Desire Quote by Leo Tolstoy Download Open image “When you feel the desire for power, you should stay in solitude for some time” — Leo Tolstoy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire Desire for power Feels Inspirational Should Solitude Time
As you become a powerful person, it becomes increasingly important to have periods of solitude. Take a weekend by yourself. Go up into the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Solitude is fine when you are at peace with yourself and have something definite to do. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Solitude is one of our great superpowers... Solitude is the key to being able to make effective decisions and then having the courage of… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Solitude is impractical, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other. The conditions are met,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are times when you seek your solitude, and your solitude just wants to be left alone. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Solitude is a time when you go into a determined period of making the best of your time.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that solitude is a challenge and to maintain balance within it a precarious business. But I must not forget that, for me, being with people or even with one beloved person for any length of time without solitude is even worse. I lose my center. I feel dispersed, scattered, in pieces. I must have time alone… — May Sarton Copy Share
These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I already love in you your beauty, but I am only beginning to love in you that which is eternal and ever precious –… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“If you only knew what those society women are, and women in general! My father is right. Selfish, vain, stupid, trivial in everything—that's what… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He knew she was there by the rapture and the terror that seized on his heart. She was standing talking to a lady at… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command… — Leo Tolstoy 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
I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image