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• I do not desire to die soon, because in Heaven there is no suffering. I desire to live a long time because I yearn to suffer much for the love of my Spouse.

  Magdalena de Pazzi

  Long, Heaven, Suffering

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• Persons who have no desire to live have a very slight chance of recovery. We can continue to extend to them our love, sympathy, and prayers; but ultimately we must respect a person's decision to die.

  Michio Kushi

  Love, Prayer, Recovery

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• Art includes everything which stimulates the desire to live; science includes everything which sharpens the desire to know. Art, even the most disinterested, the most disembodied, is the auxiliary of life.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Art, Knowledge, Science

  "Selections from All His Works".

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• A nation has a soul, a spiritual principle. One is in the past, the other in the present. One is the possession of a rich legacy of memories; the other is the desire to live together and to value the common heritage.

  Ernest Renan

  Spiritual, Peace, Memories

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• Much of a poet's experience takes place in imagination only; the life he tells is oftenest the life that he strongly desires to live, and the power, the purity and height of his utterance may not seldom be the greater because experience here uses the voices of desire.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Voice, Imagination, Desire

  George Edward Woodberry (1920). “Collected Essays: The torch and other lectures and addresses”

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• Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

  Jonathan Swift

  Cute, Men, Long

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• There is no more desire to live past one's time than to die before it.

  Isaac Asimov

  Death, Past, Desire

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• There will never Queen sit in my seat with more zeal to my country, care to my subjects and that will sooner with willingness venture her life for your good and safety than myself. For it is my desire to live nor reign no longer than my life and reign shall be for your good. And though you have had, and may have, many princes more mighty and wise sitting in this seat, yet you never had nor shall have, any that will be more careful and loving.

  Elizabeth I

  Wise, Country, Queens

  Farewell Speech to the House of Commons, en.wikisource.org. November 30, 1601.

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• All action is generated by desire. It is the desire to live that causes us to reincarnate.

  Frederick Lenz

  Desire, Causes, Action

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• If we desire to live securely, comfortably, and quietly, that by all honest means we should endeavor to purchase the good will of all men, and provoke no man's enmity needlessly; since any man's love may be useful, and every man's hatred is dangerous.

  Isaac Barrow

  Mean, Men, Hatred

  Isaac Barrow (1839). “The Sermons and Expository Treatises of Isaac Barrow: With a Life of the Author”, p.271

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• To be an artist is not about fame; it's about art, which is this intangible thing that has got to have lots of integrity, whereas being famous doesn't really take any integrity. But I think you have to admit that you want to be famous, otherwise you can't be an artist. Art and fame together are like a desire to live forever.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Integrity, Thinking

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• When man desires to live as long as a tree, his diet will be fruit.

  Brigham Young

  Men, Long, Tree

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• The inert mind is a greater danger than the inert body, for it overlays and stifles the desire to live.

  Robertson Davies

  Mind, Desire, Body

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• Bind to you friends of your own kind, friends who will encourage you, stand with you, live as you desire to live, who will enjoy the same kind of entertainment, and who will resist the evil that you determine to resist.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Evil, Desire, Entertainment

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• There appears to exist a greater desire to live long than to live well! Measure by man's desires, he cannot live long enough; measure by his good deeds, and he has not lived long enough; measure by his evil deeds, and he has lived too long.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Life, Men, Long

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• Whatever may be open to disagreement, there is one act of evil that may not, the act that no man may commit against others and no man may sanction or forgive. So long as men desire to live together, no man may initiate—do you hear me? no man may start—the use of physical force against others.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Long, Evil

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.108, Penguin

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• Tuberculosis, starvation, fatigue, and there are many who have no desire to live.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Desire, Tuberculosis, Buchenwald

  CBS radio broadcast from Buchenwald, www.lib.berkeley.edu. April 15, 1945.

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• Ours is certainly not an old culture. Yet in recent decades we've used more energy, destroyed more soil, created more pathogenicity (temporarily stopped some too, for sure), mutated more bacteria, and dumped more toxicity on the planet than all the cultures before us-combined. I love the United States, but I am not blind to the wrongs. I have no desire to live anywhere else, but that doesn't mean I think everything we're doing should be done or can be maintained.

  Joel Salatin

  Mean, Thinking, Desire

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• An affirmation is simply a positive declaration of something you believe to be true or something you expect to become true and desire to live by. Affirmations transform your thinking, your attitudes, and finally, your behavior. Their impact on attitudes and behavior help to produce the results you desire.

  Paul J. Meyer

  Attitude, Believe, Thinking

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• I have no desire to live anywhere else but New Zealand. I've had the good fortune to travel widely around the world, but New Zealand is home - and I like to be here. I'm proud to be a New Zealander.

  Edmund Hillary

  Home, Desire, Proud

  "Sir Edmund Hillary's last ever interview". Interview with Maggie Barry, www.noted.co.nz. January 26, 2008.

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• When the Holy Spirit sanctifies believers, he does a complete work in them. He puts into their minds, wills and hearts a gracious, supernatural principle which fills them with a holy desire to live to God. The whole life and being of holiness lies in this. This is the new creation.

  John Owen

  Lying, Heart, Mind

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• I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people. Therefore I have cause to wish nothing more than to content the subject and that is a duty which I owe. Neither do I desire to live longer days than I may see your prosperity and that is my only desire.

  Elizabeth I

  Queens, People, Wish

  Elizabeth I (2002). “Elizabeth I: Collected Works”, p.337, University of Chicago Press

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• It is my fundamental belief that all human beings share the same basic aspirations: that we all want hapiness and that we all share suffering. Asians, just like Americans, Europeans, and the rest of the world, share a desire to live life to its fullest, to better ourselves and the lives of our loved ones.

  Dalai Lama

  Live Life, Suffering, Desire

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• Let no one who has the slightest desire to live in peace and quietness be tempted, under any circumstances, to enter upon the chivalrous task of trying to correct a popular error.

  William Thoms

  Errors, Desire, Trying

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• The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.

  Richard Powers

  Ideas, Imagination, Desire

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