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• Desire is boundless, and boundlessness frightens us.

  Martha Roth

  Sex, Boundless

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• From the outset of the war, the Canadian people have clearly shown that it is their desire to help in every way to make Canadas war effort as effective as possible.

  William Lyon Mackenzie King

  War, People, Effort

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• An honest self-portrait is extremely rare because a man who has reached the degree of self-consciousness presupposed by the desire to paint his own portrait has almost always also developed an ego-consciousness which paints himself painting himself, and introduces artificial highlights and dramatic shadows.

  W. H. Auden

  Men, Self, Ego

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• Though the immediate impression of rebellion may obscure the fact, the task of authentic literature is nevertheless only conceivable in terms of a desire for fundamental communication with the reader.

  Georges Bataille

  Communication, Tasks, Fundamentals

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• 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.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Men, Doe, Needs

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• When God works in us, the will, being changed and sweetly breathed upon by the Spirit of God, desires and acts, not from compulsion, but responsively.

  Martin Luther

  Spirit, Changed, Compulsion

  Martin Luther (1823). “Martin Luther on the Bondage of the Will: Written in Answer to the Diatribe of Erasmus on Free-will. First Pub. in the Year of Our Lord 1525”, p.60

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• While my chosen form of story-writing is obviously a special and perhaps a narrow one, it is none the less a persistent and permanent type of expression, as old as literature itself. There will always be a certain small percentage of persons who feel a burning curiosity about unknown outer space, and a burning desire to escape from the prison-house of the known and the real into those enchanted lands of incredible adventure and infinite possibilities which dreams open up to us, and which things like deep woods, fantastic urban towers, and flaming sunsets momentarily suggest.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Dream, Real, Writing

  H.P. Lovecraft, Digital Papyrus (2014). “H.P. Lovecraft: The Ultimate Collection (160 Works Including Early Writings, Fiction, Collaborations, Poetry, Essays & Bonus Audiobook Links)”, p.1753, eBookIt.com

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• I never get to the end of mortifying sin because sin in my heart, where it's still marauding even though it's no longer dominant, sin in my heart is constantly expressing itself in new disorderly desires.

  J. I. Packer

  Heart, Sin, Ends

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• The fulfillment of every desire only reveals its inadequacy.

  Swami Prabhavananda

  Fulfillment, Inadequacy

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• Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he does not kill himself because of his learning. It is certainly not the learning he acquires that disorganizes religion; but the desire for knowledge wakens because religion becomes disorganized.

  Emile Durkheim

  Religious, Loss, Men

  W. S. F. Pickering, Emile Durkheim (2011). “Durkheim on Religion: A Selection of Readings with Bibliographies and Introductory Remarks”, p.55, Casemate Publishers

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• The desires of adults are not more important than the needs of children.

  Tim Walberg

  Children, Important, Adults

  "Supreme Court Expands Gay Rights In 2 Major Rulings". "Morning Edition" with Nina Totenberg, www.npr.org. June 27, 2013.

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• Why pray for the Kingdom of God to come unless you have in your heart a desire and a willingness to aid in its establishment? Praying for His will to be done and then not trying to live it, gives you a negative answer at once. You would not grant something to a child who showed that attitude towards a request he is making of you. If we pray for the success of some cause or enterprise, manifestly we are in sympathy with it. It is the height of disloyalty to pray for God's will to be done, and then fail to conform our lives to that will.

  David O. McKay

  Children, Attitude, Heart

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• At last, in the gray dawn of Civilization the fire in the Soul dies down. The dwindling powers rise to one more, half-successful, effort of creation, and produce the Classicism that is common to all dying Cultures. The soul thinks once again, and in Romanticism looks back piteously to its childhood; then finally, weary, reluctant, cold, it loses its desire to be, and, as in Imperial Rome, wishes itself out of the overlong daylight and back in the darkness of protomysticism in the womb of the mother in the grave.

  Oswald Spengler

  Mother, Successful, Thinking

  Oswald Spengler (1991). “The Decline of the West”, p.75, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals.

  Oswald Spengler

  War, Facts, Humans

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• The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interests of the desire to know-it involves suppression of hopes and fears, loves and hates, and the whole subjective emotional life, until we become subdued to the material, able to see it frankly, without preconceptions, without bias, without any wish except to see it as it is, and without any belief that what it is must be determined by some relation, positive or negative, to what we should like it to be, or to what we can easily imagine it to be.

  Bertrand Russell

  Attitude, Hate, Emotional

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• My fiction is almost always inspired by a character's need or desire to rise above him- or herself. No one is perfect and some of us have much adversity in our lives; it is those people who struggle to rise above their nature or background that I find the most interesting and heroic.

  Robert Crais

  Struggle, Character, Adversity

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• The secret of karma yoga which is to perform actions without any fruitive desires is taught by Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad-Gita.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Karma, Yoga, Secret

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• The desire for self-improvement is vital. There is no point in pushing children; they need to be the ones who want to learn new skills.

  Tony Buzan

  Children, Self, Skills

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• Artificiality is one curse that will drop away the moment we kneel at Jesus' feet and surrender ourselves to His meekness. Then we will not care what people think of us so long as God is pleased. Then what we are will be everything; what we appear will take its place far down the scale of interest for us. Apart from sin we have nothing of which to be ashamed. Only an evil desire to shine makes us want to appear other than we are.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Jesus, Thinking, Feet

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• I desire many things concerning myself; but I desire nothing so much, as to have a heart filled with love to the Lord. I long for a warm personal attachment to Him.

  George Muller

  Heart, Attachment, Long

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• I'm inspired by dreams and shadows, obsession and desire. By nature, I'm a dream collector and never stop working. I question people about their weirdest dreams and the strangest, most inexplicable experiences they've had. All this information whirls around in my mind, and new dreams emerge that form the seeds of stories and novels.

  Storm Constantine

  Dream, People, Mind

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• I have a new name for pain.
  What's that?
  The Obliterator. Because when you're in pain, nothing else can exist. Not thought. Not emotion. Only the drive to escape the pain. When it's strong enough, the Obliterator strips us of everything that makes us who we are, until we're reduced to creatures less than animals, creatures with a single desire and goal: escape.
  A good name, then.

  Christopher Paolini

  Strong, Pain, Animal

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1078, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Purity is innocence, the innocence of lack of self. Desire is innocent unless it's connected with self.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Self, Innocence

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• Factory farmers talk about their desire to feed the world. That's not what they're doing. They're feeding the world with really, really cheap stuff.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  World, Stuff, Factories

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. November 17, 2009.

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• I'm not able to tell you what the best song is yet, because there's more to come. I feel that in me. I can still feel the burning energy and the desire to create and create and create.

  John Lydon

  Song, Energy, Burning

  Source: www.avclub.com

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