Although all of us desire happiness, few of us reach that goal because of the seemingly endless cycle of expectation and disappointment. — Tarthang Tulku Copy Share Image
the desire to enforce our own moral and spiritual criteria upon posterity is quite as strong as the desire to enforce them… — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
All genuine ideals have one thing in common: they express the desire for something which is not yet accomplished but which is… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I am no lover of pompous title, but only desire that my name may be recorded in a line or two, which… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
Heartbreak is when you're just far enough away from what you desire that you can feel it. Change is the Pangaea moment.… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed and when I'm writing, there are no bees to sting me… — John Green Copy Share Image
Man is not, like the animals, an obsequious puppet of instincts and sensual impulses. Man has the power to suppress instinctive desires,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal--a commitment to excellence--that will… — Mario Andretti Copy Share Image
It is interesting, that termites don't build things, and the great builders of our nation almost to a man have been Christians,… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
Intolerance of oppression, the desire to be free and develop one personality to its full limits, is not enough to make one… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
“A person was like a dense forest thicket, overgrown with a twisting mess of vines, weeds, shrubs, saplings, and flowers. No person… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Trying to achieve something in the spiritual world is just as foolish as trying to achieve something in the material world. There's… — Ayya Khema Copy Share Image
“In humans (and humans alone), sexuality is embodied in desire--in the primordial desire for life-as-relation. That the sex drive serves the vital… — Christos Yannaras Copy Share Image
Perfect wisdom has four parts, viz., wisdom, the principle of doing things aright; justice, the principle of doing things equally in public… — Plato Copy Share Image
Every defensive end who is going to be picked in the first round is going to be a good pick for whoever… — Justin Tuck Copy Share Image
The physical domain of the country had its counterpart in me. The trails I made led outward into the hills and swamps,… — John Haines Copy Share Image
Whereas his father would deliver rambling lectures that were heavy on gold and often disconnected from the political news of the moment,… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
One great difference between a wise man and a fool is, the former only wishes for what he may possibly obtain; the… — Democritus Copy Share Image
If there's one thing this team doesn't lack, it's competitiveness and a desire to win. No matter if we come off a… — Megan Rapinoe Copy Share Image
In the same way that rain breaks into a house with a bad roof, desire breaks into the mind that has not… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If I were not a king, I would be a university man; and if it were so that I must be a… — King James I Copy Share Image
Let this be thy whole endeavor, this thy prayer, this thy desire,-that thou mayest be stripped of all selfishness, and with entire… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
An inner knowing, along with a burning desire, is the prerequisite for becoming a person capable of manifesting his or her heart's… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
I want to have fun. I want to shine like the sun. I want to be the one that you want to… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Societies and people that come close to being happy are those that do well in narrowing the disparity between their desires and… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“Emotion. Need. Desire for human contact. And it was killing her because it hurt. It hurt like all hell. And she couldn’t… — Loreth Anne White Copy Share Image
Just as soon as any conviction of important truth becomes central and vital, there comes the desire to utter it - a… — Richard Salter Storrs Copy Share Image
We yearn for the desire to triumph, and it almost never does in the greatest love stories because we're left yearning for… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
“Nothing is far and nothing is near, if one desires. The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Creative seeker finding seeker—others who know the joy and the pain, the delight, and the struggle, and who are so busy diving… — Laurie E. Smith Copy Share Image
Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
You my friend, can achieve any dreams you want, if you follow through. Find something you REALLY love, work with it &… — Kristen Farah Copy Share Image
With debt free college there is absolutely no incentive to rein in administrative costs when the government is foolishly pushing everyone to… — Lisa Kennedy Montgomery Copy Share Image
Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the… — Socrates Copy Share Image
But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
“I was flipping channels, watching this cheerleading program on MTV. They took a field hockey girl and “transformed” her into a cheerleader… — Jess C Scott Copy Share Image
Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity. They are children, women and men who leave or who are… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
There is a perfect inverse ratio mathematically between something that you desire and to get it. Don't desire so much for not… — Kadir Yildiz Copy Share Image
“Come play with my wild - I need my hair pulled, my lips kissed, your tender caress. I need your savage, I… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“At the end of the day I went to this place where your memories left footsteps on my skin and the breath… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
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