Desire Quotes - Page 34

• Dreams are distorted representations of desire. So are dream- analyses.

  Mason Cooley

  Dream, Analysis, Representation

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• I dream of vague shapes that hint of my heart's desire.

  Mason Cooley

  Dream, Heart, Hints

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• As desire recedes, the world becomes clear, pale, and empty.

  Mason Cooley

  World, Empty, Pale

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• Yearning wants mostly to perpetuate itself.

  Mason Cooley

  Want, Yearning

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• Rebuttals never alter desire.

  Mason Cooley

  Rebuttal

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• Shameless: Punish me for my desire if you will. It burns still.

  Mason Cooley

  Shame, Stills, Ifs

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• The cues that arouse desire are changed by Fashion, but feel like the proddings of Nature.

  Mason Cooley

  Fashion, Nature, Changed

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• When I try to portray to myself my heart's desire, nothing happens.

  Mason Cooley

  Heart, Trying, Happens

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• I am kept in bondage by the moles of my beloved.

  Mason Cooley

  Moles, Beloved, Bondage

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• Desire is wakeful; satisfaction dozes.

  Mason Cooley

  Satisfaction

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• My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived.

  Mason Cooley

  Self, Way, Intention

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• Sexual attraction keeps throwing self-interest off course.

  Mason Cooley

  Self, Throwing, Interest

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• Seek and Hide: the Lover gazes at the Beloved. The Beloved looks away. The Beloved turns and looks at the Lover. The Lover runs away.

  Mason Cooley

  Running, Looks, Lovers

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• Habit keeps my life going, with occasional pushes from desire.

  Mason Cooley

  Gone, Habit, Occasional

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• Sorrow also fulfills Desire. Example: the Soaps.

  Mason Cooley

  Sorrow, Example, Soap

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• There is a natural rhythm to the active and receptive energies within us. At times our energy is strong and outgoing - it is time to pursue our goals, take risks, get things accomplished. At other times, our energy is quiet and sensitive, and we need to take time to nurture ourselves, relax, and just 'be' for a while. As we trust and follow this rhythm, we attract everything we need and create everything we truly desire.

  Shakti Gawain

  Strong, Goal, Risk

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• I no longer have it (desire to play).

  Joe DiMaggio

  Play

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• The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Running, Concern, Extremes

  John B. S. Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (1945). “Possible Worlds”, p.26, Transaction Publishers

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• By and large it is uniformly true in mathematics that there is a time lapse between a mathematical discovery and the moment when it is useful; and that this lapse of time can be anything from 30 to 100 years, in some cases even more; and that the whole system seems to function without any direction, without any reference to usefulness, and without any desire to do things which are useful.

  John von Neumann

  Years, Discovery, Lapses

  "The Role of Mathematics in the Sciences and in Society". John von Neumann's address to Princeton alumni (1954) as quoted in "John von Neumann: Collected Works" edited by A. H. Taub, 1963.

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• Refined, intense, wise, stiring, immediate, subtile, all the charmed qualities gather in Dropping the Bow. These translations are precious jewels. Like the erotic moods they investigate, these versions shimmer and startle with a palpable desire to be heard, and a mystical sense of impermanence. This is a transmission of a vital, extraordinary tradition.

  Anne Waldman

  Wise, Jewels, Erotic

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• A hopeful book that moms will relish, Blue Like Playdough is an honest, peel-back-the-covers look at the creative way God shapes us through childhood and parenthood. Tricia Goyer explores her own weaknesses along the journey, revealing her desire to serve the God who forms strength and joy and perseverance within her. A compelling, fresh read.

  Mary E. DeMuth

  Mom, Perseverance, Book

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• I love you Lord, you are my strength. The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my savior. And my God is my rock in whom I find protection. He is my shield, the strength of my salvation, and my stronghold. I will call on the Lord who is worthy of praise. I praise the Lord, my God, my best friend, for giving me the ability, the desire, the love and the guidance that brought me here today. Without you, I would be nothing.

  Gary Carter

  Love You, Rocks, Giving

  Gary Carter, Phil Pepe (2008). “Still a Kid at Heart: My Life in Baseball and Beyond”, p.214, Triumph Books

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• We can't just stop. We're not rocks-progress, migration, motion is... modernity. It's ANIMATE, it's what living things do. We desire. Even if all we desire is stillness, it's still desire for.

  Tony Kushner

  Rocks, Progress, Migration

  Tony Kushner (2013). “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition”, p.275, Theatre Communications Group

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• Remember that there is a God who desires neither praise nor glory from men created in his image, but rather that they, guided by the understanding given them, should in their actions become like unto him.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Understanding, Action

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• The desire for riches is simply the capacity for a larger life seeking fulfillment; every desire is the effort of an unexpressed possibility come into action.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Effort, Riches, Action

  Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “The Science of Wallace D. Wattles: The Science of Being Well, The Science of Getting Rich & The Science of Being Great – Complete Trilogy: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of How to Promote Yourself, New Science of Living and Healing, Hellfire Harrison, A New Christ, How to Get What You Want and Jesus The Man and His Work”, p.23, e-artnow

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