For me, the desire exists less to get myself a degree than to just go and have the whole college experience, and… — Joshua Jackson Copy Share Image
Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I will gladly deal with the inconveniences that may attend living my life as I see fit, rather than be the kind… — Dave Champion Copy Share Image
We have years to converse with someone, to blurt and rant, to explain our desires and anger and regrets - and oh… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not… — Sallust Copy Share Image
I have a weakness for treating people's economic interests as their only interest, ignoring things like belonging and pride and the desire… — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
Learn to distinguish what you can and can't control. Within our control are our own opinions, aspirations, desires and the things that… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“I have come to understand that before choices, come our desires. Our desires influence our choices… Because many of our thoughts are… — Neil L. Andersen Copy Share Image
Add to this the pride of achievement; the desire to rank among the successful souls on earth, and we have the factors… — Lewis Howard Latimer Copy Share Image
Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern educational theorists, because… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“And when we go to sleep, we ought to greet the bed completely out of breath from the day. We must have… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interests of the desire to know-it involves… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Romantic enthusiasm lifts the good aloft and removes it into the dim distance of the incomparable and unattainable; at the same time… — Leo Baeck Copy Share Image
It's not necessary for you to exacerbate your contrast with struggle in order to get it into a higher place. It is… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
We all yearn to fly. We are creatures of longing. We do not need to [physically fly] to be airborne. What I… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Each week I am forced to revise my original opinion that Facebook is a great innovation for keeping people in touch, to… — Emily Yoffe Copy Share Image
The heart of the matter is that there is nothing the matter with our hearts. It is not love that is to… — Gay Hendricks Copy Share Image
“To desire orchids is to have a desire that will never be, can never be, fully requited. A collector who wants one… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
“[Krishna answers:] “The man who has given up all desires, who desires nothing, not even this life, nor freedom, nor gods, nor… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
When you listen with memory, you have an old agenda, and when you listen with desire, you have a new one. You… — Mark Goulston Copy Share Image
The more you think of yourself as shining immortal spirit, the more eager you will be to be absolutely free of matter,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Being able to afford everything you desire is not, by any means, the worst thing that can happen to you. But, depressingly,… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
“Passion is not just about the object of your focus or desires—it is the compelling emotion, fulfillment, and intense enthusiasm that it… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
I have no desire at all to become the winningest coach at Notre Dame. The record belongs to Knute Rockne or some… — Lou Holtz Copy Share Image
The universe is the way it is , whether we like it or not. The existence or nonexistence of a creator is… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
Fear of failure is at least as common as the desire for success. In fact, if harnessed properly, it can be the… — Mark McCormack Copy Share Image
“The hopeful fancy of a man toward a woman was nothing more than a reason to intercept his lust to prove better… — Justin Donner Copy Share Image
We yearn, as spirit children of our Heavenly Father, for that joy which we once had with Him in the life before… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
Bliss becomes blissful with practice. In our own bliss the desire, desirer and process of desiring are united - they are one.… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
I would hope that people might view their fellow beings, all beings, with more empathy, more compassion, with a desire to understand.… — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
“Like a child who saves their favourite food on the plate for last, I try to save all thoughts of you for… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire. Aristotle” — Christine Zolendz Copy Share Image
Speaking as a New Yorker, I found it (9/11 event] a shocking and terrifying event, particularly the scale of it. At bottom,… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and… — William Hale Hale Copy Share Image
Its not about passion. Passion is something that we tend to overemphasize, that we certainly place too much importance on. Passion ebbs… — Thomas Keller Copy Share Image
You cannot have a desire to surrender because that's non-surrender. Surrender arises spontaneously sometimes in people who don't even have a word… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
It began as this desire to do this science fiction movie about perhaps one of the last insects left that nobody's done… — Michael O'Donoghue Copy Share Image
You can look for external sources of motivation and that can catalyze a change, but it won't sustain one. It has to… — Jillian Michaels Copy Share Image
Siddhartha has one single goal-to become empty, to become empty of thirst, desire, dreams, pleasure and sorrow-to let the Self die. No… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
![“We all yearn to fly. We are creatures of longing. We do not need to [physically fly] to be airborne. What I call the aerial instinct-the drive to transcend our present condition- is the defining characteristic of a human being. We are restless animals, eternal travelers who are forever in the…” quote by Sam Keen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/002/sam-keen-4929_airborne_we-all-yearn-to-fly-we-are-creatures-of_890048.jpg)
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