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• Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

  Blaise Pascal

  Our Actions, Causes, Responsible

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• Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.

  Teresa of Avila

  Humility, Suffering, Comfort

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• The discipline of desire is the background of character.

  John Locke

  Philosophical, Character, Discipline

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• I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

  John Stuart Mill

  Inspirational, Happiness, Being Happy

  "The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health". "The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health", Vol. LXXXV, p. 170, September, 1887.

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• Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly, that you feel you could die of it!

  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

  Love, Valentines Day, Feels

  "La Vie de Toulouse-Lautrec' (T-Lautrec)". Book by Henri Perruchot translated by Humphrey Hare (p. 76), 1960/1961.

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• As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.

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  Ram Dass

  Spiritual, Yoga, Long

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• Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Half, Indifference

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• Desire grows by what it feeds on.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Grows

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “ANNE SHIRLEY Complete Series - ALL 14 Books in One Volume: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more: Including the Memoirs & Letters of Lucy Maud Montgomery”, p.2313, e-artnow

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• The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Men, Significance

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Aspiration

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1872). “Faust: A Tragedy”, p.203

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• Supply always comes on the heels of demand.

  Robert Collier

  High Heels, Demand, Heels

  Robert Collier (2013). “The Secret of the Ages: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams”, p.71, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Paradise is surrounded by what we dislike; the fires of hell are surrounded by what we desire.

  Rumi

  Fire, Paradise, Hell

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• The beginning of pride and hatred lies in worldly desire, and the strength of your desire if from habit. When an evil tendency becomes confirmed by habit, rage is triggered when anyone restrains you.

  Rumi

  Strength, Lying, Pride

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• There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.

  Upton Sinclair

  Men, Bars, Kind

  Upton Sinclair (2015). “The Jungle: A Novel”, p.303, Open Road Media

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• And yes, there definitely are many good desires. For example, without the desire for food we would not stay alive. It is when our desire becomes an unquenchable craving or obsession, or causes us to do harm to ourselves or others, that it creates suffering and unhappiness. If you have ever been hurt because you tied your happiness or well-being to a person, place, opinion, self-identity, behavior, or goal, then you have firsthand experience of desire.

  Don Altman

  Hurt, Self, Goal

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• We believe easily what we fear of what we desire

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Believe, Credulity

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• I admit it is better fun to punt than be punted, and that a desire to have all the fun is nine-tenths of the law of chivalry.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Fun, Law, Nine

  'Gaudy Night' (1935) ch. 14

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• Bliss becomes blissful with practice. In our own bliss the desire, desirer and process of desiring are united - they are one. Desire is fulfilled at its source.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Practice, Bliss, Source

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• Her desire for fame is like her hair. It keeps getting bigger. [on Diana Ross

  Johnny Mathis

  Hair, Like Her, Fame

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• It is better to desire than to enjoy, to love than to be loved.

  William Hazlitt

  Heart, Break, Enjoy

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1492, Delphi Classics

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• Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Men, Perfect, Judging

  Thomas a Kempis (1913). “The Imitation of Christ”

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  We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

  Eric Hoffer

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• If you want a thing--truly want it, want it so badly that you need it as you need air to breathe, then unless you die, you will have it. Why not? It has you. There is no escape. What a cruel and terrible thing escape would be if escape were possible

  Octavia Butler

  Air, Would Be, Needs

  Octavia E. Butler (1998). “Parable of the Talents: A Novel”, p.363, Seven Stories Press

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• Within you is the divine capacity to manifest and attract all you desire.

  Wayne Dyer

  Positive, Faith, Divine

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• Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom.

  Dalai Lama

  Peace, Freedom, Matter

  Dalai Lama XIV, Rajiv Mehrotra (2010). “In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy”, p.138, ReadHowYouWant.com

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