Pleasure simply brings more craving, but the problem is that we try to get contentment through pleasure. True contentment can only come… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Be careful about wanting what others have. There is always a price. Perhaps God didn’t give it to you, because He knew… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
He that discovers himself, till he hath made himself master of his desires, lays himself open to his own ruin, and makes… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
The way to get things done is to stimulate competition. I do not mean in a sordid, money-getting way, but in the… — Charles R. Schwab Copy Share Image
Making drawings with text in the first place, it really was born of a desire to be economic, and to do things… — David Shrigley Copy Share Image
I don't care for the applause one gets by saying what others are thinking; I want actually to change people's thoughts. Power… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To be authentic is literally to be your own author... to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
I know, being the odd one out can feel brutal. But, rest assured, it's also wonderful - because your desire to do… — Kathryn Minshew Copy Share Image
Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Michael Robartes remembers forgotten beauty and, when his arms wrap her round, he presses in his arms the loveliness which has long… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
An honest self-portrait is extremely rare because a man who has reached the degree of self-consciousness presupposed by the desire to paint… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It was not the passion that was new to her, it was the yearning adoration. She knew she had always feared it,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Being a Christian executive in Hollywood has contributed to me fulfilling my destiny. Hollywood respects the maverick, the person who's unique and… — DeVon Franklin Copy Share Image
Before writing a single note of music, and even before the spotting session, I find it best to sit down with the… — John Keltonic Copy Share Image
Our forefather Adam... used his freedom to turn toward what was worse and to direct his desire away from what had been… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
“Does God know the number of kisses before we fall in love? Yesterday, I was nobody and I believed myself important. Today,… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“To live in the shadow of another person...to desire to be adored as that person is…is the weakest ambition of all. Find… — Faye Hall Copy Share Image
We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire… — Akio Morita Copy Share Image
A personal library is a reflection of who you are and who you want to be, of what you value and what… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
“The mystery of desire was way beyond the conceptual abilities of Jules Jacobson. It was like ... robotics. Just another subject that she… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
The first rule of economics is that there is an infinite number of desires chasing a finite number of goods, services and… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“As long as there's breath in the flesh, there'll always be desire for more. Being content is a gift, other millionaires and… — Evans Biya Copy Share Image
“Having begun to feel, people’s desire to feel grew. They wanted to feel more, feel deeper, despite how it sometimes hurt. People… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
God does not always punish a nation by sending it adversity. More often He gives the oppressors their hearts' desire, and sends… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
If you want to see God, kill desires. Desires are in the mind. When you have a desire for something, don't act… — Neem Karoli Baba Copy Share Image
I have a background in theater. At the time I read 'The Loved Ones' script, I was playing Catherine the Great of… — Robin McLeavy Copy Share Image
My desire to exit the game is greater than my desire to remain in it. I have searched my heart through and… — Barry Sanders Copy Share Image
The subconscious part in us is called the subjective mind, because it does not decide and command. It is subject rather than… — William Thomas Walsh Copy Share Image
The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
To sing the national anthem is wonderful, but it's far from the sign of a strong team and it is absolutely no… — Joachim Low Copy Share Image
I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is… — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The urge to kill, like the urge to beget, Is blind and sinister. Its craving is set Today on the flesh of… — Andrei Voznesensky Copy Share Image
I read about this hotel that was great, down in the south of the island, not in a touristy area. I had… — Jeremy Northam Copy Share Image
I came to mistrust my desire to explode the picture and supercharge it in some way… what is more important is a… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
The actions of the University in my case make it abundantly clear that the Administration's rhetoric about Harvard's desire to attract and… — Margaret Geller Copy Share Image
“There wasn't a cloud in my mind, nor did I feel any discomfort, and I hadn't a single unfulfilled desire or craving… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely… — Wilbur Wright Copy Share Image
“I still couldn’t banish the image of the Quetzal Flower. In my mind, it merged with that of Priestess Eleuia: everything a… — Aliette de Bodard Copy Share Image
Our sincere desire should be to have both clean hands and a pure heart - both a remission of sins from day… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
