If you'd rather be a chooser, enter a market or a transaction where you have something to trade, something of value, something… — Seth Copy Share Image
“The thing you are passionate about is not random; it stems from an inner yearning. Don’t ignore it or allow others to… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
To be constantly without desire is the way to have a vision of the mystery of heaven and earth. For constantly to… — Laozi Copy Share Image
I think people have a strong desire to push me and others into some sort of political box that they can wrap… — Adam Carolla Copy Share Image
Motivation never comes with the desire to be better than everybody else. It comes with the desire to be better than who… — Collins Hasty Copy Share Image
The cords of passion and desire weave a binding net around you. Worldly confrontation makes you stiff and inflexible. The trap of… — Laozi Copy Share Image
A word of advice. If, as a young man, student, you are tormented by a desire for women, it is best to… — Penelope Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“No one, she thought, had ever understood the nature of love…how love went beyond flutters in the heart, pining and yearning, or… — Tabitha Vohn 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
Every instinct that is found in any man is in all men. The strength of the emotion may not be so overpowering,… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Wonder [admiratio astonishment, marvel] is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and does not… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
But the true evil of drink lies in the disillusion: that the initial pleasure very soon evaporates, leaving a demoralizing craving for… — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
I do have a very conscious desire not to be academic. I'm antiacademic. I hate jargon. I hate that sort of pretension.… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
The way you create any outcome in your life is to hold the vision of your deepest desires. At the same time,… — David Emerald Womeldorff Copy Share Image
And if there be any addition to knowledge, it is rather a new knowledge than a greater knowledge; rather a singularity in… — John Donne Copy Share Image
To lovers, I devise their imaginary world, with whatever they may need, as the stars of the sky, the red, red roses… — Williston Fish Copy Share Image
I don't make money on the road, and so there's less and less incentive for me to do it when I don't… — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
“In a word a contented Christian, being sweetly captivated under the authority of the Word, desires to be wholly at God's disposal… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
“When the human being says: 'It is not true...' He may mean: 'I don't know about it, so I think it is… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“ “What’s puzzling is the sender wrote, ‘I hope this is helpful for the Tariq’Allah office in Istanbul. Stay in touch.’ Turkey… — Karl Braungart Copy Share Image
Till your mental soil with determination. Fertilize your emotional soil with positive words. And plant the seed of your heart's desire with… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
Despite his persecutions, Mr. [Upton] Sinclair reveals himself in Money Writes! to be an enviable man. Always the thing he desires to… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
As you spend time in God's Word and understand his love, the Holy Spirit will create new desires within you to love… — Chip Ingram Copy Share Image
I have this desire to create things and build things, and Google has enabled me to build and create things and to… — Susan Wojcicki Copy Share Image
The state of childhood resonates with life inside a fantasy novel. If you have no control over how you spend large chunks… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The pretended desires of many to behold the glory of Christ in heaven, who have no view of it by faith while… — John Owen Copy Share Image
If you said I want happiness. First remove I, that's ego, then remove want, that's desire. See? Now you are left with… — Buddha Copy Share Image
The passion for praise, which is so very vehement in the fair sex, produces excellent effects in women of sense, who desire… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
Those who, from the desire of our perfection, have the keenest eye far our faults generally compensate for it by taking a… — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
The only purpose of life till it ends is to satisfy the desires of your own mind and body and nothing else… — Goutham Aditya Devaguptapu Copy Share Image
Your desire is your prayer. Picture the fulfillment of your desire now and feel its reality and you will experience the joy… — Joseph Murphy Copy Share Image
People often say that I'm curious about too many things at once... But can you really forbid a man from harbouring a… — Alexander von Humboldt Copy Share Image
I wish to explore the beauty of everyday environments; in troubled times it is especially important to be aware of beauty and… — Elizabeth Barton Copy Share Image
The more spiritual a man desires to be, the more bitter does this present life become to him, because he perceives better… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
When the creative spirit stirs, it animates a style of being: a lifetime filled with the desire to innovate, to explore new… — Paul A. Kaufman Copy Share Image
Everything you desire is always just outside your comfort zone, dear boy. If it wasn't you would already possess it, would you… — Chris Murray Copy Share Image
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
The great object of the Christian is duty; his predominant desire to obey God. When he can please the world consistently with… — Gardiner Spring Copy Share Image
Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinctive abhorrence of nuclear weapons, and a… — Joseph Rotblat Copy Share Image
![“Wonder [admiratio astonishment, marvel] is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and does not know its cause, or when the cause of the particular effect is one that exceeds his power of understanding. Hence, wonder is a cause of pleasure insofar as there is…” quote by Thomas Aquinas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/79f/thomas-aquinas-837_arise_wonder-admiratio-astonishment-marvel-is_1916754.jpg)
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