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Every human being was a victim of something, whether it was desire, addiction, ignorance, or faith. — Lee Thomas

The word that seems best to summarize the desire of the human heart is 'communion.' ... wherever we look it is communion that we seek. — Henri Nouwen

Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire. — Bertrand Russell

I don't have any special talents, just an ordinary desire to live like a human being. — Mikhail Bulgakov

The desire for connection with the Divine and our formless inner self is at the foundation of all desire for human connection. — Donna Goddard

The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

His first step is to make temptation appear as a natural desire. It is something unequivocally physical and human. — Ravi Zacharias

Human beings are primarily defined by what we desire, not what we know. — David Brooks

...the greatest gift one human can give to another is heartfelt time, where true togetherness is born from desire versus duty. — Tony Dincau

The entire history of human desire takes about seventy minutes to tell. Unfortunately, we don't have that kind of time. — Richard Siken

Love for me is the most sophisticated form that one can give for his desire, may be the only faith is remarkable on human being. — Luiz Bolognesi

The human heart is a dark forest — Tobias Wolff

Angst is not the human condition, it's the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can't get. — Miguel Syjuco

All the arts serving human desires and needs are derived from the breath that Godsent into the human body. — Hildegard Of Bingen

Through the intensive aspiration of the human soul arises in man the desire for independence. — Velupillai Prabhakaran

It's human to want what we need, and it's human to desire what we don't need but find desirable. — Fernando Pessoa

Take a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long time Identify that desire and use modern technology to take out steps. — Evan Williams

In that atrocious second I understood that desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual idea of hell and its horror. — Octave Mirbeau

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire. — Dan Brown

Leaders are the human catalyst that overcomes our desire for the status quo. — Scott Hammerle

Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature. — Hjalmar Branting

The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing - desire. — Willa Cather

And this grey spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge, like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. — Richard Flanagan

Human longings are perversely obstinate; and to the man whose mouth is watering for a peach, it is of no use to offer the largest vegetable marrow. — George Eliot

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

The flawed human error is expecting someone else to build the world we desire, rather than creating it for ourselves. — Shawn Stern

I think that this place can strip a person of human traits. It can make one desire nothing and hope for even less. — Gemma Liviero

Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror. — Octave Mirbeau

A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom. — Robert A. Heinlein

The human desire for food and sex is relatively equal. If there are armed rapes, why should there not be armed hot dog thefts? — John Kennedy Toole

even admirable human desires for love, for belonging, and for meaning can be manipulated by unscrupulous individuals to benefit themselves — Noah Berlatsky

Human desire tends to be insatiable. — Alan W. Watts

America was born out of a desire for self-determination, a longing for the human dignity that only independence can bring. — Maurice Saatchi

Human nature is universally imbued with a desire for liberty, and a hatred for servitude. — Julius Ceasar

Human nature is seldom at a loss to find or create an excuse for pursuing the predominant bias of inclination. — Helen Craik

One common desire that every human being has is to love and be loved. At the end of our lives, it's how we measure our lives. — Denise Di Novi

I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity. — Charles Edison

The most futile cry of man is his impossible wish to be understood — Arun Joshi

Most human beings, though in varying degrees, desire to control, not only their own lives but also the lives of others — Bertrand Russell

We should desire neither the immortality nor the death of any human being, whoever he may be, with whom we have to do. — Simone Weil

The great chefs understand human desire. They can balance nurturing with the desire to dazzle or seduce or impress. — David Blum

The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important. — John Dewey

Craftsmanship names an enduring, basic human impulse, the desire to do a job well for its own sake. — Richard Sennett

The desire to reach for the sky runs very deep in the human psyche. — Cesar Pelli

Paroxysms of pain and twinges of desire leach from universal sources. All human suffering buttons itself to the pang of wanting. — Kilroy J. Oldster

All of us, as human beings, seek to be respected. Even those who do not respect others have a deep seated desire to be respected. — Abhishek Ratna

