The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Let not light see my black and deep desires. They eye wink at the hand, yet let that be which the eye… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Stars hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires: The eyes wink at the hand; yet let that… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Desire also creates a sense of attachment in the mind. Not only are we attached to our way of thinking and of… — Gyalwa Dokhampa Copy Share Image
Love is a Christian word, Anjin-san. Love is a Christian thought, a Christian ideal. We have no word for 'love' as I… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
I should write for the mere yearning and fondness I have for the beautiful, even if my night's labors should be burnt… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Men have a singular desire to be good without being good for anything, because, perchance, they think vaguely that so it will… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The sluggish economy is creating a situation where the young people in Japan cannot cherish their desires or have prospects for their… — Shinzo Abe Copy Share Image
Onstage was where I felt the most confident and in control and free, and as I've gotten older, it's gotten more and… — Ari Graynor Copy Share Image
If you have desires, try to look - are those desires the cause of your misery? Nobody wants misery, but nobody is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You build desires, and as a result, rather than just being who and what you are, you create one, ten, hundreds of… — Trent Zelazny Copy Share Image
God does not... give people positions or jobs or... good conditions such as they desire; they must do that for themselves.. God… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
One does not structure the church to meet the felt needs and desires of the tares. The purpose of corporate assembly, which… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Oh! might I kiss those eyes of fire, A million scarce would quench desire; Still would I steep my lips in bliss,… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
We consider the beauty of nature and art with pleasure and satisfaction, without the slightest movement of desire. Instead, it appears to… — Moses Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
Most people think happiness comes from experiences in the world. The fulfillment of desire causes a type of happiness. But as soon… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If we are to develop an intimate relationship, we need to know each other's desires. If we wish to love each other,… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
They want politics and think it will save them. At best, it gives direction to their numbed desires. But there is no… — Gilbert Sorrentino Copy Share Image
One of the glories of society is to have created woman where Nature had made only a female; to have created a… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The beginning of pride and hatred lies in worldly desire, and the strength of your desire if from habit. When an evil… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The freedom to pursue your own desires while sharing your experiences with the other person, The growth of one individual alongside of… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“...there was a natural comorbidity between sexual appetite and sexual jealousy, between the desire to fuck and the desire to kill.” — M. Thomas Gammarino Copy Share Image
“Inside each of us are memories, fantasies and desires for home - a shelter waiting to be built, a place of peace… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Let us not still our anger against indifference and inattention and let us not glitziness, superciliousness and mumbo jumbo slither into our… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“Freedom looks beautiful and inspiring to those who desire & seek it; but Freedom looks like rebellion to those who have become… — Sanjo Jendayi Copy Share Image
Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Christ is the desire of nations, the joy of angels, the delight of the Father. What solace then must that soul be… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat, and wool and household stuff. It… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For Dostoevsky, Fourier is one of the industrious ant-hill engineers, busy, protected by the delusion that his goal, the will-ordered society, is… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
The self-anointed media elite among us believe, somewhat self-servingly, that not only the act, or process of making a profit is positively… — Lachlan Murdoch Copy Share Image
I'd forgotten how that sort of craving felt, how it rose suddenly and loudly from the pit of my stomach like a… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“Throughout the millennia and across cultures, those who have thought carefully about desire have drawn the conclusion that spending our days working… — William B. Irvine Copy Share Image
“It was one of those summers you’re nostalgic for even before it passes. Pale, bled skies. Thunderstorms in the night. Sour-smelling dawns.… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
Master, Master Poet, Master of our silent desires, The heart of the world quivers with the throbbing of your heart, But it… — Khalil Copy Share Image
But no words will change my desire / My determination born of love / My will to set my eccentric sight /… — Kenji Miyazawa Copy Share Image
Medicare, getting through that in the '60s, after Kennedy's assassination, where there was such an emotional desire to do something to carry… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
“I would suggest that the desire to love is always greater than the passion to hate. It’s simply that love demands vulnerability… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education… — Jack Miller Copy Share Image
