Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Bold, extravagant goals fire our imagination and kindle our desire.” — Ben Hunt-Davis Copy Share Image
The vanity of shining in conversation is usually subversive of its own desires. — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
Most human beings, though in varying degrees, desire to control, not only their own lives but also the lives of others — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Happiness does not lie in getting people and things outside of you lined up exactly to suit your desires. — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
... the desire for truth must take precedence over all other desires. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Beauty loves contradiction. Beauty is born of desire. And without beauty, there is nothing. Beauty is our keeper, our master, our reason.… — Thomas Lloyd Qualls Copy Share Image
Give up all desire for enjoyment in earth or heaven. Control the organs of the senses and control the mind. Bear every… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. ... To group all facts… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Our thoughts are like roots which reach out in every direction into the cosmic ocean of formless energy, and these thought-roots set… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My death is very near to me, and of this I am glad, for I desire to pursue the quest in other… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
No more restless uncertainties, no more anxious desires, no more impatience at the place we are in; for it is God who… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“When you come right down to it, what do you want from your meditation? You meditate to make the mind quiet, and… — Phra Ajaan Suwat Suvaco Copy Share Image
Can you honestly tell me that your great desire is to be holy? Can you honestly tell me your great desire is… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
Our God, who art our winged self, it is thy will in us that willeth. It is thy desire in us that… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
From my earliest childhood I nourished and cherished the desire to make a creditable journey in a new country, and write such… — Joseph Dalton Hooker Copy Share Image
No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I wish it were possible, from this instance, to invent a method of embalming drowned persons in such a manner that they… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Fortunately, the war has brought with it not alone a stark realization of what another war would mean to the world, but… — Cordell Hull Copy Share Image
“The experienced feel love or desire, or both. The inexperienced are sick with a thousand feelings, most of them unformed: fearful that… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
