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Desire Quotes by Elwyn Brooks White
- It's hard to know when to respond to the seductiveness of the world and when to respond to its challenge. If the world were merely…
- Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard to plan the…
- I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to…
- An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.
- I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to…
More Desire Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire… — Aristotle
- Listen to what you know instead of what you fear. — Richard Bach