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It is unjust to exact that men shall do out of deference to our advice what they have no desire to do for themselves.
Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery.
Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying; but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself.
We have lost contact with man's natural desire for the exalted, for a concern with our relation to absolute emotions.
I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible.
We should desire neither the immortality nor the death of any human being, whoever he may be, with whom we have to do.
There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety.
Obviously, raw talent is important, but the difference-maker between first and the rest of the pack is usually desire.
Nations, as well as individuals, must be virtuous and righteous if they desire to be stable, prosperous, and tranquil.
All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment.
If you have enough craft, you've done your homework and you're practiced. You can then make the photograph you desire.
My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.
Praying, is recognizing yourself to be that which you desire to be, rather than begging God for that which you desire.
From the desert I come to thee, On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire.
If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.
Perfection is a toxic desire. We are not supposed to be perfect. The challenge is not to be perfect, it's to be whole.
Most human beings, though in varying degrees, desire to control, not only their own lives but also the lives of others
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore.
I don't have many hobbies. If I think of hobbies, maybe ping pong. But I don't have a desire to get a ping pong medal.
Desire disappears as you become more and more aware. When awareness is one hundred percent, there is no desire at all.
There is false humility and genuine humility and between them, there is a desire of the practitioner to become humble.
I have no desire to go anywhere near drugs. People say, "Aren't you tempted?" No, because of the ridiculousness of it.
A decision is the focusing of the Energy of desire, and the decision point happens when the desire is powerful enough.
A problem only exists if there is a difference between what is actually happening and what you desire to be happening.
The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.
We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.
...for everything can come to those who have the desire,the drive, the dedication, and the determination." v.c.andrews
No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition
... I never will allow myself to form an ideal of any person I desire to see, for disappointment never fails to ensue.
I gave everything I had to basketball. The passion is still there, but the desire to play is not. It was a great ride.
My choice of learning pharmacy was driven by my interests, curiosity, and a desire to seek new medicines for patients.
Natural ability is important, but you can go far without it if you have the focus, drive, desire and positive attitude.
Hamas' battle is against the Zionist occupation in the Palestinian land. Hamas has no desire to change its battlefield.
I never had the desire to get in front of the camera. It never occurred to me! I always thought I'd be a theater actor.
I think if you don't have it [desire], you're not going to be pushed into anything. You've got to want to do something.
The entire history of human desire takes about seventy minutes to tell. Unfortunately, we don’t have that kind of time.
I am suspicious without a motive, and jealous without love; although I feel I ought to love since I desire to be loved.
There may come a day Which crowns Desire with gift, and Art with truth, And Love with bliss, and Life with wiser youth!
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself, but if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires.
What drives me? In every mission I'm on, the thing that drives me most is the desire to find my limits-and extend them.
I had a desire to do TV and wanted to get in, in the right way, knowing that I was going to learn a lot, along the way.
I've spent hundreds of hours working over words, and part of me, a large part of me, has a desire to do something else.
Most people wish for riches, but few people provide the definite plan and burning desire which pave the road to wealth.
Anger represents a certain power, when a great mind, prevented from executing its own generous desires, is moved by it.
The greatest assassin of life is haste, the desire to reach things before the right time which means overreaching them.
Reality... includes a perceiver, who has memories, thoughts, desires, emotions - [which] a normal camera tends to omit.
We all mythologize to some degree ourselves and probably embellish. I think some of that is the desire to tell stories.