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The sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
The difference between a builder and an architect is that an architect also cares about desire, about dreams.
Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
The intensity of our desire to share the gospel is a great indicator of the extent of our personal conversion.
Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.
Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression.
You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?
Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly.
I always thought the appeal for vampires are the same as religion, the desire to avoid death and live forever.
From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.
Desire's wind blasts the thorntree but after it becomes from a bramblebush to be a rose upon the rood of time.
I never had a desire to leave mainstream Hollywood. And still don't think that I've left mainstream Hollywood.
To achieve our eternal destiny, we will desire and work for the qualities required to become an eternal being.
I am fully and intensely aware that plants are conscious of love and respond to it as they do to nothing else.
We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.
Animal personalities have always intrigued me, the desire to find out more about them made a reader out of me.
A passion for his art, and an eager desire to excel, will more than supply an artist with the place of method.
We should desire very few things passionately if we did but perfectly know the nature of the things we desire.
I don't think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid.
A voluntary simplification of life-styles is not beyond our abilities, but it is probably outside our desires.
The creator does not create only for the pleasure of creating but . . . he also desires to subdue other minds.
Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.
All of the great geniuses of the world were inspired and driven by their desire to enrich the lives of others.
Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.
I have triumphed over both life and death because I no longer desire to live, nor do I any longer fear to die.
There is no inborn longing that shall not be fulfilled. I think that is as certain as the forgiveness of sins.
When our desires are fulfilled, we never fail to realize the wealth of imagination and the paucity of reality.
Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.
I have no desire to maintain a lifestyle. I am a horrible celebrity. If I am out in public I dress like a pig.
I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire.
You are probably at your sanest when you come to the place where you abandon all else but your desire for God.
My desire is that my Lord would give me broader and deeper thoughts, to feed myself with wondering at His love.
There is something I have noticed about desire, that it opens the eyes and strikes them blind at the same time.
Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true; everything that is not puts us in a rage.
Desire is making people build ships and cities, has made men conquer nations... and it can defeat that nicotine
That love of the practice of ending suffering will probably be all of the awakening that you would ever desire.
There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.
The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.
If I had a prayer, it would be this: "God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen."
I think everyone has the desire in their life to be the best at something that touches them, that reaches them.
It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.
The Lord filled me with desire, and made me feel that I must be as much with Him alone as with souls in public.
It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
The traits of our sexual culture are still speechlessness, loneliness, violence and not enough desire and love.
My body seems a mere encumbrance to me; an imbecillic wagon, hitched to the horse of desire, which is the soul.
Animals have been reduced to objects for production, and their lives are designed around our needs and desires.
It is my great desire to reform my subjects, and yet I am ashamed to confess that I am unable to reform myself.
You're meant to have whatever your heart desires. Whatever your heart wants that much is already a part of you.