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" Quotes and Sayings About desire

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.

Aim Choice Desire Doing
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It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.

Against Contend Cost Desire
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Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires, converting luxuries into necessities, but it only intensifies man's inner misery. The business world is bent on creating hungers which its wares never satisfy, and thus it adds to the frustrations and broken minds of our times.

Advertising Tries Stimulate Sensuous
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Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.

Show Me Desire Shows Something
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I have no desire to prove anything by dancing. I have never used it as an outlet or a means of expressing myself. I just dance. I just put my feet in the air and move them around.

Air Anything Around Dance
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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
Believing Create Desired Does
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

Being Clever Us Desire
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As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.

Arise Attaining Become Desire
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

Almost Contradiction Courage Desire
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From a child, I had an inordinate desire for knowledge and especially music, painting, flowers, and the sciences, Algebra being one of my favorite studies.

Algebra Being Child Desire
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The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligation - to help them turn this desire into reality.

Desire East Freedom Help
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I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this.

Desire End Felt Heard
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A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.

Desire Either End Image
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If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

Another Desire Experience Explanation
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Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.

Believe Desire He Know
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Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

Arouse Authenticity Desire Hard
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Boredom: the desire for desires.

Boredom Desire For Happiness
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We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.

Cease Decrease Desire Growth
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Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

Accomplishment Achieve Achievement Course
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I've never eaten a strawberry in my life. I have no desire to do that.

Desire Eaten Life My Life
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I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

After Death Desire General
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There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.

Because Desire Fear Here
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'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

Certain Desire Life Prolongs
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Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.

Allah Angels Desire Earth
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I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that's always existed.

Always Core Desire Existed
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The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

Along Desire Disappointment Dream
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If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

Avoid Desire Instruments Insult
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It's a beautiful thing, the desire to help a fellow human who is maybe in a rough spot.

Beautiful Beautiful Thing Desire Fellow
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I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn't want them either, so it worked out well.

Children Desire Well Either
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

Come Deadliest Deepest Desires
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The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Appear Desire Endeavor Gain
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Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Derives Desires Fact Falls
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The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.
Acknowledged Deepest Desire Human
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If you want to be popular and famous, you can do it; it's dead easy if you have that ego desire. But most of my ego desires as far as being famous and successful were fulfilled a long time ago.

As Far As Being Being Famous Dead
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I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
Break Desire Future No Future
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Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

Always Answers Desires Disappoint
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Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

Also Beings Deeds Desires
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I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.

Best Characteristic Desire Jewish
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

According Between Desires Every
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

Converse Desire He Man
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Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Answer Any Bear Blossom
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One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

Desires Endeavor Excel Excellent
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Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

Controlling Desire Desired Enjoyment
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It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Creates Desire Intense Intense Desire
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It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

Awareness Desires Destiny Feeling
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Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

Been Desire Every Every Heart
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There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.

Desire Grows Invisible Objects
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Really, what I try to instill in my fans is to be healthy and happy. I have no desire to be super-skinny.
Really What Try Instill
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I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

Arise Between Day Desire
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Make it absolutely clear to yourself what you want from other people. That is really half the secret for drawing your desire to you in the shortest possible time and with the least amount of effort.

Absolutely Amount Clear Desire
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