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Desire Quotes by Wendell Berry
- Soil is not usually lost in slabs or heaps of magnificent tonnage. It is lost a little at a time over millions of acres by…
- Love is never abstract. It does not adhere to the universe or the planet or the nation or the institution or the profession, but to…
- There are, it seems, two muses: The Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns again…
- All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride of excess or power, but the contentments made by men who have…
- There are some things the arrogant mind does not see; it is blinded by its vision of what it desires.
- As I age in the world it will rise and spread, and be for this place horizon and orison, the voice of its winds. I…
- To mind being disliked by a woman you don’t desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense.
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