The desire to kill is like the desire to attack another with a red hot iron. I have to pick up the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
His desire to bless you goes infinitely beyond your own personal desire to secure His blessing. There is always peace in His… — Frances J Roberts Copy Share Image
No more Internet. No more social media, no more scrolling through litanies of dreams and nervous hopes and photographs of lunches, cries… — Emily St. John Mandel Copy Share Image
“Just wish it. But remember, it will only work if it's what you most desire. Do it now. We're running out of… — Suzanne Selfors Copy Share Image
If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There are certain vulnerabilities and insecurities that go along with not being linked to another person in a contractual way, even if… — Jamie Johnson Copy Share Image
In the sort of screen dappled with different states of mind which my consciousness would simultaneously unfold while I read, and which… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives, the will to follow an ideal,… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
... if you desire to marry you must realize that a mistress is won by the good temper and grace displayed while… — Thoinot Arbeau Copy Share Image
“To be Kaspar Hauser is to long, at every moment of your dubious existence, with every fiber of your questionable being, not… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being. As a solitary being, he attempts to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Aware of our deep failings, we pour contempt on our own hearts for wanting more. Oh, we long for intimacy and for… — Stasi Eldredge Copy Share Image
There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Coherence and closure are deep human desires that are presently unfashionable. But they are always both frightening and enchantingly desirable. "Falling in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ask him why there are hypocrites in the world.' 'Because it is hard to bear the happiness of others.' 'When are we… — Vikram Chandra Copy Share Image
At the heart of our desires is eternal happiness without the slightest hint of misery. You could say that we are pleasure… — Terry Cole-Whittaker Copy Share Image
We are all dropped into our lives on this planet with a limited amount of time and cosmic understanding, yet we know… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
The Christian who desires to follow Jesus carrying his cross must bear in mind that the name "Christian" means "learner or imitator… — Anthony Mary Claret Copy Share Image
“But ever since the dawn of civilization, people have not been content to see events as unconnected and inexplicable. They have craved… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Team learning is the Process of aligning and developing the capacity of a team to create the results its members desire. It… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
Look at the political base of the Democratic Party: It is single mothers who run a household. Why? Because it's so tough… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
Oscar Pistorius is on the cusp of a paradigm shift in which disability becomes ability, disadvantage becomes advantage. Yet we mustn't lose… — Oscar Pistorius Copy Share Image
“Poem of the Song About Hope" I. Give me lilies, lilies, And roses too. But if you have no lilies Or roses… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
My third maxim was to try always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and to change my desires rather than the order… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
The most desirable mode of education, is that which is careful that all the acquisitions of the pupil shall be preceded and… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The promise of aspiration is that it is evolutionary. The human condition is such that we are always aspiring to be something… — Lorii Myers Copy Share Image
I'd once been fascinated by his legend - all the stories I'd heard before I met him. Now I can feel that… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
Proselytizing is more a passionate search for something not yet found than a desire to bestow upon the world something we already… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Blaming the imperialists nowadays is obviously absurd, as is blaming the Americans, who obviously don't have the slightest desire to control anything… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
Sloth is the desire for ease, even at the expense of doing the known will of God. Whatever we do in life… — John Hardon Copy Share Image
“By nature independent, gay, even exuberant, seductively responsive and given to those spontaneous sallies that sparkle in the conversation of certain daughters… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“Could we possibly be from the place we want to be? Were we from the place we died rather than the place… — Joe Coomer Copy Share Image
In the world of football and of sport in general there is still a taboo around homosexuality. Everyone ought to live freely… — Cesare Prandelli Copy Share Image
While extremely sensitive as to the slightest approach to slander, you must also guard against an extreme into which some people fall,… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
