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The worst reason to do magic is the desire to display your superiority to your fellow humans.
Truth is always truth, untruth is always untruth. This is what matters, this is right desire.
I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.
When you desire to be most alive to God, you will generally find sin most alive to repel you.
'A reality shaped around your own desires' - there is something sociopathic in that ambition.
...if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.
You are safe with me." "I am not at all safe, with you. But I have no desire to be elsewhere.
Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.
I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.
The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire.
I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.
The desire to impress is an efficient means of bringing out one’s least impressive qualities.
I have no desire to vote for French politicians, and I'm not entitled to vote in Switzerland.
Those who desire only techniques will never understand this art. It is everything beyond that
Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
But you have to allow a little for the desire to evangelize when you think you have good news.
Verily, there is nothing, right or wrong, which belief, plus burning desire, cannot make real.
Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat.
We all have that desire for something special, something committed. We all want to be The One.
Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.
Coeur qui soupire n'a pas ce qu'il desire. The heart that sighs does not have what it desires.
They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.
It is in the contemplation of what you desire that you create what it is you want for yourself
It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will...in a dull man.
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
He who is drawn to something desirable does not desire to have it as a thought but as a thing.
Women can be powerful, graceful, and complex, with the ability to make any choice they desire.
The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.
There’s only one thing worse than not satisfying a desire. And that is not to feel any desire.
Of course, not all desires lead to happiness. Desires can and do lead to pain and frustration.
No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils.
Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals.
To succeed takes more than the desire to win. It also takes the acceptance that we could fail.
We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire.
Most women have small waists the world throughout, But their desires are thousand miles about.
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
When his lips return to mine, it's not just about lust or desire - it's about making us whole.
God's highest desire is not to make us rich, successful or popular. His goal is to make us His
True peacefulness comes from abandoning the illustion that satisfying desires brings pleasure.
Look to see what you most desire in your life, then ride that feeling all the way to creation.
Paradise is surrounded by what we dislike; the fires of hell are surrounded by what we desire.
The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.
I began to feel the desire for something more; I wanted to do something to make things better.
Christ bounds and terminates the vast desires of the soul; He is the very Sabbath of the soul.
When you have this desire to win, to win, to win, I would not feel comfortable losing a title.
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
When you stop needing more of everything, more of what you desire seems to arrive in your life.
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
Who doth desire that chaste his wife should be, first be he true, for truth doth truth deserve.