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I am, I am not, I will be, I will not be are vein thoughts which is a sickness and once all are eliminated no desire arises. — Gautama Buddha

Hollywood can be brutal, inhuman, the opposite of what the theatre is, and I had little desire to be part of it. — Joyce DeWitt

Not even a book on prosperity can prosper you, when what is expected of you is given, your time won't be wasted. — Michael Bassey Johnson

He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well. — Baltasar Gracian

A selfless act out of even the purest desire to do for others, will be selfish in the satisfaction and happiness it brings to one doing it. — Ashly Lorenzana

I am grim of mind and wrathful of spirit and I have no desire to be nice to anyone, — Neil Gaiman

God desires to reveal to us that His capacity to forgive is bigger than our capacity to sin. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

All victims have experienced a loss-a thwarted desire or aspiration-even if they're not aware of it. — David Emerald Womeldorff

Everything you want is just outside your comfort zone. — Robert Allen

Desire and dedication are everything! — Bart Starr

The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation. — Jean De La Bruyere

The acme of freedom from wealth is to desire to be possessionless even as others desire to possess. — Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

All she felt was pity, and pity was death to desire — George R R Martin

A desire to become a more loving, better, and beautiful person is the key to all enduring success. — Debasish Mridha

Expect the best, not the worst, and you will attain your heart's desire. — Norman Vincent Peale

All roads are long which lead to one's heart's desire. — Joseph Conrad

Desire only God, and your heart will be satisfied. — Saint Augustine

Full of magick and desire ... Lydia Dare casts a spell on her readers! - Susan at Love Romance Passion — Lydia Dare

I believe people have the right to diminish themselves if they so desire. I — Simon Strantzas

Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification. — Joseph Campbell

Love is the crocodile in the river of desire. — Bhartrihari

Discipline imposed from the outside eventually defeats when it is not matched by desire from within. — Dawson Trotman

Desire denied consumes — Skyler White

I had possessed her - and she never knew it. — Vladimir Nabokov

Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us. — Ronald Reagan

Human beings are very complex creatures. This desire, this greed, this love is very complex. — Yash Chopra

Her husband's desire had always been more to chase and capture the gleam of the person inside the body than the body itself. — Lauren Groff

True Artistic Freedom is in Having No Desire Of Rewards — Dean Cavanagh

Some people have a desire to be with the same sex. But that's them. — Stevie Wonder

Resistance to temptation means taking desire seriously. Both Jesus and Satan do. — Russell D. Moore

If I have you for a day, I'll want you for a week. If I have you for a week, I'll want you for another week. — Michael Stein

[The seers call him wise] whose every attempt is free, without any desire for gain, without any selfishness. — Swami Vivekananda

Pentecost is a celebration of God ... a celebration of God's power ... a celebration of God's desire to empower us and to dwell within us. — Mark Hart

You can get what you want. It depends on the strength of your desire. — Lailah Gifty Akita

What do you desire? What makes you itch? What sort of a situation would you like? — Alan W. Watts

The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man's slavery — Paramahansa Yogananda

All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away. — Sri Aurobindo

Preaching, then, is proclaiming God's desire to take hearers from where they are to where God wants them to be through the gospel. — Julius J. Kim

Eros, again now, the loosener of limbs troubles me,
Bittersweet, sly, uncontrollable creature ... . — Sappho

I'm in training to become a midwife. I'm almost there and before I know it I'll be able to open my own practice, if that's what I desire. — Erykah Badu

He who does not desire power is fit to hold it. — Plato

Oh shit, another guy who doesn't talk. Is this what makes women lesbians? The desire to have a good conversation? — Caroline Hanson

I have no desire to make money off musicians. I just want to promote them because I want to share music. — Zach Braff

I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was. — Robert Smith

Pride and hope and desire like crushed herbs in his heart sent up vapours of maddening incense before the eyes of his mind. — James Joyce

Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home. — Novalis

I was Amazement
I was Desire
I was Ecstasy and Rapture and the slightest bit of Greed. — Sharon Shinn

It was quite impossible, he found, to ask to be delivered from temptation when your heart's desire was to be tempted unto seventy times seven. — Thomas Hardy

I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms. — Lauren Groff

You can't throw your ego away, but you can use its innate desire to experience that which is beyond itself to give you the impetus to meditate. — Frederick Lenz

Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone. — Alister E. McGrath

Even if we are often led to desire through the sense of beauty can you say that the beautiful is what we desire? — James Joyce

