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Image of Alan Watts
For if you know what you want, and will be content with it, you can be trusted. But if you do not know, your desires are limitless and no one can tell how to deal with you. Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
- Alan Watts
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Image of Guillermo del Toro
The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you've been harboring since you were 7.
- Guillermo del Toro
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Image of Charles Spurgeon
When you desire to be most alive to God, you will generally find sin most alive to repel you.
- Charles Spurgeon
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Image of Michel de Montaigne
We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.
- Michel de Montaigne
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Image of Brother Lawrence
Let all our employment be to know God: the more one knows Him, the more one desires to know Him.
- Brother Lawrence
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Image of Brother Lawrence
To worship God in truth is further to admit that we are entirely contrary to Him, and that He is willing to make us like Himself if we desire it. Who will be so imprudent as to turn himself away, even for a moment, from the reverence, love, service and continual adoration which we most justly owe Him?
- Brother Lawrence
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Image of Alan Sugar
There was a desire to see me being nasty and horrible, and of course that's not really me
- Alan Sugar
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Image of Horace
He who has enough for his wants should desire nothing more.
- Horace
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Image of Christian Nestell Bovee
The natural wants are few, and easily gratified: it is only those which are artificial that perplex us by their multiplicity.
- Christian Nestell Bovee
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Image of Rumi
Let a thousand wrangling desires become one Love.
- Rumi
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Image of Elizabeth Smart
I am overrun, infested with a menagerie of desires.
- Elizabeth Smart
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Image of Cate Blanchett
You can only desire something that you've already had in your life.
- Cate Blanchett
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Image of Bill Vaughan
He (God) doesn't need me, but He desires me.
- Bill Vaughan
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Image of Francis Quarles
He that discovers himself, till he hath made himself master of his desires, lays himself open to his own ruin, and makes himself prisoner to his own tongue.
- Francis Quarles
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Image of Russell Brand
It doesn't take an incredible manner of analysis to reveal that our primary desires are incessantly stimulated to keep us basic consumers.
- Russell Brand
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Image of Harold Ramis
I've always had that overweening desire to be liked by the audience.
- Harold Ramis
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Image of Zig Ziglar
Desire is the great equalizer.
- Zig Ziglar
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Image of Christopher Moore
Abby: I could be a slave to your darkest desires. I can do things. Anything you want. Tommy: Well, that's terrific, because we have a lot of laundry piled up and the apartment is a wreck. Abby: Anything you desire, my lord. I can do laundry, clean, bring you small creatures to quench your thirst until I am worthy.
- Christopher Moore
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Image of Christopher Moore
Hope is merely another face of desire.
- Christopher Moore
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Image of Pliny the Elder
The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
- Pliny the Elder
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Image of David A. Bednar
The enabling power of the Atonement strengthens us to do and be good and to serve beyond our own individual desire and natural capacity.
- David A. Bednar
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Image of Smith Wigglesworth
Desire God, and you will have desires from God.
- Smith Wigglesworth
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Image of Horace
Naked I seek the camp of those who desire nothing.
- Horace
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Image of Bertrand Russell
In action, in desire, we must submit perpetually to the tyranny of outside forces; but in thought, in aspiration, we are free, free from our fellowmen, free from the petty planet on which our bodies impotently crawl, free even, while we live, from the tyranny of death.
- Bertrand Russell
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Image of George Bernard Shaw
Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.
- George Bernard Shaw
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Image of Sathya Sai Baba
Desire is a bonfire that burns with greater fury, asking for more fuel.
- Sathya Sai Baba
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Image of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Image of William Blake
He who has few things to desire cannot have many to fear.
- William Blake
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Image of Horace
Be not for ever harassed by impotent desire.
- Horace
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Image of Lucy Maud Montgomery
Desire grows by what it feeds on.
- Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Image of Iris Murdoch
When does one ever know a human being? Perhaps only after one has realized the impossibility of knowledge and renounced the desire for it and finally ceased to feel even the need of it. But then what one achieves is no longer knowledge, it is simply a kind of co-existence; and this too is one of the guises of love.
- Iris Murdoch
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Image of R. C. Sproul
At the moment I sin, I desire the sin more than I desire to please God.
- R. C. Sproul
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Image of Denzel Washington
So the desire you have, that itch that you have to be whatever it is you want to be ... that itch, that desire for good is God’s proof to you sent already to indicate that it’s yours. You already have it. Claim it.
- Denzel Washington
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Image of Susan Sontag
Desire has no history.
- Susan Sontag
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Image of Anna Godbersen
She was trying to sound tough and impatient, but she knew that vulnerable desire to be wooed was still brimming in her tone.
- Anna Godbersen
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Image of Jane Addams
The impulse to share the lives of the poor, the desire to make social service, irrespective of propaganda, express the spirit of Christ, is as old as Christianity itself.
- Jane Addams
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Image of William Butler Yeats
The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained.
- William Butler Yeats
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Image of Tara Brach
Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.
- Tara Brach
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Image of Booth Tarkington
The only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.
- Booth Tarkington
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Image of John Ruskin
I desire ... to leave this one great fact clearly stated. THERE IS NO WEALTH BUT LIFE.
- John Ruskin
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Image of Arnold Palmer
A lot of tournaments that I can remember I made a few bad shots and I was afraid I would lose the tournament and it seemed to work, the putts seemed to go in. Just the Desire.
- Arnold Palmer
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Image of Wallace D. Wattles
Power seeking to manifest causes desire within you.
- Wallace D. Wattles
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Image of Ramakrishna
The truth is that you cannot attain God if you have even a trace of desire. Subtle is the way of dharma. If you are trying to thread a needle, you will not succeed if the thread has even a slight fiber sticking out.
- Ramakrishna
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Image of Simone Weil
We should desire neither the immortality nor the death of any human being, whoever he may be, with whom we have to do.
- Simone Weil
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Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Image of Henry Ward Beecher
There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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Image of Hannah More
Those who want nothing are apt to forget how many there are who want every thing.
- Hannah More
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Image of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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