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To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.
The discipline in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.
A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.
A possession considered of little value up to now suddenly becomes precious to a person if another person desires it, don't you think?
I suspect that much of our praying to be used is selfish, and underneath it is the sneaking desire to make our mark and be recognized.
I can say now is that sneaking up on people is a major delight in my old age, but it always has been. A desire, even a need, to shock.
The best partnerships aren't dependent on a mere common goal but on a shared path of equality, desire, and no small amount of passion.
Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.
I'm a normal human being. I don't have any desire to change my body as a result of having had two kids. That's a good thing, isn't it?
No. The answer was no, I was not all right. I nearly got knocked out. Knocked out by desire! Desire for forbidden dissimilar molecules
Faith is an invisible and invincible magnet, and attracts to itself whatever it fervently desires and calmly and persistently expects.
I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have lead them through such sorrow to their fate?
I always had the desire to entertain people, whether it was to make 'em laugh or to scare 'em or stir things up just to cause problems.
But already my desire and my will were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed, by the Love which moves the sun and the other stars
The desire for self-improvement is vital. There is no point in pushing children; they need to be the ones who want to learn new skills.
There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions.
There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit.
Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.
I got over the loss of his desk and chair, but never the desire to produce a string of words more precious than the emeralds of Cortés.
Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.
I don't spend too much time attempting to defend myself against people who seem to have zero desire to have a substantive conversation.
I think that's the struggle of our normality is that we have oppressed desires because of what is accepted and not accepted in society.
We are acting on our desire; there is nothing wrong. Just remember if it does not pan out, if our desires go unfulfilled, it's perfect!
Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.
Long-term, perpetual travel is the dream of many. But surprisingly, for such a popular desire, few people realize how accessible it is.
Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
Be careful what you yearn for, because that which you desire most will either complete you or destroy you, and you don't get to choose.
It is unpleasing to represent our affairs to our own disadvantage; yet it is necessary to shew the evils which we desire to be removed.
The gothic reminds us that we are mainly driven by our passions; the Gothic deals in illicit desires, in what is prohibited by society.
Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?
We all need to demand the happiness for ourselves we desire. Fight for it. Wrestle it out of the clenched fist of the world you live in
Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed, happy or miserable.
What ought to be done is neglected, what ought not to be done is done; the desires of unruly, thoughtless people are always increasing.
The enabling power of the Atonement strengthens us to do and be good and to serve beyond our own individual desire and natural capacity.
For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.
The deepest desire of our hearts is for union for God. God created us for union with himself. This is the original purpose of our lives.
Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.
We are always boosting or trying to prop up the ego by fulfilling some desire or other, and always craving affirmation from the outside.
I knew I was too late—and I was glad something bloodthirsty waited in the wings. For in failing at this, I forfeited any desire to live.
What I want to know from students, and I ask them right away, is, 'What do you want? I don't care what it is. I want to help you get it.
I have no interest or desire to be head of Fine Gael.... I am ambitious for my country and I always said I would love to sit at Cabinet.
The slot machines sit there like young courtesans, promising pleasures undreamed of, your deepest desires fulfilled, all lusts satiated.
God does not fill with His Holy Spirit those who believe in the fullness of the Spirit, or those who desire Him, but those who obey Him.
Even in heavenly pleasures he finds no satisfaction, the disciple who is fully awakened delights only in the destruction of all desires.
No person among us desires any other reward for performing a brave and worthy action, but the consciousness of having served his nation.
The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained.
My most cherished desire is to help our women come out of their routine chores and infuse in them the indefatigable spirit of adventure.
Sensuality reconciles us with the human race. The misanthropy of the old is due in large part to the fading of the magic glow of desire.
We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.
I don't think there's a day that goes by that I don't feel like I've had enough and there's nothing left, but desire means...never quit.