This was the mark of deep infatuation, he thought: the desire to watch a woman talk just to see her lips move,… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I… — E.B. White Copy Share Image
I Love Jesus Christ and that is why I am on fire with the desire to give Him souls, first of all… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
You must lay aside your greed; have no unworthy motive in your desire to become rich and powerful. It is legitimate and… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
The Bible, as a revelation from God, was not designed to give us all the information we might desire, nor to solve… — Albert Barnes Copy Share Image
When I walked away from my role as Angie in 'Eastenders' all those years ago, it was a huge risk, but I… — Anita Dobson Copy Share Image
She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
When you dance, do you feel desire? Do you feel as if you were summoning up a greater energy? When you dance,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Without life there can be no action — no objects of pursuit — no restless desires — no tormenting passions. Hence it… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Any individual can be, in time, what he earnestly desires to be, if he but sets his face steadfastly in the direction… — John Herman Randall Copy Share Image
Who's in or out, who moves the grand machine, Nor stirs my curiosity, or spleen; Secrets of state no more I wish… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
My years in law enforcement taught me that those who wear the badge are often called to the profession because of their… — Mike Parson Copy Share Image
If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
That's why there is such alienation, depression, and despair in our society - because the means we're employing doesn't lead to the… — Tim DeChristopher Copy Share Image
A rewarding relationship occurs when there is a common spiritual goal, shared spiritual values and a mutual desire to build a relationship… — Yehuda Berg Copy Share Image
“She sees how you diminish her solitude, and, more meaningfully, she sees you seeing, which sparks in her that oddest of desires… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
But Chinese civilization has the overpowering beauty of the wholly other, and only the wholly other can inspire the deepest love and… — Joseph Needham Copy Share Image
To reach satisfaction in all desire its possession in nothing, To come to the knowledge of all desire the knowledge of nothing.… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
“Why did he sit so near and keep his eye on her? Why did they not have done with this searching and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
