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It's not desiring the fall; it's terror of the flames. — David Foster Wallace

You can't love by desiring
an extremely vague desire
of a very vague moon. — Leonard Woolf

The secret to happiness is to admire without desiring. — Carl Sandburg

This is what sexism does best: it makes you feel crazy for desiring parity and hopeless about ever achieving it. — Deborah Copaken Kogan

The air is full of souls those who are nearest to earth descending to be tied to mortal bodies return to other bodies, desiring to live in them. — Philo

All desiring is desiring for the futile. It leads only into frustration. — Rajneesh

You must be a poet,
a lady of evil luck
desiring to be what you are not,
longing to be
what you can only visit. — Anne Sexton

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it. — George Bernard Shaw

Almost all men are infected with the disease of desiring to obtain useless knowledge, — Tony Reinke

Enlightenment, awakening or liberation can never be attained by seeking or desiring. It is realized only through experience. — Gian Kumar

Whereas by desiring someone who would not desire her, she could allow this fire to burn and feel: how alive I am! I am capable of desire. — Anais Nin

Most of the time reason for unhappiness is, desiring for the things which are far from our expectations. — Sriveena Dhagavkar

Believing that you cannot have something is the same thing as not desiring to have it, for it produces the same result. — Neale Donald Walsch

Most of the times, reason for unhappiness is desiring for the things which are far from fulfilling our expectations. — Sriveena Dhagavkar

To her all things are poignantly lacking - but she is incapable of desiring anything. — Beryl Markham

The Secret of Happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness. — F.H. Bradley

Good character consists of knowing the good, desiring the good, and doing the good habits of the mind, habits of the heart, and habits of action. — Thomas Lickona

Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night. — Victor Hugo

I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior satisfaction in God. — John Piper

Practice not wanting, desiring, judging, doing, fighting, knowing. Practice just being. Everything will fall into place. — James Frey

the way we can know if we've betrayed ourselves is by whether we are still desiring to be helpful. — The Arbinger Institute

What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring. — C.S. Lewis

All that I desire in life are three ...
A wilderness: A beach on the sun-drenched sea,
A puff of opium,
And thee. — Roman Payne

Still desiring, we live without hope. — Dante Alighieri

Persons desiring to know what love is might benefit more if they were able to understand what love is not. — Floyd Henderson

Surrendering means non-desiring. — Rajneesh

Consumers desiring a better world have already achieved some successes in this regard, helping to transform several industries from the ground up. — Simon Mainwaring

As if intoxicated, I then enjoyed her presence in the things I saw, and, desiring her in them, with the sight of them I was sated. — Umberto Eco

The hardest memory of slavery that Rialla had to bear was not the lack of freedom; it was the lack of desiring freedom. — Patricia Briggs

Desiring a will was not enough. I would have needed precisely what I could not have without willpower: a will. — Marcel Proust

All things of this phenomenal world are mere illusion. They are worth neither discussing nor desiring. — Yoshida Kenko

Do you want me? I am yours. — Mark Andrew Poe

It is by desiring to grow in love that we receive the Holy Spirit, and the thirst for more charity is the effect of this more abundant reception. — Thomas Merton

Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring. — Ezra Pound

Leaders don't fall in love with mediocrity. The status quo isn't their desire to maintain but to improve. — Israelmore Ayivor

People are disposed to mistake predicting troubles for causing troubles and even for desiring troubles. — Enoch Powell

Love is giving without desiring, it's giving without requiring, but know that it will be returned. Maybe not as expected, but as needed — Gerald Mills

Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own — Emanuel Swedenborg

There is a creative spirit in you desiring to be free, and you may as well get out of its way for it will give you no peace until you do. — Mary Caroline Richards

Man is busy desiring to find something which only he can do so that his ego acquires importance. — Rajneesh

Peace consists, very largely, in the fact of desiring it with all one's soul. — Oscar Arias

Warriors of light are not perfect.Their beauty lies in accepting this fact and still desiring to grow and to learn. — Paulo Coelho

Desire means the way to go out; desire is the path that leads you out. If your mind is still desiring, you cannot move within. — Rajneesh

I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes. — William H Gass

Desiring things widely different for their various tastes. — Horace

When we pour out our miseries, He hears a melody of us needing and desiring what only He can give. — Stacey Thacker

Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Enjoy what you have rather than desiring what you don't have — Craig Groeschel

Funny, that. For so long Wormwood had desired the throne and then, when he'd had it, it hadn't been worth desiring after all. — John Connolly

I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them. — Eleanora Duse

Women are sensitive to it, to the weight of the desiring gaze. — J.M. Coetzee

Medical men have searched the world for remedies, desiring an antidote. Chiropractors find the cause in the person ailing. — B. J. Palmer

Most souls labor under a self imposed curse of desiring but never truly giving themselves over to love. — Michael Xavier

So many of our young women today, they're growing up without a father, but they're still thirsty for that and desiring positive male love. — Hill Harper

Desiring the unattainable; that's all this is about, — Kamila Shamsie

When it comes to desiring, we are all experts. If there were an Olympics of desiring, we would all make the team. — William Braxton Irvine

Desiring is a part of dreaming. — Beth Nimmo

Desiring truth, awaiting it, laboriously distilling a few words, forever desiring
— Virginia Woolf

Stop fussing over me, woman. I will be whole again shortly, and then you can resume ogling me and desiring my body. — Katie MacAlister

We must not simply desire God; we must live in total dependence. — Dillon Burroughs

A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it. — George Eliot

I would far prefer to be in someone's arms than just in their head. — D.S. Mixell

Desiring the exhilarations of changes:
The motive for metaphor, shrinking from
The weight of primary noon ... — Wallace Stevens

I don't recall ever desiring to go as fast as possible. — Hannah Kearney

Is not falling down. Failure Is desiring to live Where I have fallen. — Sri Chinmoy

God's love looks for those who feel unlovely, desiring to make them beautiful again. — Natalie Grant

All plot comes from the character's trying to get something, to achieve something, wanting, desiring, longing. — Robert Olen Butler

I like myself as I am, more desiring than desirable. — Virginie Despentes

If you are not realizing your desires, you are not desiring in faith with all your heart. — Grant Von Harrison

Essential to life, is desiring the things that you need, than needing the things you desire. — Anthony Liccione

Before strongly desiring anything, we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Desiring money kills desire. Money kills desire. — Andre Chamson

Look at your children in faith, and see how many people will be ministered to by your ministering to them. — Desiring God

Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook. — John Ruskin

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. — Epicurus

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich. — Democritus

There are two ways to be rich: One is by acquiring much, and the other is by desiring little. — Jackie French Koller

She mistrusted the periods of quiet that are essential to true growth. Desiring — E. M. Forster