All human activity is prompted by desire. — Bertrand Russell

The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation. — William James

Duke, almost the only human characteristic Mike seems to possess is an overwhelming desire to be liked. — Robert A. Heinlein

The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated. — William James

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. — Plato

God plants no yearning in the human soul that he does not intend to satisfy. — Henry Ward Beecher

The human body is the best work of art. — Jess C. Scott

Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by what he can desire. — Samuel Johnson

It preyed on human desire and it paid off by sheer terror. — John Grisham

In the end, the innate desire of all people for truth, justice, and human understanding must triumph over ignorance and despair. — Dalai Lama XIV

When the human being says:
'It is not true ... '
He may mean:
'I don't know about it, so I think it is untrue.'
Or:
'I don't like it. — Idries Shah

This book is dedicated to all the women - and men - who know that the human desire for romance, love, and sexual passion has nothing to do with age. — Pamela Clare

Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature. — Anna Sui

Human psychology has a near universal tendency to let belief be coloured by desire. — Richard Dawkins

We grow like flowers, and bear desire, The odor of the human flowers. — Richard H. Stoddard

What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be human. — Clarice Lispector

The desire for liberation arises in human beings at the end of many births, through the ripening of their past virtuous conduct. — Anonymous

A Woman who let out a Sigh Outside a Mansion, should Never ask her Husband Why He Works Late — Vineet Raj Kapoor

But the meaning of life is not ... explained by one's business life, nor is the deep desire of the human heart answered by a bank account. — Carl Jung

Fictionally speaking, desire is the sugar in human food. — David Foster Wallace

They were without shame and without desire, like the angels. But it is not human to be without shame and without desire. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Geometry alone is not enough to portray human desires, expressions, aspirations, joys. We need more. — Akira Yoshizawa

Within the nature of every person is a desire to feel appreciated, to feel needed, and to be loved. — Ellen J. Barrier

Commas' nourishes your desires and full-stop kills. — Chandan Sharma

We should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to every human being for God's sake. — Francis Of Assisi

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

The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged. — Stephen Covey

I wonder how often not the intention but the desire springs up in a doctor's mind: 'Can I let this human being out of the trap of Life? — Phyllis Bottome

desire is the sugar in human food. — David Foster Wallace

Delayed gratification helps to limit the animalistic desire of human flesh. — Sunday Adelaja

Sensuality reconciles us with the human race. The misanthropy of the old is due in large part to the fading of the magic glow of desire. — Eric Hoffer

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

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

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

Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know. — Moliere

This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness. — Michael Pollan

The height of human desire is what wins, whether it's on Normandy Beach or in Ohio Stadium. — Woody Hayes

It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite. — Soren Kierkegaard

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs. — Mark Twain

One of the most priceless parts of our human life is the area called desire. It is a God-given gift that separates us from all the rest of creation. — Bill Johnson

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

Philanderers and swingers can see nothing beyond the needs of their genitals. Sexual craving is a part of our biology, but it is not who we are. — Abhijit Naskar

No human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night all. — Jose Saramago

The human desire to know why is as powerful as the desire to know what happened next, and it is a desire of a higher order. — Janet Burroway

He who desires to see the living God face-to-face should not seek him in the empty, firmament of his mind, but in human love. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Everyone should want to excel in life. You should never take the desire to excel away from the human race. — Henry Iba

No marketplace, free or otherwise, is good when it fails to consider the basic human state of needs at every stage of life. — Bryant McGill

Look at me. Look at me is one of the fundamental desires of human heart. — Bertrand Russell

The cuties I desire, I be the first to set it on off, flame on like the Human Torch. — Method Man

Escape from boredom is one of the really powerful desires of almost all human beings. — Bertrand Russell

Tricked by desire, mastered by love, rescued by beloved!
What else you want to know about humans? — Saurabh Sharma

Human happiness stems from faith in God, from human association, and from a desire to live and let live. — Ed Webster

Desire should be allowed to roam freely. The range is endless . — Sameh Elsayed

I'm a normal human being. I don't have any desire to change my body as a result of having had two kids. That's a good thing, isn't it? — Kate Winslet