I romanticised Mancunian despair, W says. I didn't realise that Mancunian despair is only the desire to leave Manchester — Lars Iyer

I want to need you. — Amanda Mosher

Prayer is the soul's sincere desire. Your desire is your prayer. It comes out of your deepest needs and it reveals the things you want in life. — Joseph Murphy

Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species. — C.S. Lewis

Congratulations! A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom." "You — Robert A. Heinlein

He who desires nothing but God is rich and happy. — Alphonsus Liguori

Your intelligence doesn't override your desire to destroy yourself. — John Darnielle

I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of any gods. — Friedrich Nietzsche

What is the use of fine feelings when pitted against the power of instinct? And what chance does modest restraint have against that of natural desire? — Guy De Maupassant

How? Well, if a girl has had enough of every man who exists, her only remaining desire could be for a man who doesn't exist at all ... — Italo Calvino

Lust, desire and passion. They can turn a wallflower into a sexual predator and a rational person into a raving lunatic. — Joanne Madeline Moore

Pure hearts will be Christlike. It is God's desire that we be conformed to the image of His Son. — Billy Graham

I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly. — Hanif Kureishi

She had made so many calculations, but none involved her legs melting from under her with the instant desire to screw. — Lauren Groff

The skeptic, being a lover of his kind, desires to cure by speech, as best he can, the self-conceit and rashness of the dogmatists. — Sextus Empiricus

When I was fresh out of law school, I had a burning desire to do something important, to have an impact in some way, but I didn't know what it was. — Jennifer Granholm

It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind. — Orison Swett Marden

I have a great desire to serve humanity without ever actually getting off my chair. — Cyrus Broacha

She would forever belong to them, a willing slave to their love and desire. — S.R. Roddy

Our levels of desire, patience, persistence, and confidence end up playing a much larger role in success than sheer reasoning powers. — Robert Greene

To be content with death may be better than to desire it. — Thomas Browne

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm is one of the most inveterate of human instincts. -The Decoration of Houses — Edith Wharton

I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness. — Alessandro Baricco

There is nothing like desire for obstructing any resemblance between what one says and what one has on one's mind. — Marcel Proust

Moderation is necessary even in our desire for knowledge so as not to know things badly. — Baltasar Gracian

I have no desire whatsoever to desecrate the grave of seminal Manchester pop group the Stone Roses. — John Squire

Wanting to repent is the sign God hasn't abandoned you. It is God, after all, who puts in us the desire to come to Him. — J.D. Greear

If only my heart could abstain
from love.

The more I seethe with desire
The more I seem to attract. — Hilda Ismail

Grace is not something outside or you.. In fact, your very desire for grace is due to grace that is already working in you. — Ramana Maharshi

He Who is your Lord, the All-Merciful cherisheth in His heart the desire of beholding the entire human race as one soul and one body. — Baha'u'llah

Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire. — Marguerite Duras

...joy we find when we realize God's deep desire to partner with everyday, normal people using their talents to do good. — Chris Marlow

The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice — Mortimer J. Adler

You start getting satisfied you stop getting better. — Sachin Kumar Puli

Follow your dream as long as you live, do not lessen the time of following desire, for wasting time is an abomination of the spirit. — Plato

If you desire the spirit of God you must keep the commandments of God. — Heber J. Grant

Love itself starts with the desire for something good. — Fulton J. Sheen

I desire to have a dialogue that's positive, and communicative and moves forward, and is about something real, not just consumption. — Mike Vallely

May your convictions be deep, your love real, and your desires earnest — Charles Spurgeon

By annihilating desires, you annihilate the mind. — Claude Adrien Helvetius

All I wanted was to share myself with him ... in a love way, lust way, every kind of way. — Jess C. Scott

If, like the prophet Noah, you have patience in the distress of the flood, Calamity turns aside, and the desire of a thousand years comes forth. — Hafez

Desire is one of the main drivers in creating your reality; utilise desire by focusing it upon the things you want to achieve in life. — Steven Redhead

The desire to write well can never be fulfilled without hard work. — Dean Koontz

To acknowledge the absurdly surreal is the clarity to embrace life as it is, not as we desire it- what you do with this information, hell if I know — Josh Stern

Lord, I desire to live as one Who bears a blood-bought name, As one who fears but grieving Thee, And knows no other shame. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I had a desire to do TV and wanted to get in, in the right way, knowing that I was going to learn a lot, along the way. — M. Night Shyamalan

This was done to you by men and women whose only desire was to enslave you; they have succeeded so well that you are proud of your slavery. — Orson Scott Card