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Desire Quotes by Rebecca Solnit
- For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of horizons, of remote…
- The new architecture and urban design of segregation could be called Calvinist: they reflect a desire to live in a world of predestination rather than…
- We treat desire as a problem to be solved, address what desire is for and focus on that something and how to acquire it rather…
- You get lost out of a desire to be lost. But in the place called lost strange things are found...
- The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of intersection of all…
- Getting lost was not a matter of geography so much as identity, a passionate desire, even an urgent need, to become no one and anyone,…
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
- Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. — Neil Armstrong
- I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly… — Chinua Achebe
- Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first… — Saint Augustine
- Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires. — Saint Augustine