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I have desired to do good, but I have not desired to make noise, because I have felt that noise did no good and that good made no noise.
To the ego, loving and wanting are the same, whereas true love has no wanting in it, no desire to possess or for your partner to change.
A government does not desire its powers to be strictly defined, but the subjects require the line to be drawn with increasing precision.
Clean energy is good for the environment, good for national security, and good for thousands of Americans who desire a rewarding career.
You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.
The desire for legitimate offspring is, in fact, according to the Catholic Church, the only motive which can justify sexual intercourse.
My husband has no desire to work with me. He gets paid a lot of money to write giant movies. He's not into humoring me with my projects.
Pentecost is a celebration of God... a celebration of God's power... a celebration of God's desire to empower us and to dwell within us.
Just as a man does not desire food until he is hungry, so does he not desire the salvation of Christ until he knows why he needs Christ.
A man of limited desire will always have less or perhaps nothing to worry and sensibly no fear of losing anything or everything in life.
...the word that seems best to summarize the desire of the human heart is 'communion.' ...wherever we look it is communion that we seek.
The word sharing affirms that we have something extraordinarily valuable and desire to give it to others for their benefit and blessing.
We must not subject him who creates to the desires of the multitude. It is, rather, his creation that must become the multitude's desire.
The desire for beauty, the hunger for union, the passion to be part of something greater than self, all arise out of our bent to worship.
The object of man's desire is not to enjoy once only, and for one instant of time; but to assure for ever, the way of his future desires.
I say that every prince must desire to be considered merciful and not cruel. He must, however, take care not to misuse this mercifulness.
The good thing about getting older is that, as you become less attractive, so you have less desire to go out and conquer everyone you see
Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values.
He [the cat] wound himself around her legs, purring the purr of ardent desire like a kettle coming to a boil and then bubbling very fast.
The opposite of heterosexual desire is the eroticising of sameness, a sameness of power, equality and mutuality. It is homosexual desire.
Desire is poison at lunch and wormwood at dinner; your bed is a stone, friendship is hateful and your fancy is always fixed on one thing.
Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.
It takes a long time to become a lawyer because you need three things - a bachelor's degree, a law degree, and a desire to worship Satan.
The medievalist has the capacity, and the desire, to harmonize. He believes the planets sing in harmony; why cannot technology also sing?
Does not any limit imposed upon one inspire a desire to go beyond it? Does not our keenest suffering arise when our free will is crossed?
I think the cultural task is to separate our impulses and needs and desires from the supernatural and, above all, from the superstitious.
Part of my driving desire as a pastor is to remove every obstacle except the cross that would keep people from coming to faith in Christ.
The most significant life is the one lived on the basis of a personal sense of justice and the desire to see justice realized everywhere.
You never put off until tomorrow or even this afternoon what you can do this morning. Attack the objective when your desire is strongest.
The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.
What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
Electric light is just another instrument. I have no desire to contrive fantasies mediumistically or sociologically over it or beyond it.
Sexual passion is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious... and consequently the concentration of all desire
We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember.
Julian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are puppets of our subconscious desires.
I'm in training to become a midwife. I'm almost there and before I know it I'll be able to open my own practice, if that's what I desire.
Live contemplating the body through mindfulness. Live contemplating feelings. In this way you will be aware of and control wrong desires.
In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two works, industry and frugality.
A connection to Spirit restores your confidence, relieves your anxiety, and frees you from the desire to control everything in your life.
Wealth does not teach us to transcend the desire for wealth. The possession of many goods does not bring the repose of not desiring them.
In my heart, my first desire was to be a dancer. I always wanted to dance and I danced from the time I was 7 till I was well into my 30s.
The Dalai Lama has taught me that the best way to live life is to try and avoid desire. Desire is really the basic source of unhappiness.
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.
A man after God's own heart is... a man who yearns to please God, a man who desires to grow spiritually, a man who had a heart that obeys.
Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.
The explosion of jihad and its desire to export its contagious madness to all areas of the world have changed the way we view immigration.
I don't know if you have ever been the object of someone's obsession - but if it's not of your desire, it is horrible. It is really awful.
Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.