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Gratitude causes us to no longer desire a different life. Instead, it causes us to make the most of the one life we already have.
— Josh Becker
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
The greatest poverty is not to live
In a physical world, to feel that one's desire
Is too difficult to tell from despair. — Wallace Stevens
In a physical world, to feel that one's desire
Is too difficult to tell from despair. — Wallace Stevens
Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
— A. B. Yehoshua
One must desire something to be alive
— Margaret Deland
The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.
— Confucius
One must count ones riches by the means one has to satisfy his desires.
— Antoine Francois Prevost D'Exiles
She and I will become one someday soon. So much so, that none will know where I begin and she ends. This I know ...
— A.R. Von
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
Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.
— Jeanette Winterson
The one who is worthy of worship by people has no desires. The one who is unworthy of worship has desires.
— Dada Bhagwan
One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
— Bertrand Russell
Love is the ability to make the invisible visible and the desire always to feel the invisible in one's midst.
— Orhan Pamuk
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
When is one considered to be in the awareness of 'one's own Self'? It is when all the desires become mild (when desires lessens).
— Dada Bhagwan
The desire to be a politician should bar you for life from ever becoming one."
"Don't vote. It just encourages them ... — Billy Connolly
"Don't vote. It just encourages them ... — Billy Connolly
All roads are long which lead to one's heart's desire.
— Joseph Conrad
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
Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying
that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire. — Friedrich Nietzsche
that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Her one desire, so long resisted, to make herself his, to call him her lord, her own - then,
— Thomas Hardy
I have only one desire, and that is the desire for solitude-to disappear into God, to be submerged in His peace, to be lost in the secret of His Face.
— Thomas Merton
In life, have but one desire, one only
to love Jesus Christ with all your soul. Let that be the one fixed idea of your entire existence. — Pedro Arrupe
to love Jesus Christ with all your soul. Let that be the one fixed idea of your entire existence. — Pedro Arrupe
I have never had the desire, need, nor the inclination to ever be the one to make the one I love cry."
~R. Alan Woods [2013] — R. Alan Woods
~R. Alan Woods [2013] — R. Alan Woods
The only way to know the truth is to witness him make choices under pressure to take one action or another in the pursuit of his desire.
— Robert McKee
A flirt is like a dipper attached to a hydrant; every one is at liberty to drink from it, but no one desires to carry it away.
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.
— Lois McMaster Bujold
Although prey to the dictates of physical desire, he remained no less a romantic man, believing that the realm of women could be shrunk to one woman.
— David Foenkinos
There are times when the one thing you haven't counts more than all the riches that may be yours.
— Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett
Compassion is born from the imagination. To have the desire to be compassionate, you have to imagine a world that's better than the one you live in.
— Ryan Henry Ward Artist
Look at me. Look at me is one of the fundamental desires of human heart.
— Bertrand Russell
Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamoured for it.
— Marcel Proust
The paradox of romantic love
that what one possesses, one can no longer desire
was at work. — Elizabeth Bowen
that what one possesses, one can no longer desire
was at work. — Elizabeth Bowen
As if one could do what one wanted with one's own body!
— Louis Aragon
Every swindle is driven by a desire for easy money; it's the one thing the swindler and the swindled have in common.
— Mitchell Zuckoff
Endeavors that help me satisfy you, my goddess of desire, pleasure, and corny one-liners.
— Sylvia Day
Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?
— Agatha Christie
God has a need one that only mankind can fulfil
— Sunday Adelaja
It isn't the meaning of love where you somehow desire that one or you want them or want them to love you.
— Robert Thurman
You can trust the promise of this opening;
Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning
That is at one with your life's desire. — John O'Donohue
Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning
That is at one with your life's desire. — John O'Donohue
Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.
— Albert Camus
Does not any limit imposed upon one inspire a desire to go beyond it? Does not our keenest suffering arise when our free will is crossed?
— Honore De Balzac
Desire disappears as you become more and more aware. When awareness is one hundred percent, there is no desire at all.
