I'm sorry for the anguished hearts that break with passion's strain, But I'm sorrier for the poor starved souls that never knew… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Since the tapestry of all time has already been woven, everything I could ever want to happen in my life already exists… — Anita Moorjani Copy Share Image
Because life is short. I feel we’re made of a hunger, a desire for life – if that can be described as… — Sarah Slean Copy Share Image
The novel...creates a bemusing effect. The short story, on the other hand wakes the reader up. Not only that, it answers the… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
For all of the advice in the magazines on "How to Keep your Love Alive," the salvation of love is not the… — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
“The air was heavy with the musty smell of humanity. But they danced furiously as though impelled by some strange power within… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I could barely speak after I was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers. I was going to play for the defending Super… — Jerry Rice Copy Share Image
There is no masculine psychology in my cinema. There is only the resentments and desires of women. A man should not attempt… — Catherine Breillat Copy Share Image
Surrender your will to Him. Unconditionally. Withhold nothing. Turn it all over to Him; all of your desires, wishes, dreams and hopes.… — Lawrence E. Corbridge Copy Share Image
“People sometimes imagine that without desire there would be no enjoyment. The opposite is true. When you're caught up in craving, you… — Lorne Ladner Copy Share Image
I want to take you for pleasure, and hold you in my arms for desire. I want you to know that it… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
If I am acting out in any particular way that is harmful to myself - without a shadow of doubt, there is… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
Ethics cannot be based upon our obligations toward people, but they are complete and natural only when we feel this Reverence for… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
It is not the act of making art that is painful. It is the desire to make something and not acting on… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
What was I afraid of, exactly? What other people would think? I guess, a little. But that wasn't what was stopping me… — Julie Anne Peters Copy Share Image
I have no personal desire to get married whatsoever and I certainly have no desire to be a soldier. I'm old school,… — Cleve Jones Copy Share Image
Every relationship for a Christian is an opportunity to love another person like God has loved us. To lay down our desires… — Joshua Harris Copy Share Image
It's like a weird mindset to wake up and want to be wanted. Like, I want to be wanted so much already...… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
All people - African, European, American - worry about being different. But I've learned that the traits we'd rush to get rid… — Freida Pinto Copy Share Image
To put is still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have found strength where one does not look for it: in simple, mild, and pleasant people, without the least desire to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Glowing in my heart, like the flames of quaint fireplaces. Craving, burning inside as molten rocks of volcanoes, burning slowly in unmoved… — Amany Al-Hallaq Copy Share Image
In the time it takes for her to walk from the bathhouse at the seawall of Fortune's Rocks, where she has left… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
“Through my history's despite and ruin, I have come to its remainder, and here have made the beginning of a farm intended… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Renunciation - non-resistance - non-destructiveness - are the ideals to be attained through less and less worldliness, less and less resistance, less… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Your will is the ego part of you that believes you're separate from others, separate from what you'd like to accomplish or… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
If you truly desire money so keenly that your desire is an obsession, you will have no difficulty in convincing yourself that… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was… — Frederic William Maitland Copy Share Image
Turkish society is divided not only culturally but also politically. You're either conservative or progressive. Islamist or secular. Right wing or left… — Burhan Sonmez Copy Share Image
“Sang Ly, the desire to believe, to look forward to better days, to want them, to expect them-it seems to be ingrained… — Camron Wright Copy Share Image
Kant ... was also quite aware that "the urgent need" of reason is both different from and "more than mere quest and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
But the older he grew and the more intimately he came to know his brother, the oftener the thought occurred to him… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“When one's mind dwells on the objects of Senses, fondness for them grows on him, from fondness comes desire, from desire anger. Anger leads to… — Lord Krishna Copy Share Image
We are afraid that Heaven is a bribe, and that if we make it our goal we shall no longer be disinterested.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I marveled at them both; how difficult it must be to be a person. To constantly subvert your desires. To worry about… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
“Superiority complex does not mean "pride" although it appears to be so in the eyes of those who want to see it… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
What do we look for as reward? Some little sounds, and scents, and scenes A small hand darting strawberry-ward A woman's aprons… — Ruth Pitter Copy Share Image
Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different...I claimed myself and remade my life. Only when I knew I… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
There is no captive in a worse state than the one who is captivated by his worst enemy (Shaytan) and there is… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image