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Desire Quotes by Thomas Stearns Eliot
- Not less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past.
- I do not approve the extermination of the enemy; the policy of exterminating or, as it is barbarously said, liquidating enemies, is one of the…
- That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented…
- If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you,…
- April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.
- life is long between the desire and the spasm.
- Between the desire And the spasm, Between the potency And the existence, Between the essence And the descent, Falls the Shadow.
- Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom Between the conception And the…
- To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.
- Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.
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- 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