“Your deepest desire,” he observes, “is the one manifested by your daily life and habits.”6 This is because our action—our doing—bubbles up… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“Like Rousseau, Hegel appreciated quite early on that in modern commercial societies, individuals' desires and needs were generated by the desires and… — Darrin M. McMahon Copy Share Image
If you're looking at distributing alternative energy in Nigeria, for instance, what gets in your way is not people's ability to pay,… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
I don't know a single woman in her 40s who isn't incredibly full of life and sexuality and desire for everything. There's… — Connie Britton Copy Share Image
Men will gamble and plot and fight and fall, all for the winning of a trophy. A woman's heart, a piece of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation- a burning desire… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I do not mean to say that I viewed those desires of mine that deviated from accepted standards as normal and orthodox;… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
A rural Venus, Selah rises from thegold foliage of the Sixhiboux River, sweepspetals of water from her skin. At once,clouds begin to… — George Elliott Clarke Copy Share Image
There is within the hearts of people a deep desire for peace on earth, and they would speak for peace if they… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
I am convinced that those who get themselves involved in the machinery of power politics, even for the purpose of destroying it,… — Vinoba Bhave Copy Share Image
“Supporting God's Scriptural ability to give or restrain man's desires, Jerry Bridges points to an amazing verse tucked away in Exodus 34:24.… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
That "ol' black magic" is a fickle force. The chemistry of romantic love can trigger the chemistry of sexual desire and the… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
In the dream state, the mind and soul are set free to create as they please, to imagine vast worlds not tied… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
When artists and philosophers talk only amongst themselves, they ignore the potential of popular culture to become a variety of dialogues with… — Brenda Laurel Copy Share Image
You want to have a loving, safe relationship with your child, but you can't because you have to do these things to… — Jack Coleman Copy Share Image
James says, "You desire and do not have; so you kill" (Jas. 4:2). We kill marriages and we kill unborn babies because… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“It is of course possible to give more elaborate answers to the perennial question: why climb? In his writing and lectures, George… — Peter Gillman Copy Share Image
That myth--that image of the madonna-mother--has disabled us from knowing that, just as men are more than fathers, women are morethan mothers.… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
Abby: I could be a slave to your darkest desires. I can do things. Anything you want. Tommy: Well, that's terrific, because… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
I saw you, and I wanted to be close to you. I wanted you to let me in. I wanted to know… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
We tend to minimize the things we can do, the goals we can accomplish, and for some equally strange reason we think… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“When a culture oppresses women, and all do to one degree or another, it isn't convenient to acknowledge that there are women… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
And when you, O human, will return to Nature, that day your eyes will open, you will stare straight into the eyes… — A. D. Gordon Copy Share Image
Seek guidance for outer action, but be even more concerned with the desires of the heart, that they be consistent with the… — Frances J Roberts Copy Share Image
Usually this desire [for family limitation] has been laid to economic pressure It has asserted itself among the rich and among the… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
In Technologized Desire, the cultural pathologies that mark the panic ecstasy and terminal doom of the posthuman condition are powerfully rehearsed in… — Arthur Kroker Copy Share Image
“The Portuguese word saudade has no direct English translation; applied to a range of human experience it conveys longing, nostalgia, homesickness, the… — Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr Copy Share Image
“Goddess,” he rasped, running his hands over her hips, up her legs. “Lover,” she whispered back, threading the fingers of her right… — Lexxie Couper Copy Share Image
“Miserable humanity was clamouring from the depths of its abyss of suffering, and the clamour swept along, sending a shudder down every… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
“You have been feeling the way your society programmed you to feel. You have been thinking the way your society programmed you… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Much of everyday life is filled with opportunities to be distracted. Our possessions... entertainment... cares and anxieties... and even the passionate desire… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
If you've got a desire to achieve something, then keep going until you achieve it. It's not always possible and things might… — Victoria Derbyshire Copy Share Image
How do you listen? Do you listen with your projections, through your projection, through your ambitions, desire, fears, anxieties, through hearing only… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The joyful news for anyone who desires to be rid of the consequences of past poor choices is that the Lord sees… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
Are your desires purely selfish? Do your tastes run to a grand home, automobiles, fine clothes, an abundance of amusements, and so… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Conversation as talent exists only in France. In other countries, conversation provides politeness, discussion, and friendship; in France, it is an art… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
“On February 14 Sky scatters snow kisses on Chicago's land. Sparkling love drops caressing its flesh, Covering its body with dew. As… — Amany Al-Hallaq Copy Share Image
“Li Tao had caught a single glimpse of her the first time he had been to the palace. The hunger that had… — Jeannie Lin Copy Share Image
Every sunset which I witness inspires me with the desire to go to a west as distant and as fair as that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image