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The opposite of heterosexual desire is the eroticising of sameness, a sameness of power, equality and mutuality. It is homosexual desire. — Sheila Jeffreys

When we have a vision of what we can become, our desire and our power to act increase enormously. — Dallin H. Oaks

Figure out the WHY you want it and turn it into a desire and then and obsession! — Darren D.O. Connell

Capitalists desire purchasing power. Socialists lust for the power to plan society. Which is worse? — A.E. Samaan

The desire for power feeds off itself, growing as it devours. — Ursula K. Le Guin

What is ambition but desire of greatness? And what is greatness but extent of power? — Thomas Higgons

Though it doesn't feel like it, crisis places us front and center of desire, which is the force of power. — S. Kelley Harrell

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power. — Baruch Spinoza

Thought is power, as is desire, but neither is enough unless it is backed by faith, specificity, and the desire to see to it that it becomes. — Stephen Richards

It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed. — Idries Shah

Power seeking to manifest causes desire within you. — Wallace D. Wattles

If you will assume your desire and live there as though it were true, no power on earth can stop it from becoming a fact. — Neville Goddard

When you feel the desire for power, you should stay in solitude for some time — Leo Tolstoy

The leaders use their power to crush people's natural desire to think for themselves. It's foot binding for the brain. — Haruki Murakami

But I have no desire for fame and power anymore. I crawled out of the swamp and I'm not crawling back in. — George W. Bush

There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Whatever you desire pursue it.
There is divine forces that attract the things to you. — Lailah Gifty Akita

... Desire baffles knowledge and power. — Jean-Francois Lyotard

If you align your vibrations and frequencies with those things you desire, you will acquire them. — Stephen Richards

Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo
from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at. — Alexander Smith

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

When you get your power to be "good" from your desire to please man, you will ultimately fail because you do not have the power to be perfect, — Hayley DiMarco

Where there is no power, there is never any desire to do a thing; and where there is strong desire to do a thing, the power to do it is strong. — Wallace D. Wattles

It's wonderful to feel desired. There's a sense of power in it, really. — Nancy Horan

Desire is what lends power to thought, it is that element that separates a wish or a day dream into reality, if properly directed. — Stephen Richards

It's like all technology: either not powerful enough or too powerful. It will never do exactly what you want it to do. — Charles Yu

When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve. — Napoleon Hill

And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice. — Rumi

Every person has the power to change their fate if they are brave enough to fight for what they desire more than anything. — Stephanie Garber

Create your own heaven on earth by utilising the power of your heart to bring your true desire into your reality. — Steven Redhead

Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power. — Thomas Hobbes

If we truly love people, we will desire for them far more than it is within our power to give them, and this leads us to prayer. — Richard J. Foster

Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment. — Robert Collier

Everything in the world of soul has a deep desire and longing for visible form; this is exactly where the power of the imagination lives. — John O'Donohue

If we have strong desire then God miraculously removes obstacles and gives us the power to overcome them. — Radhanath Swami

Get in touch with your inner most desire and aspirations, then utilise the power of your heart to create a life of bliss. — Steven Redhead

A man's not doing much until the cause he works for possesses all there is of him. Desire, when harnessed, is power. — John Wanamaker

To be with God is really to be involved in some enormous, overwhelming desire, and joy, and power which you cannot control, which controls you. — James A. Baldwin

You can never get rich, or start the creative power into action, by sending out unformed longings and vague desires. — Wallace D. Wattles

Success comes to us when we have a burning desire to achieve and we focus our full power on achieving that. — Sakshi Chetana

Wisdom warns against desire, but there is power in wanting, power that can fuel the will and keep lit that precious torch, hope. — Eugene Uttley

Our ability to receive is a necessary component if we desire to own our power, claim our worth and live fearlessly. — Rhonda Britten

Always be aware that you have the power to create the naturally stress-free and tranquil life you desire. — Wayne Dyer

When you allow desire, anger and frustration to dominate you, you are losing power. — Frederick Lenz

And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore. — Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Miracles can only inhabit the reality of our awareness when we surrender our need for the familiar to our desire for the limitless. — Eric Micha'el Leventhal

In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Desire for power is a kind of greed indulged by the unfulfilled — Michael Foley

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

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

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

The desire to rule over others, the will to power, is one of the greatest crimes that man has committed. — Rajneesh

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

Emotion fuels desire, desire is channeled into thought, and thought becomes power! — Jesse Lynn Rucilez

The power of making war often prevents it, and in our case would give efficacy to our desire of peace. — Thomas Jefferson

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

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

Those who desire power want to — Anne Rice

The desire to have power dissolves. The desire to dominate people for love dissolves. On the other hand, it's a relief to realize you can let go. — Allen Ginsberg

it is much the same, I daresay, wherever and whenever men desire power and the use of power on others. — Elizabeth Moon

There is a deep desire to change the power structure. — Robert Reich

My unlimited desire to create stuff surpasses the advancement in hardware power. — Hideo Kojima

The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power. — Charles William Eliot

Destroy desire completely for the present. For if you desire anything which is not in our power, you must be unfortunate — Epictetus

He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire. — Ovid

The greatest power over a man is his desire to please a particular woman. — Jeff Wheeler

Desire looks clear from the eyes of a lovely bride: power as strong as the founded world — Sophocles

Use the power of your conscious & subconscious mind to create a vibrational match for the abundance you desire and deserve. — Jack Canfield

Transform your desire into love, and limits start to lose their usefulness. — Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Understanding the eternal formula," Anna replied, "is the clue to win any game, and if you desire power you'll get it. — J.M.K. Walkow

The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires. — Michelangelo

This is my greatest desire, to move heavenly onward. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The desire to engineer humanity is a sign of a mind warped by megalomania and lust for power. — A.E. Samaan

Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit. — Bertrand Russell

Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives. — Ayn Rand

As doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient's ability and desire to survive. — Bernie Siegel

There is no alternative to doing good, if we desire for God to be good to us. — Sunday Adelaja