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Is it possible to both want and not want something at the same time? For desire to ride with fear? — S.J. Watson

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

Only the search for truth is valid, the desire for wisdom the motive. The method is assimilation, not study. — Idries Shah

The desire for fame tempts even noble minds. — Saint Augustine

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth. — Irving Langmuir

But you have to allow a little for the desire to evangelize when you think you have good news. — Larry Wall

The hill, though high, I desire to ascend, The difficulty will not me offend;
For Iperceive — John Bunyan

The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

As long as there is greed (desire) for even a single situation, one will have to come back into the world and wandering will continue until then. — Dada Bhagwan

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. — Condoleezza Rice

Lay not on any soul a load that you would not wish to be laid upon you, and desire not for any one the things you would not desire for yourself. — Baha'u'llah

I hadn't even been looking, not for you, and now you were my heart's desire. — Daniel Handler

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

drive to win and the desire to make a profit are given by God to provide the incentive required for conquering exceptional challenges. — Ed Silvoso

Loneliness is the manifestation of the conflict between our desire for meaning and the absence of objective meaning from the universe. — Neel Burton

I have always believed that the desire for revenge is one of life's great motivators, and my success would be my revenge — Ann Patchett

Don't mistake a desperate desire to salve your conscience for bravery, — Catherine Jones Payne

Sometimes the best things for us aren't necessarily the things we want. — Sara Farizan

I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself. — Abraham Lincoln

What I wouldn't give for a little old smuggling job. — Katherine McIntyre

The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol. — Mignon McLaughlin

Pleasure once tasted satisfies less than the desire experienced for its torments. — Philibert Joseph Roux

When we have the means to pay for what we desire, what we get is not so much what is best, as what is costliest. — Christian Nestell Bovee

Strange, the desire for certain pleasures is a part of my pain. — Kahlil Gibran

Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events. — Bertrand Russell

Most people wish for riches, but few people provide the definite plan and burning desire which pave the road to wealth. — Napoleon Hill

The love of power is the demon of mankind. — Friedrich Nietzsche

At 2, I start preparing fish or chicken for dinner. I don't drive. I don't have hobbies. I have no desire to travel. — Lawrence Sanders

But Pete had the desire to play at the highest level for so many years. That is very difficult, mentally. — Richard Krajicek

Fall for me, as an apple falls, as rain falls, because you must. Use gravity to anchor your desire. — Jeanette Winterson

I long for the day I no longer long for him. — Franki Fiori

And Desire smiles, and forgets, for Desire is a creature of the moment. — Neil Gaiman

If the cycle of mating heat was anything like the desire clawing at him, he and Savannah were in for either a difficult time or a glorious one. — Christine Feehan

The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid for it. — John Pomfret

The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire. — Slavoj Zizek

Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means. — Aristotle.

It is in the contemplation of what you desire that you create what it is you want for yourself — Wayne Dyer

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

I made you, dear, and all I make is perfect. Please come close, for I desire you. — Teresa Of Avila

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. — Thomas Hobbes

Weapons are kept from women, but such a naming suggests that perhaps men fear our talents in war as well as our desire for peace. — Alice Hoffman

It is during our failures that we discover our true desire for success. — Kevin Ngo

Artistry exists in everyone. What makes it blossom is a soul's personal desire to find an outlet for expression. — Richelle E. Goodrich

If I understand this correctly Christ taught here the alarming doctrine that the desire for honor among men made belief impossible. — A.W. Tozer

I have no desire to enter politics. Because I am not suited for that. — N. R. Narayana Murthy

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

If we want great things to happen then we must create space in our lives for what we desire. — Hina Hashmi

Most People have a desire to look for the exception instead of the desire to become exceptional. — John C. Maxwell

It is vanity to desire a long life, and to have little care for a good life. — Thomas A Kempis

Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion. — Octavio Paz

When desire's sold for freedom/and need exchanged for fame/those choices made in ignorance/turn to bloodstained dreams of shame. — Kim Harrison

Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom. — Dalai Lama

In love, 'tis no other than frantic desire for that which flies from us. — Michel De Montaigne

The man who is really forgiven, is anxious not to offend again; the possession of justification leads to an anxious desire for sanctification. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

For in Western culture, music itself is always in danger of being regarded as the feminine Other that circumvents reason and arouses desire. — Susan McClary

My Nafs screams out for what it desires. But my will to be free screams louder. — Yasmin Mogahed

You can only seek God when you have already found God. The desire for God's unconditional love is the fruit of having been touched by that love. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

You can look for external sources of motivation and that can catalyze a change, but it won't sustain one. It has to be from an internal desire. — Jillian Michaels

When we pray for death we really desire a fuller life. — Austin O'Malley

It's the desire to study the human condition, the desire for collaboration, to learn and absorb, and to lead a well-examined life. — Nicole Kidman

The desire to fulfill the purpose for which we were created is a gift from God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Place Yourself On the Scale You Desire.Don't Expect Others To Do It For You. It's An Individual Thing Called SELF-ESTEEM. — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

This desire for solitude often overcomes her at house-cleaning times. — Dodie Smith I Capture The Castle

Wonder is the desire for knowledge. — Thomas Aquinas

It may seem difficult at first, but eating more high-nutrient foods reduces the desire for low-nutrient foods; it becomes easier with time. — Joel Fuhrman

If I had a prayer, it would be this: "God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen." — Byron Katie

Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Beauty and desire to possess have driven men mad for centuries. — Hannah Rothschild

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

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

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

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

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

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

For everything that God desires to do in the earth, He enters into partnership with those to whom He has already given dominion. — Myles Munroe

Our continual desire for praise ought to convince us of our mortality, if nothing else will. — Josh Billings

In fact, I'm doubting that love exists. Maybe, as a society, we made it up to explain and justify our unhealthy desire for co-dependence." He — Penny Reid

The king's "only interest in government was a pious but simpleminded desire for reproachment — Dan Jones

Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism. — Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa

I'm ready to forgive him for the desire to be a king, but not for wanting to have 23 million court jesters. — Minimaks

It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves. — William Gurnall

Desire nothing except desirelessness.
Hope for nothing except to rise above all hopes.
Want nothing and you will have everything. — Meher Baba

Unfortunately, the more chaotic the society, the greater is the desire for conservative, nonconfrontational art. — Kate Braverman

What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning. — Charlie Chaplin

It is unjust to exact that men shall do out of deference to our advice what they have no desire to do for themselves. — Luc De Clapiers

The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution in the soul. — Norman Mailer

What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

To the ego, loving and wanting are the same, whereas true love has no wanting in it, no desire to possess or for your partner to change. — Eckhart Tolle

When we experience our own desire for transformation, we are feeling the universe evolving through us. — Barbara Marx Hubbard

Your desire for perfection is the cause of anger. Leave room for imperfection. Perfection in action is almost impossible. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Do not yearn to be popular; be exquisite. Do not desire to be famous; be loved. Do not take pride in being expected; be palpable, unmistakable. — C. JoyBell C.

That what most people desire more than anything, more than money or fame or stuff, is someone to complain to for thirty minutes a day.* — Mimi Strong

Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires. — Friedrich Nietzsche

My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness. — Janine Turner

We all need to demand the happiness for ourselves we desire. Fight for it. Wrestle it out of the clenched fist of the world you live in — Jewel