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Why do we focus so intensely on our problems? What draws us to them? Why are they so attractive? They have the magnet power of… — James Hillman
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire. — Simone Weil
We never do what we wish when we wish it, and when we desire a thing earnestly, and it does arrive, that or we are… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Today we love what tomorrow we hate, today we seek what tomorrow we shun, today we desire what tomorrow we fear, nay, even tremble at… — Daniel Defoe
Passion now begins to wake and whom we desire, we will take then we'll cut them down to the quick love itself the cruelest trick.… — Nancy Holder
We are the farmers of the future. If we desire all the gifts of God, if we seek to win the Golden Crown, we can't… — Chris Heimerdinger
I have now been an officer in this Church for a very long time. I am an old man who cannot deny the calendar. I… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to… — Henri Nouwen
We are all these things [...]. Pride, desire, compassion, cleverness, belligerence, fruitfulness, loyalty...and guilt. But above it all stands love. And if we desire to… — Jacqueline Carey
The Lord compensates the faithful for every loss. That which is taken away from those who love the Lord will be added unto them in… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
Be quiet now and wait. It may be that the ocean one, the one we desire so to move into and become, desires us out… — Rumi
To be angry is to yield to the influence of Satan. No one can make us angry. It is our choice. If we desire to… — Thomas S. Monson
... it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire. — Thomas Hobbes
We all need to demand the happiness for ourselves we desire. Fight for it. Wrestle it out of the clenched fist of the world you… — Jewel
If we desire our faith to be strengthened, we should not shrink from opportunities where our faith may be tried, and therefore, through trial, be… — George Muller
It has been said by many great Christians that prayer is our secret weapon. If we desire to be free from every enemy stronghold over… — Leslie Ludy
Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it takes away also the desire… — Giacomo Leopardi
We are captives, even if our wheat grows over the fences/ and swallows rise from our broken chains./ We are captives of what we love,… — Mahmoud Darwish
We are formed by what we desire — John Irving
[I]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing to be good… — Aristotle
Ask him why there are hypocrites in the world.' 'Because it is hard to bear the happiness of others.' 'When are we happy?' 'When we… — Vikram Chandra
The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them.… — Anne Carson
The defect of equality is that we desire it only with our superiors. — Henry Becque
Silence is a strange thing to us who live: we desire it, we fear it, we worship it, we hate it. There is a divinity… — Keith Douglas
"Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem to characterize our age. If we desire sincerely and passionately the safety, the welfare and the free… — Albert Einstein

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