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Image of Alister E. McGrath
Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone.
- Alister E. McGrath
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Image of Jada Pinkett Smith
Don't take your health for granted. Don't take your body for granted. Do something today that communicates to your body that you desire to care for it. Tomorrow is not promised.
- Jada Pinkett Smith
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Image of Jada Pinkett Smith
Don't trap yourself with the desire of wanting to be liked.
- Jada Pinkett Smith
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Image of David Brainerd
Let me forget the world and be swallowed up in the desire to glorify God.
- David Brainerd
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Image of Vladimir Nabokov
I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.
- Vladimir Nabokov
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Image of Christian D. Larson
One of the principal reasons why so many fail to get what they want is because they do not definitely know what they want, or because they change their wants almost every day. Know what you want and continue to want it. You will get it if you combine desire with faith. The power of desire when combined with faith becomes invincible.
- Christian D. Larson
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Image of Nick Bantock
She who licks her lips knows the taste of her lover's desires
- Nick Bantock
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Image of Sylvia Plath
I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
- Sylvia Plath
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Image of Anne Boleyn
And thus I take my leave of the world and of you all, and I heartily desire you all to pray for me.
- Anne Boleyn
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Image of Os Guinness
Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires.
- Os Guinness
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Image of Mark Epstein
To free desire from the tendency to cling, we have to be willing to stumble over ourselves.
- Mark Epstein
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Image of Marcel Proust
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
- Marcel Proust
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Image of Sinead O'Connor
Women are to be valued for so much more than their sexuality. We aren’t merely objects of desire.
- Sinead O'Connor
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Image of Monique Truong
The irony of acquiring a foreign tongue is that I have amassed just enough cheap, serviceable words to fuel my desires and never, never enough lavish, impudent ones to feed them.
- Monique Truong
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Image of Della Reese
If you're not getting the things you want, need or desire, it's because you have not accepted that you can have them.
- Della Reese
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Image of Virginia Woolf
I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
- Virginia Woolf
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Image of Max Beckmann
The stronger and more intense my desire becomes to capture and record that which is unsayable, the more tightly my mouth stays shut.
- Max Beckmann
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Image of Marquis de Sade
One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
- Marquis de Sade
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Image of Georges Bataille
You perhaps now know that desire reduces us to pulp.
- Georges Bataille
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Image of Mike Murdock
Sometimes you have to do something you dislike to create something you desire.
- Mike Murdock
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Image of Luce Irigaray
Every desire has a relation to madness.
- Luce Irigaray
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Image of Jo Nesbo
There’s only one thing worse than not satisfying a desire. And that is not to feel any desire.
- Jo Nesbo
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Image of Philip Kitcher
Science literacy consists in the ability and the desire to follow reports of new scientific advances, throughout your whole life.
- Philip Kitcher
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Image of Ibn Arabi
Oh, Lord, nourish me not with love, but with the desire for love.
- Ibn Arabi
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Image of Leo Hindery
As a corporation, you cannot let the desire for unanimity override your obligation for fairness.
- Leo Hindery
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Image of R. T. Kendall
You are probably at your sanest when you come to the place where you abandon all else but your desire for God.
- R. T. Kendall
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Image of Rod Stryker
I am moved by the desire to see and to be seen, to grow and to unveil the mysteries of life and, at the same time, by the aspiration that life will continue to reveal new mysteries and new possibilities.
- Rod Stryker
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Image of Rod Stryker
Desire, instead of being an obstacle to an inspired and fulfilled life, is the very thing that propels you toward it.
- Rod Stryker
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Image of Rod Stryker
It's vital to understand that while you are alive, there is no end to desire, since the seed of your every thought and your every action is a desire.
- Rod Stryker
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Image of Thomas F. Wilson
The fewer desires, the more peace.
- Thomas F. Wilson
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Image of Vivian Gornick
The desire for narration keeps on reasserting itself, so that since modernism and fiction brought narration to an end, it is sought in memoirs.
- Vivian Gornick
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Image of Walter Hilton
I desire the love of God not because I am worthy, but because I am unworthy.
- Walter Hilton
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Image of John Vanbrugh
The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.
- John Vanbrugh
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Image of Ken Danby
Desire is everything, not talent. It's the degree of one's desire that will dictate the extent of one's success, in any endeavour.
- Ken Danby
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Image of Lois McMaster Bujold
When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
- Lois McMaster Bujold
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Image of James Turrell
My desire is to set up a situation to which I take you and let you see. It becomes your experience.
- James Turrell
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Image of Marie Bashkirtseff
I want to live faster, faster, faster! ... I fear that this desire to live always at high pressure is the presage of a short existence. Who knows?
- Marie Bashkirtseff
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Image of Marie Bashkirtseff
... I will never love, for I should never be loved as I desire to be loved.
- Marie Bashkirtseff
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Image of Anne Carson
When I desire you a part of me is gone.
- Anne Carson
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Image of James Arthur Ray
When your intention is great enough you will ALWAYS find the time and energy to accomplish your desires. You can state excuses to the contrary, but holding on to your old stories is just another way of wasting precious time.
- James Arthur Ray
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Image of Jacob Moleschott
Courage, cheerfulness, and a desire to work depends mostly on good nutrition.
- Jacob Moleschott
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Image of Francine du Plessix Gray
Americans and their desire to be novelists, the American novel should be listed in medical dictionaries alongside Megalomania and Obsessional Neuroses.
- Francine du Plessix Gray
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Image of Zhuge Liang
Detach from emotions and desires; get rid of any fixations.
- Zhuge Liang
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Image of Brian Herbert
Let the future remain uncertain, for that is the canvas to receive our desires.
- Brian Herbert
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Image of Geoffrey Chaucer
Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
- Geoffrey Chaucer
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Image of Nicholas of Cusa
All things are in the intended endpoint, and this mode of being is called will or desire.
- Nicholas of Cusa
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Image of Nicholas of Cusa
Since beings desire to exist, because to exist is a good thing: they desire the One without which they cannot exist.
- Nicholas of Cusa
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Image of Alexander McCall Smith
The Culture of Complaint... We live in a culture of complaint because everyone is always looking for things to complain about. It's all tied in with the desire to blame others for misfortunes and to get some form of compensation into the bargain.
- Alexander McCall Smith
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