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Desire
«I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires»
«Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words»
Author: Baruch Spinoza
(Philosopher)
| About:
Desire,
Language,
Mankind,
Words
| Keywords:
govern, moderate, moderated, moderating, tongues
«Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.»
Author: Orison Swett Marden
| About:
Desire,
Destiny,
Thought
| Keywords:
corresponded, corresponds, habitual
«Just as a fire is covered by smoke and a mirror is obscured by dust, just as the embryo rests deep within the womb, wisdom is hidden by selfish desire.»
«It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.»
«Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Desire,
Fear
| Keywords:
affliction, crutch, crutches, desirable, divest, divested, frightening, released
«I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.»
«Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.»
Author: Robert Frost
| About:
Cute love,
Desire,
Love
| Keywords:
desired, irresistible, irresistibly
«I have certainly known more men destroyed by the desire to have a wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Desire
| Keywords:
certainly, desire to know, destroyed, harlots
