To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Passion is begotten of passion, and it easily happens, as with the children of great men, that the base is the offspring… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Even in the world today, it is often at the point where we are frustrated by the gap between fallen reality and… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
It's a hard call, but I've no desire to live my children's lives. I think my job as a father is to… — Ernie Hudson Copy Share Image
You must go after the things you desire like your life depends on it, because guess what? Your life does depend on… — Jen Sincero Copy Share Image
Pentecost is a celebration of God... a celebration of God's power... a celebration of God's desire to empower us and to dwell… — Mark Hart Copy Share Image
No settlement with the majority community is possible, as no Hindu leader speaking with any authority shows any concern or genuine desire… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah Copy Share Image
The meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Women are taught that their main goal in life is to serve others--first men, and later, children. This prescription leads to enormous… — Jean Baker Miller Copy Share Image
What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I have decided to leave Clea’s last letter un-answered. I no longer wish to coerce anyone, to make promises, to think of… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
I think a part of evolution is the desire to know yourself, and know the world you live in, and discover everything… — Audra McDonald Copy Share Image
As far as I can remember, I have always wanted everything from life, everything it can possibly give me. This desire separates… — Deborah Feldman Copy Share Image
I decided to be an actress, and the day after, I was an actress. That was quick and very scary at the… — Carole Bouquet Copy Share Image
Only the brave should teach…Teaching is a vocation. It is as sacred as priesthood; as innate a desire, as inescapable as the… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
But they have two other Rights; those of sitting when they please, and as long as they please, in which methinks they… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
When all the Self was conquered and dead, when all passions and desires were silent, then the last must awaken, the innermost… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Our restlessness in this world seems to indicate that we are intended for a better. We have all of us a longing… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
I think my initial desire to start making art came from a desire and a need to communicate but not having anyone… — Willie Herron Copy Share Image
“I never will be sober while desire guides me, lured by darkness to distant light, where sky gods celebrate those who love night glory, who dare once… — Don Hynes Copy Share Image
Graphic novels are all about fantasies. Superman and Batman started it. It's like a reaction to environment around you. You desire to… — Vikramaditya Motwane Copy Share Image
The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence -- these… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Their cool cheeks and warm lips met in the crisp darkness, and, watching the icy moon over his shoulder, Annie knew that… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
When a man, however passively, becomes an obstacle to the fulfillment of a woman's desires, he becomes an odious thing in her… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
It is not credible that any one should possess so little understanding as to desire the faith and yet be destitute of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm very determined and stubborn. There's a desire in me that makes me want to do more and more, and to do… — Mary Lou Retton Copy Share Image
I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
What you feel, what you desire and what you want is not what you are. You are a consciousness. Speak consciously and… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
Understand that if a deep desire lives in your heart, a dream that is part of your soul's fiber, a path exists… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
My granddad wanted to become a sign painter and designer, but was stopped; my dad would have had a real talent for… — Stefan Sagmeister Copy Share Image
“Success has no other shortcuts apart from the ones that tell you; control thoughts, delete negativity, alternate actions and shift attitudes to… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
It (Tao) is eternally without desire. So, it can be called small. All things return to it, although it does not make… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The desire for riches is simply the capacity for a larger life seeking fulfillment; every desire is the effort of an unexpressed… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
To have done no man a wrong...to walk and live, unseduced, within arm's length of what is not your own, with nothing… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
A nation like China has become one of the biggest production fields for exporting cheap labor, which also re-questions our history and… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Creation's gold mine is in you. The key is deliberate intention. Whatever your dream may be at this moment, identify it. If… — Mary Manin Morrissey Copy Share Image
If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The experience of light in a very pure form always creates happiness. The experience of desire and aversion tends to create unhappiness. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Taking the way that opens, even if it seems hardly more than a footpath, not infrequently leads to the highways of heart's… — Frances Parkinson Keyes Copy Share Image
The suburban landscape is alien and strange and exotic. I photograph it out of longing and desire. My photographs are also about… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
