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Some proofs command assent. Others woo and charm the intellect. They evoke delight and an overpowering desire to say, 'Amen, Amen'.
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
I think I have a very American desire and willingness to divulge everything. I would divulge more if I didn't know it wasn't smart.
The True Person benefits yet expects no reward, does the work and moves on. There is no desire to be considered better than others.
Dream, but expect nothing. Desire, but expect nothing. Hope, but expect nothing. Release your need to control and gain real control.
The key to good listening isn't technique, it's desire. Until we truly want to understand the other person, we'll never listen well.
You make choices, as a young man. I knew I wanted to be an actor, so I pursued that, but the desire to compete still stayed with me.
There is nothing that I'd love to do more than negotiate with Palestinians. This is my desire. This is my dream. This is my mission.
From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.
The stronger and more intense my desire becomes to capture and record that which is unsayable, the more tightly my mouth stays shut.
I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms.
I have such a desire to sleep and am so much behind my sleep. A good night, one good night and all this nonsense will be swept away.
The desire for transcendence is intimately connected with the desire for creativity. It is just as essential to who and what we are.
Though some will try to deny it, I believe that every woman, at some time in her life, has had or will have the desire to pose nude.
For myself I make no secret, I look forward with eager desire to seeing the matchless beauty of Christ's body in the heavenly light.
The nature of the leadership spirit is the inherent desire of all mankind to control and regulate both environment and circumstance.
I believe that you cannot go any further than you can think. I certainly believe if you don't desire a thing, you will never get it.
When we exaggerate our friends' tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own virtue.
Horizontality is a desire to give up, to sleep. Verticality is an attempt to escape. Hanging and floating are states of ambivalence.
I desire to have a dialogue that's positive, and communicative and moves forward, and is about something real, not just consumption.
God often does His best work in us when He catches us by surprise and introduces a change that is completely against our own desire.
It is not the fear of death which creates the desire for immortality, but the desire for immortality which causes the fear of death.
A real desire to believe all the good you can of others and to make others as comfortable as you can will solve most of the problems.
Poor people are as much in danger from an inordinate desire towards the wealth of the world as rich from an inordinate delight in it.
All achievement, no matter what may be its nature, or its purpose, must begin with an intense, burning desire for something definite.
He Who is your Lord, the All-Merciful cherisheth in His heart the desire of beholding the entire human race as one soul and one body.
Only listen to the observations of the enlightened because everyone else is self-centered, egocentric and bound by the net of desire.
An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system.
Mathematics is good for the soul, getting things right enlivens a sense of truth, efforts to understand automatically purify desires.
You already know I desire that neither Father or Mother shall be in want of any comfort either in health or sickness while they live.
Let your diet be spare, your wants moderate, your needs few. So, living modestly, with no distracting desires, you will find content.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.
In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film.
We must have a warrant for our prayers. If we have some great desire, we must search the scriptures to find if it be right to ask it.
Seek and Hide: the Lover gazes at the Beloved. The Beloved looks away. The Beloved turns and looks at the Lover. The Lover runs away.
So whatever it is you want, need or desire or just like to have, you better try to get it now, 'cause this is the only time there is.
I did not come to PSG to have a good time, but to work with humility, desire and above all to win titles because that's what we love.
A person who is emotionally free has no desire to convince, cajole, insist, beg, seduce, manipulate or control. He/she is free to love
If I truly believe in Him, I'll trust Him to desire for me that which is for my highest good, and to have planned for its fulfillment.
Reciting part of a sutra with the desire to benefit others is like reciting a recipe in the hope it will prevent people from starving.
Never relax, for you will not attain to the possession of true spiritual delights if first you do not learn to deny your every desire.
A person creating a space in his life for something that he doesn’t deserve at all gets readily someone whom he doesn’t desire in all.
I hate the word proper. If you tell me a thing is not proper, I immediately feel the most rabid desire to go 'neck and heels' into it.
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
Can we ever break free of the devices and desires of our own hearts? Might not our conscience be telling us what we most want to hear?
As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life.
Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
Obligation is a flimsy base for creativity, way down the list behind passion, courage, instinct, and the desire to do something great.