Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Desire can't be sated, because if it is, the longing disappears and then we've failed, because desire is the state we seek. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Most People have a desire to look for the exception instead of the desire to become exceptional. — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“She'd been in love with the man, and love is a scary thing. If not reciprocated, it can turn a person into… — Michele Young-Stone Copy Share Image
To wait on God is to live a life of desire toward Him, delight in Him, dependence on Him, and devotedness to… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way. — Roman Polanski Copy Share Image
She was trying to sound tough and impatient, but she knew that vulnerable desire to be wooed was still brimming in her… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are moved by every… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At the heart of the mystery of corruption lies the desire of one man to impose his will on others to the… — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
“The loss of an eager and unrestrained longing for someone or the lack of an unyielding desire of momentous incidents in life… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
For original ideas to come about, you have to let them percolate under the level of consciousness in a place where we… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“Like your tastebuds, desires and goals are ever-changing. What used to work, might not do it for you anymore. The question is:… — C. Nzingha Smith Copy Share Image
The yearning for study was always there. I loved to learn. I really enjoyed studying history. Taking college classes was just something… — Nola Ochs Copy Share Image
When you desire the common good, the whole world desires with you. Make humanity's desire your own and work for it. There… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
I wonder how often not the intention but the desire springs up in a doctor's mind: 'Can I let this human being… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
As I had once done thus in my breaking away from my Parents, so I could not be content now, but I… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
We don't ask any people to throw away any good they have got; we only ask them to come and get more.… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
“Like all who are impassioned, I take blissful delight in losing myself, in fully experiencing the thrill of surrender. And so I… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
This human need for mysticism – surrender to an unknown truth, union – stands at the helm of all romantic feeling. It… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
“The greatest remedy in the world is change; and change implies the passing from the old to the new. It is also… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
“I remember being unusually pensive that May evening, perhaps it was the heat of Spring's first warm day which, encountering my thick… — Neal Cassady Copy Share Image
The yearning after equality [in economic outcome] is the offspring of envy and covetousness, and there is no possible plan for satisfying… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
This sense of being made in God's image calls us all constantly to look for it in others and to do what… — Marva Dawn Copy Share Image
![“The yearning after equality [in economic outcome] is the offspring of envy and covetousness, and there is no possible plan for satisfying that yearning which can do aught else than rob A to give to B; consequently all such plans nourish some of the meanest vices of human nature, waste capital, and…” quote by William Graham Sumner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b4/william-graham-sumner-5011_can-do_the-yearning-after-equality-in-economic_454035.png)
