If you desire ease, forsake learning. If you desire learning, forsake ease. — Nagarjun Copy Share Image
Men are more ready to offend one who desires to be beloved than one who wishes to be feared. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
My job as a designer is done when my clothes inspire freedom in Muslim women to adopt fashion the way they desire. — Masaba Gupta Copy Share Image
Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires. — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Desire is what takes the hot water of mediocrity and turns it into the steam of outstanding success. — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
Ladies, The next time you decide to try to reason with a MAN, BANG your HEAD against a BRICK WALL until the… — Hussein Nishah Copy Share Image
I think everyone has the desire in their life to be the best at something that touches them, that reaches them. — Cat Zingano Copy Share Image
Cooking for a crowd during the holidays takes a lot of time and effort, so we understand the desire to outsource as… — Claire Saffitz Copy Share Image
I don't think women are, by definition, toxic to one another. I think women are simultaneously competitive toward and idolatrous of each… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
“I had only one desire: to leave, to walk, to die, whatever. I wanted to get away, never come back, disappear, melt… — Ágota Kristof Copy Share Image
Balancing hopes, desires and an appreciating of the possibilities with a clear-eyed assessment of the limitations: that is the art of choosing. — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
I see the notion of talent as quite irrelevant. I see instead perseverance, application, industry, assiduity, will, will, will, desire, desire, desire. — Gordon Lish Copy Share Image
The organic laws of construction tangled me in my desires, and only with great pain, effort, and struggle did I break through… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf.… — Tiger Woods Copy Share Image
But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Having a band was part of my heart's desire, musically. Within myself, I was saying that, 'Not until you have a band… — Burning Spear Copy Share Image
We can have wilderness without freedom; we can have wilderness without human life at all, but we cannot have freedom without wilderness,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Reality is much more complex than any judgment of right and wrong encourages you to believe. When you really understand the ethical,… — Michael Lerner Copy Share Image
Life is short and tedious, and is wholly spent in wishing; we trust to find rest and enjoyment at some future time,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
What you call love does not sound very beautiful. Think of the way we adore the Throne. That adoration makes us the… — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
If you can come to this nowness without sex, sex, by and by will become useless, it will disappear. It will not… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The Scoutmaster guides the boy in the spirit of an older brother... He has simply to be a boy-man, that is: (1)… — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
Meditation is not the construction of something foreign, it is not an effort to attain and then hold on to a particular… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
And thus I take my leave of the world and of you all, and I heartily desire you all to pray for… — Anne Boleyn Copy Share Image
Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I think when you're knee-deep in coming up with editorial plans, the desire to sit down and pencil something is pretty strong. — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
Only when we can accept God as he is can we give up the desire for spiritual experiences that we can feel. — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe? — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs. — Norbert of Xanten Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as love at first sight, its only lust for that someone who you just have to ride. — Kos Copy Share Image
“I do not mind when you tell me what you want and put that first instead of last.” — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
The greatest assassin of life is haste, the desire to reach things before the right time which means overreaching them. — Juan Ramon Jimenez Copy Share Image
“Ah, my wee sprite." He released the lock of hair and leaned closer. "If learning to fly is your desire, then fly… — Desiree Williams Copy Share Image
I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Desire is always followed by boredom. And only love can defeat boredom. Love with a capital L; we all dream of it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When you look at me, tease my desire with a mere gaze, it shreds the edges of my soul…” — Yvonne Nicolas Copy Share Image
