Desire Quote by Heraclitus Download Open image ““To fight with desire is hard: whatever it wishes it buys at the price of a soul.”” — Heraclitus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire Heraclitus Spirituality
“It is hard to fight with one's heart's desires; whatever it wishes to get, it purchases at the cost of the soul.” — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“You are what you desire. You may live with desires and determine all that you want; But your actions determine what and how much… — Gian Kumar Copy Share Image
“Desire was its own reward, and a rarer luxury than you'd think. You could sometimes buy what you wanted; you could never buy wanting… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“Desire always breeds more desire. Eventually, it becomes difficult to control.” — Andy Raskin Copy Share Image
“What kind of deal is it to get everything you want but lose yourself? What could you ever trade your soul for?” — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“All you have to do is ask for it.” It’s like the devil offering up your deepest desire for the low, low price of… — Meghan March Copy Share Image
“But I do think that when we choose the easy path, where people or society reward us for being what they want us to… — Bill Konigsberg Copy Share Image
“You can get what you want. You have to passionately seek the life you desire.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“A soul for a piece of bread. Misery makes the offer; society accepts.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“These are the times that try men's souls...yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Give me excess of love, whatever it costs. We pay with our souls, and if we die with our souls intact we know we… — Louise Carey Copy Share Image
Those unmindful when they hear, for all they make of their intelligence, may be regarded as the walking dead. — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
Men who are lovers of wisdom [i.e., philosophers] must be inquirers into many things. — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
We do not step in the same river twice, for the waters have moved on and we too have changed. — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is… — John Burns Copy Share Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
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