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There comes always a moment when the desire to act, however ill the cause, is stronger than the wish to listen.
We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves; fear, desire, hope, still push us on toward the future.
What indicates a person’s weak religion and fear of God, is that he seeks for an opinion that suits his desire.
To read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another
My greatest desire is that you would encounter His presence; and everything about your life would be different.
All you have to do is desire it, and if you desire it enough and understand why -- really know -- it will come.
Accept that living in the present moment, with your present desires, is the best, the highest thing you can do.
When you would grab that last hole you could literally feel all of the hope, desire and stress drop off of you.
A true leader will have no desire to lord it over God’s heritage. He is rather ready to follow as well as lead.
Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?
A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart.
Where there is no desire or pursuits, there is no wholeness. But there are satisfying lesser states, fragments.
The most evil creatures dont desire the destruction of everythingthey only desire to exploit it for themselves.
For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe?
When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling.
When we have the means to pay for what we desire, what we get is not so much what is best, as what is costliest.
To love someone means that you sometimes are fulfilled the most by putting thier deepest desires above your own.
Everyone seems possessed with the desire of writing articles upon me and sends me long lists of all I am to say.
Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground.
Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
The willingness to listen and act on your inspiration is imperative if you're going to live the life you desire.
You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God.
My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world.
You desire to be learned, wealthy, and great, without labor; it is one of the follies still extant in the world.
Oh to have you with me, to have you here, not to be alone, but to be with you, my beauty, you of all souls! You.
I think the desire to be funny was a mixture of wanting to be liked but also wanting to throw your elbows a bit.
Happiness is when there is no hunger or want at all, when we're completely free of all hunger, desire, and want.
Those who have a desire to teach while coming to learn should not pose as disciples; they must come as teachers.
If any of you have a desire to be mediocre, you will probably find that you have already achieved your ambition.
In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express.
Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.
The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.
Hollywood can be brutal, inhuman, the opposite of what the theatre is, and I had little desire to be part of it.
Just because you married doesn't mean you're not an individual person with your own wants and desires and needs.
I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.
The desire to force love to live only in its most positive form is what causes love ultimately to fall over dead.
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
I succeeded in using my charms like a weapon; I learned to play with other's hearts and to master my own desires.
I feel a great desire to abandon myself with greater trust to the Divine Mercy and to place my hope in God alone.
Their desire was silent yet magnificent, like a thousand daisies attuning their faces toward the path of the sun.
Abandon desire for this world, and God will love you. Abandon desire for others’ goods, and people will love you.
It is almost impossible to orchestrate the farewell you desire. That is something only a few people manage to do.
Prayer is naught but a rising desire of the heart into God by withdrawing of the heart from all earthly thoughts.
You're much too hung up on all of your ideas and your desires. You still have not penetrated the essence of yoga.
When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.
The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.
To wait on God is to live a life of desire toward Him, delight in Him, dependence on Him, and devotedness to Him.
American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.