I've protected my protracted period of infancy. For many years. And I have no desire to become an adult.

Plot is merely the mechanism by which your character is forced up against her deepest fears and desires.

A love of reading shows empathy, the desire to understand how others live or act or might act - and why.

I always had that desire of being strong and being able to protect myself, being able to protect others.

If you desire to become a more generous person, don't wait for your income to change. Change your heart.

The will to prepare, the guts to risk, and the desire to be the best. These are trademarks of champions.

When you attack the roots of sin, fix your thought more on the God you desire than on the sin you abhor.

Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy? Why a little curtain of flesh on the bed of our desire?

Whatever it is that you do, if you have that passion and desire for it, that's the most important thing.

I don't want to discount talent and ability, but I still maintain that a lot of it is just sheer desire.

They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart.

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

Fantasies were safe. It was a break from reality. A chance to act on desires for a short period of time.

Every time you have a desire come true, some part of you realizes it did not have to live in limitation.

Desire is endless and unappeasable, is most intense where most forbidden, and is never far from despair.

No tricks, gimmicks, special pills, special potions, special equipment. All it takes is desire and will.

Our Being is Becoming, not stasis. Our Science is Utopia, our Reality is Eros, our Desire is Revolution.

Sometimes I feel that old desire. Then my body tells me it is 50 years old. I take the easy way instead.

Life is made for the strong. There is no mercy in it for the weak– none...Such is the tragedy of desire.

Offer a vibration that matches your desire rather than offering a vibration that keeps matching what-is.

It begins with absence and desire. It begins with blood and fear. It begins with a discovery of witches.

I have no desire to make money off musicians. I just want to promote them because I want to share music.

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

The desire for hope and change is easily understandable. In many ways it's even more dramatic in Europe.

The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.

If our deepest desires cannot be satisfied in this world, then we must have been made for another world.

I don't have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don't have a master plan in that way.

The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.

Sit Rest Work. Alone with yourself, Never weary. On the edge of the forest Live joyfully, Without desire.

The desire to sacrifice an entire lifetime to the noblest of ideals serves no purpose if one works alone.

To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortune, and not your fortune by your desires.

But you've got to be tough when consumed by desire, cause it's not enough just to stand outside the fire.

Europe sees itself as a liberal-minded society. It has no desire to be, nor can it be, a "Christian club.

My searing desire to atone for having survived helps me resist the temptations to join the world of lies.

My ambition is limited to the desire to capture something transient, and yet, this ambition is excessive.

The things we do without the fear of failure and the desire for success are the purest acts we'll ever do

When wisdom reaches the acme of perfection, it will suppress the vicious instincts and injurious desires.

Thoughts are to the Desires as Scouts and Spies, to range abroad, and find the way to the things Desired.

The kiss is a wordless articulation of desire whose object lies in the future, and somewhat to the south.

Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing.

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

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.

The world is no more than the Beloved's face. And the desire of the One to know its own beauty, we exist.

He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something.

Whoever desires this world must seek its knowledge, and whoever desires the next must seek its knowledge.

Remember how the first world war broke out. It broke out as a result of the desire to redivide the world.

Having your competitiveness and your desire as an athlete called into question is, for sure, frustrating.

Happiness does not lie in getting people and things outside of you lined up exactly to suit your desires.

The body whips the soul. In its great desire it demands the elixir In the roar of spring, transmutations.

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

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