— Rajneesh
Reading that pleases and profits, that together delights and instructs, has all that one should desire.
— Jacques Amyot
The desire to sacrifice an entire lifetime to the noblest of ideals serves no purpose if one works alone.
— Che Guevara
The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.
— James Russell Lowell
I desire you in friendship, and I will one way or other make you amends.
— William Shakespeare
Escape from boredom is one of the really powerful desires of almost all human beings.
— Bertrand Russell
But when one masters this wretched desire, which is so hard to overcome, then one's sorrows just drop off, like a drop of water off a lotus.
— Gautama Buddha
When the heart stops for one beat it is desire, when it stops for one life time it is love
— Lucy Powell
The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires.
— Michelangelo
For love and desire are not always as one
— Cassandra Clare
To have no desire is such a load of bullshit--forgive me for being so blunt. To have no passion in one's life is a cop-out for cowards.
— Irina Kovalyova
There are perhaps only one or two things in the world which are not far more charming in desire than they are in possession.
— Anna Brackett
One of the reasons people don't achieve their dreams is that they desire to change their results without changing their thinking.
— John C. Maxwell
Time has one immortal desire: to carry on.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events.
— Bertrand Russell
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
Nothing's far when one wants to get there ...
— Marie Of Romania
Only one who liberates himself from his psychological desires and fears indeed in truth qualify as liberation hero.
— Velupillai Prabhakaran
It had ever, as I told the reader, been one of the singular blessings of my life, to be almost every hour of it miserably in love with some one ...
— Laurence Sterne
There's only one pure desire and that is to be one with the Divine.
— Nirmala Srivastava
Without desire, one is a walking cadaver.
— Karldon Okruta
At the foundation of every life is one central desire: to make a difference that you lived.
— Ron Smothermon
Happy is he who hath one desire, if that one desire be set on Christ, though it may not yet have been realized.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The desire to rule over others, the will to power, is one of the greatest crimes that man has committed.
— Rajneesh
If I read enough about one country I sometimes found that the intensity of the reading removed by desire to travel there.
— Paul Theroux
Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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
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
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
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
The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm is one of the most inveterate of human instincts. -The Decoration of Houses
— Edith Wharton
Passion is that strong and mostly uncontrollable feeling of love that one has towards what he want to do or does. It is dependent on emotions.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
— Jonathan Swift
But already my desire and my will were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed, by the Love which moves the sun and the other stars
— Dante Alighieri
Sissy dear. Your thumbs. HOLLYWOOD SPECTACULAR. LAS VEGAS. THE ROSE BOWL. Larger than any one man's desire.
— Tom Robbins
Beso me without desire so I may hear her coo, that grew in you
— Sean Thomas Dougherty
The real purpose of the martial arts must be to purge oneself of petty ambitions and desire, to obtain control of one's own character.
— Morihei Ueshiba
I had a dream that Zac Effron showed up at my door shirtless with a bouquet of flowers..yep, I'm still waiting on that one to come true.
— Starley Ard
The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire.
— Jacques Lacan
There is nothing like desire for obstructing any resemblance between what one says and what one has on one's mind.
— Marcel Proust
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
Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Don't go for knockout in one punch, if your desire is to stay longer in the fight and thrive; go for outlasting them. Take the higher road.
— Assegid Habtewold
As fast as I can tell there are only two emotions that keep the world spinning year after year ... One is fear. The other is desire.
— Deborah Harkness
Loving and being loved affirmed one's sense of self and conquered feelings of loneliness and alienation. It kept one sane.
— Daniel Klein
There is only one desire in life which is good and the desire for the means to realise it is also good.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I was besieged by a yearning, a craving, a burning desire. My heart had opened like one of those mysterious flowers that only bloom at night.
— Chloe Thurlow
One excuse, could destroy a multitude of chances.
— Anthony Liccione
He seems to read nothing but my books, and says his one desire is to 'follow in my footsteps'! But I have told him that they lead to terrible places.
— Oscar Wilde