And more than once in the course of time, the same theme reappears: among the mystics of the fifteenth century, it has… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Without the power of intelligence there is no capacity for spiritual knowledge; and without spiritual knowledge we cannot have the faith from… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
It is the natural desire of each nation to use the other as an instrument of its own purposes and policies. By… — Kingman Brewster, Jr Copy Share Image
Our Father awaits us with great zeal and desire, and with love He will see us returning from afar, and He will… — Tikhon of Zadonsk Copy Share Image
“It's funny. Looking back, none of it seems to matter now, those moments of yearning, craving to belong with people I thought… — Rebecca Harris Copy Share Image
You cannot do a goal. Long-term planning and goal-setting must therefore be complemented by short-term planning. This kind of planning requires specifying… — Alan Lakein Copy Share Image
My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Dogs invite us not only to share their joy but also to live in the moment, where we are neither proceeding from… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
One of those disturbing tendencies in academic life is that there is a desire on the part of many in the name… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
“There was more, he was sure. He could feel it. Something deeper. More profound. More worthy. More likeable. It was like a… — Alan McCluskey 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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
“Even though still young, I did not know what it was to experience the clear-cut feeling of platonic love. Was this a… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
She says, "But in contentment I still feel The need for imperishable bliss." Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her,… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Three and a half years in L.A. was enough for me. I would love to go back for short bursts if a… — Darren Boyd Copy Share Image
Our yearnings are homesicknesses for heaven; our sighings are for God, just as children that cry themselves asleep away from home, and… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Men and women are made for each other, but their mutual dependence differs in degrees; man is dependent on woman through his… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up. Like a… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Unless the desire to change remains strong, body and mind tend to return to old, familiar patterns. It takes time-from three to… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
Your desire to please... actors are people pleasers and if somebody says your vocal choice in this was ridiculous or whatever you… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
Why had we let it go? Why had we both been condemned...to an exile among dreary strangers who had made us give… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Lust is a mysterious wound in the side of humanity; or rather, at the very source of its life! To confound this… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
“...if there really is some day discovered a formula for all our desires and caprices - that is, an explanation of what… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Because you have seen something doesn't mean you can explain it. Differing interpretations will always abound, even when good minds come to… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
Though Jack Nubbins was extremely talented, Quenten Cassidy had viewed the Specter; when he reached down through the familiar layers of gloom… — John L. Parker Jr Copy Share Image
I honestly believe that if you are willing to out-condition the opponent, have confidence in your ability, be more aggressive than your… — Bear Bryant Copy Share Image
Madness will push you anywhere it wants. It never tells you where you're going, or why. It tells you it doesn't matter.… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
The King saw them with no common satisfaction, expressing his desire in no particular to have yt Stellar fish engraven and printed.… — Henry Oldenburg Copy Share Image
Politics of all sorts, I confess, are far beyond my limited powers of comprehension. Those of this country as far as I… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
How we live is determined by what is ultimately fueling us - our deepest desire or end goal. Do we really want… — Kenneth Boa Copy Share Image
When we give help to the poor, we are not doing the work of aid agencies 'in a Christian way'. Those are… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
We need to surrender our attachments to government in every aspect of life. We need to give up our dependencies on the… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“And you that sought for magic in your youth but desire it not in your age, know that there is a blindness… — Lord Dunsany Copy Share Image
Nothing is more human than for man to desire naturally things impossible to his nature. It is, indeed, the property of a… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
