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I believe that happiness consists in having a destiny in keeping with our abilities. Our desires are things of the moment, often harmful even to… — Madame de Stael
Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism. — Edward Gibbon
First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time. — Douglas Horton
Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. — Elbert Hubbard
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal. — Victor Hugo
Our visions begin with our desires. — Audre Lorde
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again… — Nelson Mandela
When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more… — Joyce Meyer
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires. — Petrarch
Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires. — Bertrand Russell
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing. — Samuel Smiles
Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires. — Wallace Stevens
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. — Jonathan Swift
The love of Christ reaches to the very depths of earthly misery and woe, or it would not meet the case of the veriest sinner.… — Ellen G. White
Like our bodies and like our desires, the machines we have devised are possessed of a heart which is slowly reduced to embers. — W G Sebald
The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires. Thus always the human condition faces… — Frank Herbert
My experiences of men has neither disposed me to think worse of them nor be indisposed to serve them: nor, in spite of failures which… — Robert E. Lee
What if evil doesn't really exist? What if evil is something dreamed up by man, and there is nothing to struggle against except out own… — Libba Bray
...your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments; hence,… — Marquis de Sade
No, the secret is that there's no reward and we have to endure our characters and our natures as best we can, because no amount… — SÃ¡ndor MÃ¡rai
Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamoured for it. — Marcel Proust
As we grow detached from things, we come (with God's help) to master our desires, and we give the mastery over to God. Discipline and… — Scott Hahn
Imagine that human existence is defined by an Ache: the Ache of our not being, each of us, the center of the universe; of our… — Jonathan Franzen
She says, "But in contentment I still feel The need for imperishable bliss." Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come… — Wallace Stevens
What is stronger in us — passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only… — Nikolai Gogol

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