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We should wish for few things with eagerness, if we perfectly knew the nature of that which was the object of our desire.
It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.
Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don't base your self-esteem on their opinions.
Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.
The greatest poverty is not to live In a physical world, to feel that one's desire Is too difficult to tell from despair.
The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.
There is nothing difficult, there is nothing complicated, only one has to have a desire to have a better quality of life.
Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree.
I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.
I'm going to keep loving football. That's one thing I'm most proud of: my hunger and desire for the game has not stopped.
We will know our forgiveness is complete when we have a genuine desire for the welfare of the people who have wronged us.
Greed, the desire to incorporate, is magnified and fed back to produce the pretan realms, just as hate creates the hells.
The U.S. will ignore the opinion of the Iraqi people and it will compose the new government according to its own desires.
If you will assume your desire and live there as though it were true, no power on earth can stop it from becoming a fact.
All your desires, whatever they may be, are expressions of your longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself well.
In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don't want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.
The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.
Do I pray that the Lord gives me the desire to do his will, or do I look for compromises because I'm afraid of God's will?
I so hate it when I'm quoted to thwart the juices and desires of the great interior design public at large - Daily Express
It seems to me that there are certain thoughts and vignettes and attitudes that I have always had the desire to represent.
You can develop a burning desire to succeed. How? Keep your mind on the things you want and off the things you don't want.
Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it.
Reducing our desires and eliminating false neediness is the answer to resolving the nagging inner discomfort that we feel.
After I left the podium in Atlanta, I felt so fulfilled in my career that I lost my desire to compete at that level again.
America was born out of a desire for self-determination, a longing for the human dignity that only independence can bring.
I do have a strong desire to make films that will take the audience to some uncharted places both tonally and emotionally.
I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.
I have nothing against Bosniaks/Islam, but it is the desire to direct political processes that is completely unacceptable.
I never had any desire to be a film actor. I never thought I was the good-looking movie type, which I assumed they wanted.
Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
Every desire of yours that comes true brings you a little closer to seeing that what you wanted exists nowhere but in you.
And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
Prayer isn't where we change God, but He changes us. Instead of praying for OUR desires, let's pray He burden us with HIS.
Anyone in pursuit of art is responding to a desire to make visible that which is not, to offer the unknown self to others.
To get to a place where you could love anything you chose--not to need permission for desire--well now _that_ was freedom.
I dare not say with Paul that I am the slave of Christ, but my highest aspiration and desire is to be the slave of Christ.
Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
As you can see, even when [Adolf] Hitler desires to speak for peace, he cannot dispense with threats. This is symptomatic.
The sage desires no desire, does not value rare treasures, learns without learning, recovers what people have left behind.
Because monks come from the midst of purity, they consider as good and pure what does not arouse desire among other people.
Desire can't be sated, because if it is, the longing disappears and then we've failed, because desire is the state we seek.
Men desire to have some share in the management of public affairs chiefly on account of the importance which it gives them.
The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.
Desire may be compared to a minute seed. It is like a big banyan tree growing out of a seed, which is no bigger than a dot.
Grace is not something outside or you.. In fact, your very desire for grace is due to grace that is already working in you.
I think my desire to imagine a future for this site came out of trying to come to terms with the emotions that day aroused.
Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment we’re born?
I have a great need to learn what the norm is by dealing with what is not the norm... with the grotesque and the fantastic.