Each human being is unique, each with their own qualities, instincts, forms of pleasure, and desire for adventure. However, society always imposes… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
You do not have to force yourself to do anything at all. There is a continual exchange, a continual dance. It is… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
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We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us… The old "manifest destiny" idea… — Francis John McConnell Copy Share Image
How often do we use other people as screens upon which to project our obsessions? Our discontents, dreams, desires, and fears? Well,… — Bradford Morrow Copy Share Image
Prayer is the converse of the soul with God. Therein we manifest or express to Him our reverence, and love for His… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
What Music expresses is eternal, infinite, and ideal; she expresses not the passion, love, desire, of this or that individual in this… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
Guys constantly talk about pornography in two ways: as revenge and as reassurance. When you live in a world in which beautiful,… — Michael Kimmel Copy Share Image
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I have no need to take up each thing that wants to throw its cause on us and show that it is… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
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Man-hating is everywhere, but everywhere it is twisted and transformed, disguised, tranquilized, and qualified. It coexists, never peacefully, with the love, desire,… — Judith Levine Copy Share Image
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If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We carry our past with us, to wit, the primitive and inferior man with his desires and emotions, and it is only… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Women want everything of a lover. And too often I would sink below the surface. So armies disappear under sand. And there… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“Appetite knows what it craves, without cerebral embellishment. It tends not to waste any time laying hold of its tools. That was… — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
The technique of a great seducer requires a facility and an indifference in passing from one object of affection to another which… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Perhaps one of the more noteworthy trends of our time is the occupation of buildings accompanied by the taking of hostages. The… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment,… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Cynicism doesn't have its way in series finales. My emotional desire when I watch a series come to an end is to… — Julie Plec Copy Share Image
Not merely hope, but any burdensome yearning: ambition, hatred, love (especially love) - how rarely do our emotions meet the object they… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
How much reverence has a noble man for his enemies!--and such reverence is a bridge to love.--For he desires his enemy for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“But something that never escapes me as I putter about the garden, physically and mentally: desire and curiosity inform the inevitable boundaries… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
The fact that we all leave behind seemingly insignificant clues behind ourselves - emotional DNA or what I call Small Data -… — Martin Lindstrom Copy Share Image
“There is no question that spending time with God changes our desires. We always become like the one we worship. But it’s… — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
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The poetic impulse is distinct from ideas about things or feelings about things, though it may use these. It's more like a… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
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When a thought oppresses you, do not be downhearted, but put up with it in courage, saying, 'They swarmed around me closer… — Pachomius the Great Copy Share Image
The very desire to seek spiritual enlightenment is in fact nothing but the grasping tendency of the ego itself, and thus the… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Humans used to desire love, money, food, shelter, safety, peace and freedom more than anything else. The last 30 years have changed… — Jim Clifton Copy Share Image
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Right now, and in every now-moment, you are either closing or opening. You are either stressfully waiting for something - more money,… — David Deida Copy Share Image
The bible teaches that woman brought sin and death into the world, that she precipitated the fall of the race, that she… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I was literally singing to myself on my way home, after the killing. The tension, the desire to kill a woman had… — David Berkowitz Copy Share Image
All I desire is, that my poverty may not be a burden to myself, or make me so to others; and that… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Erasmus dramatizes a well-established political position: that of the fool who claims license to criticize all and sundry without reprisal, since his… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
There was buried in Ruth humanitarianism beyond belief, an intelligence he was never given credit for, a childish desire to be over-virile,… — Waite Hoyt Copy Share Image
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