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• That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire; / Before you know what is left to be desired; / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind.

  T. S. Eliot

  Worst Moments, Wish, Goes On

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• I've learned... that we should be glad God doesn't give us everything we ask for.

  Andy Rooney

  Giving, I've Learned, Should

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• We demand to be coaxed and comforted, to be encouraged and gratified, so we choose a teacher who will give us what we crave for. We do not search out reality, but go after gratification and sensation.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Teacher, Reality, Giving

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Commentaries on Living 2”, p.134, M-y books ltd

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• aim, n. The task we set our wishes to.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wish, Tasks, Aim

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2354, Delphi Classics

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• Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Animal, Men, Satisfied

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• We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.

  Publilius Syrus

  Ought

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 559, 1856.

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• Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Believe, Thoughtful, Love Is

  "The Soul of a Nation: Culture, Morality, Law, Education, Faith". Book by Bernard J. Coughlin, p. 27, 2012.

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• All men by nature desire knowledge.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Education, Learning

  "Metaphysics". Book by Aristotle. Book I, 980a.21,

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• Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Life, Heart, May

  "Memory". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1996.

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• If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Motivational, Business

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Women, Men

  Table Talk 23 July 1827 (1835)

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• Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happiness, Being Happy, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.134, Рипол Классик

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• It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Christian, Heart, Office

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.61, Harvard University Press

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• The desire to write grows with writing.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Writing, Great Writing, Grows

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• EVERY intense desire is perhaps basically a desire to be different from what we are.

  Eric Hoffer

  Different, Intense

  "The Passionate State of Mind".

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• Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

  Samuel Johnson

  Progress, Want, Evolution

  Samuel Johnson (1798). “Dr. Johnson's Table Talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners; with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Dr. Boswell's Life of Johnson”, p.230

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• Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Nature, Men, Heaven

  "Méditations Poétiques". Book by Alphonse de Lamartine, 1820.

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• To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

  James Russell Lowell

  Education, Knowledge, New Horizons

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• ... we believe in the vocation of communion and participation of our people, who day to day awaken to their political conscience and express their desire for change and profound democratization of society. A change based on justice, built with love, and which will bring us the most anxiously desired fruits of peace.

  Adolfo Perez Esquivel

  Believe, People, Profound

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• Desire is the key to motivation.

  Mario Andretti

  Motivation, Keys

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power.

  Walter Lippmann

  Power, Men, Source

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Memorable, Unrequited Love, Punishment

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• This is a very important practice. Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself.
  When you are carried away with your worries, fears, cravings, anger, and desire, you run away from yourself and you lose yourself.
  The practice is always to go back to oneself.

  Nhat Hanh

  Running, Anger, Practice

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2013). “Going Home”, p.38, Random House

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• People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Inspirational, Life, People

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• O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire.

  Robert Browning

  Love, Angel, Bird

  'The Ring and the Book' (1868-9) bk. 1, l. 1391

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