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The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
When I go after something, I go after it hard. It has always been that way. I don't know. It's in my blood.
Life is for action, and if we desire to know anything, we must make up our minds to be ignorant about much.
Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.
let's get away from all the clever humans who put words in our mouth let's only say what our hearts desire.
Slip into the gap, have the desire, detach from the outcome, and let the universe take care of the details.
I'm ready to forgive him for the desire to be a king, but not for wanting to have 23 million court jesters.
After three days without one, the desire to read a newspaper vanished. And really, one was happier without.
The world is going on because not all can be free of desires. People with desires are born again and again.
I am not ashamed of anything - not my past, not my affairs, not my body, and most definitely not my desire.
People hesitate to follow their desires because they don't know how to divide their soul from their spirit.
Christians are simply pilgrims who acknowledge their lostness and their desire for help in finding the way.
Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.
The unique thing about my life is the extent to which it took me on a path-business-I had no desire to walk.
It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.
It is true not all has been accomplished that the earnest advocates would desire, but a start has been made.
Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.
I also don't have a desire to be on the A-list. I feel more people can relate to the D-list than the A-list.
We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.
Who God is and what Christ did have huge implications for who we are personally and what we desire sexually.
Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.
We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
Instead of seeking wisdom, liberals desire to be seen as clever by being counterintuitive, crazy, and outre.
Desire for increased wealth is not evil... it is simply the desire for more abundant life; it is aspiration.
Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.
There was a redemption of some kind, he believed, in such complete fulfillment of a desire so long deferred.
In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
The tiny, initial clue ... by allowing us to imagine what we do not know, stimulates a desire for knowledge.
I fundamentally believe that people have a genuine desire to be positively engaged in the world around them.
The retouching is excessive. I do not look like that and more importantly, I don't desire to look like that.
Our desire to share the gospel takes all of us to our knees, and it should, because we need the Lord's help.
[The seers call him wise] whose every attempt is free, without any desire for gain, without any selfishness.
If one were not animated with the desire to discover laws, they would escape the most enlightened attention.
There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.
I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.
There is no use if knowledge grows while desires multiply. It makes one a hero in words and a zero in action.
What motivates me has changed over time. My younger self was driven by the desire to be extremely successful.
It is my desire to show my attachment to the cause of Him who died for me by devoting my life to His service.
Many desire to kill me, and many wish to spend an hour chatting with me. The law protects me from the former.
Not less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past.
Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.
I’m the thing you most desire, you represent the thing I least desire, death. It’s just the opposite of love.
Well, I always had this desire to celebrate and somehow be a part of things that I thought were really great.
When our deepest desire is not the things of God, or a favor from God, but God Himself, we cross a threshold.
To every man who faces life with real desire to do his part in everything, I appeal for a study of the Bible.
People have to have a desire within themselves to know who they are and the reason why they are in this body.
All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.
It is only by frequent deaths of ourselves and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully.