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Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.
It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
The will is infinite and the execution confin'd, the desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit.
The readiness to praise others indicates a desire for excellence and perhaps an ability to realize it.
Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
Desire is the presentiment of our inner abilities, and the forerunner of our ultimate accomplishments.
I think you should be into whatever your kids care about, and fuel that desire. That's good parenting.
Make sure your desire to do what you're aspiring to do is deeper than just fame and being a celebrity.
The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.
By my makeup and temperament I wasn't really prey to physical desires. Everything happened in my head.
The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.
Nothing will be able to hinder us, if we desire and seek God alone, and take pleasure in nothing else.
There's no such thing as adventure. There's no such thing as romance. There's only trouble and desire.
After all, conflict arises, does it not, through the desire to be something, to be other than what is.
When we experience our own desire for transformation, we are feeling the universe evolving through us.
My house is a place I have spent many years improving to the point where I have no desire to leave it.
My desire was never to be famous. It was to try and create something interesting musically if I could.
There are some things that are as ancient as time, and knowing when a man desires you is one of those.
It is a rare woman who can overcome her desire to remain pretty and allow herself to become beautiful.
While I have no desire to see Mr. Obama's birth certificate, I do want to see his college transcripts.
All men desire their own perfect adjustment, but they desire it, being finite men, on their own terms.
To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
I have no desire to be dominated. Honestly I don't. And yet I find myself becoming angry when I'm not.
To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.
There is nothing man desires more than a heroic life: there is nothing less common to men than heroism.
Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.
A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts.
This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything.
It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
Reading that pleases and profits, that together delights and instructs, has all that one should desire.
What is desire?-- The impulse to make someone else complete? That woman would set sodden straw on fire.
The desire to see Okinawa returned to Japan developed into a broad national consensus among our people.
In history, psychedelic plants were used by priests and shamans with a desire to discover the interior.
May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire.
Desires are seeds waiting for their season to sprout. From a single seed of desire, whole forests grow.
Purity is innocence, the innocence of lack of self. Desire is innocent unless it's connected with self.
At its heart, legalism is a desire to appear holy. It is trying to be justified before men and not God.
The United States have no possessions in the east and do not desire to have any, as other countries do.
An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
Change doesn’t happen overnight. It starts with the desire, then one small step in the right direction.
I salute my desires with a bow. were it not for them to come and play mind would be empty just like me.
Yes, all my illusions will burn into illumination of joy, and all my desires ripen into fruits of love.
If you desire to help thy friend, do so in a way that will not bring thy friend's burdens upon thyself.
God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.
What I desire to point out is that I wish the law was not so, but that being the law, I must follow it.
If we desire peace, we must prepare for peace. The most important thing is to build a culture of peace.
The inert mind is a greater danger than the inert body, for it overlays and stifles the desire to live.
All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
All men desire to free themselves solely from death; they do not know how to free themselves from life.