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The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause of action.
My soul desires a pre-industrial world, and since I can't have that, I don't really care for anything material.
I don't have any dark desires. And I think most people don't. A few have dark desires and don't sublimate them.
I've always had real trouble knowing what my actual desires and goals are. I've just been dragged along by fate.
There's something about America's sweetheart and America's bad boy. That juxtaposition is what everyone desires.
It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.
Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
The white working class desires safety for their families, but Islam brings everything but safety. Look at Europe!
Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.
Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.
First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.
Trying to project our expectations and our desires onto the sci-fi being written in China now isn't terribly helpful.
I wanted to pursue my own thing - I had desires, ideas I wanted to accomplish, and I needed to be on my own for that.
I feel like there's something in me that desires to express myself even more and not be so afraid of a solo endeavor.
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
This obedience to the voice of the Earth is more important for our future happiness... than the desires of the moment.
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
'Gillespie and I' is a deliciously morbid, almost smutty story, a compendium of inappropriate wants and smarmy desires.
Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible.
The U.S. will ignore the opinion of the Iraqi people and it will compose the new government according to its own desires.
We are driven by the same fears and the same loves and the same ambitions and the same desires, whatever language we speak.
I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.
As in many other industries, the luxury fashion consumer increasingly desires to put a personal stamp on important purchases.
I'm the sort of person that doesn't really have specific 'inspiration.' It probably comes more from my doubts and my desires.
I don't have a lot of desires, you see; I feel so lucky. God has give me a lot of things already; there's nothing to ask for.
My desires are simply I love to teach, I love to be in uniform, I love to throw batting practice, I love to be with the kids.
I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.
There's something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live.
As the hart desires the spring of living water, so my soul desires to leave the prison of this dark body and see You in truth.
The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.
He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.
Yes, I will promise you anything your little elector heart desires... Of course, I have no intention of keeping any promise I make.
If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?
I was taught to be demure, so it was harder for me to learn how to stand up for myself and go, 'What do I want? What are my desires?'
If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.
You have to take a leap of faith before exposing yourself completely in terms of feelings and desires - especially if you're a woman.
There are the aesthetic pressures for a woman to be pretty and sexy, but not sexual or have desires beyond winning a guy's affections.
Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires.
Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed, happy or miserable.
Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.
When the soul is understood and attended to, we can be liberated from hurry, preoccupation, unsatisfied desires, and chronic discontent.
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 spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.
Inspiration comes and goes when it pleases. It's independent of our desires, doesn't respond well to force, and refuses to be controlled.
If we remove all judgment and preconceived ideas of who a person is, the truth is, we are all blessed with the same emotions and desires.
When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there.
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.