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• I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

  E. B. White

  Life, Good Morning, Time

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.148, Cornell University Press

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• Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.

  Andre Breton

  Art, Wall, Booty

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• Land of Heart's Desire Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.

  William Butler Yeats

  Song, Heart, Land

  The Land of Heart's Desire (1894) p. 36

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• If one's life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital: satisfaction with just enough food, clothing, and shelter to protect yourself from the elements.

  Dalai Lama

  Simple, Simplicity, Feelings

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• Fortunately, the war has brought with it not alone a stark realization of what another war would mean to the world, but as well the creation of an international agency through which the nations of the world can, if they so desire, make peace a living reality.

  Cordell Hull

  War, Mean, Reality

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• The clearer you are about the consequences of your actions and the more intensely you desire to enjoy the consequences that your behaviors may lead to, the more motivated you will be.

  Brian Tracy

  May, Action, Behavior

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• Bring me my bow of burning gold: Bring me my arrows of desire: Bring me my spear: O clouds, unfold! Bring me my chariot of fire.

  William Blake

  Fire, Clouds, Arrows

  Milton preface (1804 - 1810)

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• I had no desire to crash a man's world.

  Ida Lupino

  Men, World, Crash

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• I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for me what thou knowest to be best and do not put my perdition in what my autonomy and free choice prefer.

  Bayazid Bastami

  Choices, Ignorant, Cases

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• I was taught that everything is attainable if you are prepared to give up, to sacrifice, to get it. Whatever you want to do, you can do it, if you want it badly enough, and I do believe that. I believe that if I wanted to run a mile is four minutes I could do it. I would have to give up everything else in my life, but I could run a mile in four minutes. I believe that if a man wanted to walk on water and was prepared to give up everything else in life, he could do that.

  Stirling Moss

  Running, Giving Up, Believe

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• I have always believed that anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, can make anything he wants to make of himself.

  Bill Shoemaker

  Want, Littles, Guts

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• The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.

  John Vanbrugh

  Want, Enough, Possession

  'The Confederacy' (1705) act 1, sc. 2

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• Understand clearly that when a great need appears a great use appears also; when there is small need there is small use; it is obvious, then, that full use is made of all things at all times according to the necessity thereof.

  Dogen

  Needs, Use, Made

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• It will not do, my friend, to grant an easy indulgence to natural appetite and desire, for they ever seek to be our masters.

  Timothy Shay Arthur

  Easy, Natural, Appetite

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• As all-consuming as a young girl's fancies were ... a woman's desires could be twice as dangerous.

  Teresa Medeiros

  Girl, Fancy, Young

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• If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Two, Enemy

  Thomas Hobbes (2016). “Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan (Longman Library of Primary Sources in Philosophy)”, p.82, Routledge

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• Desire animates the world. It is present in the baby crying for milk, the girl struggling to solve a math problem, the woman running to meet her lover and later deciding to have children, and the old woman, hunched over her walker, moving down the hall of the nursing home at a glacial pace to pick up her mail. Banish desire from the world, and you get a world of frozen beings who have no reason to live and no reason to die.

  William Braxton Irvine

  Girl, Running, Baby

  William Braxton Irvine (2007). “On Desire: Why We Want what We Want”, p.2, Oxford University Press

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• There's a wall between you and what you want and you got to leap it.

  Bob Dylan

  Wall, Want, Leap

  Song: The Groom's Still Waiting at The Altar, 1981

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• Thoughts are to the Desires as Scouts and Spies, to range abroad, and find the way to the things Desired.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Spy, Way, Range

  Thomas Hobbes (1651). “Leviathan: Or, The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill”, p.35

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• Why can I never set my heart on a possible thing?

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Hope, Heart, Ambition

  URSULA K. LE GUIN (1976). “THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS”

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• My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.

  Carl Andre

  Art, Spring, World

  Carl Andre, James Sampson Meyer (2005). “Cuts: Texts 1959-2004”, p.85, MIT Press

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• Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

  Adela Florence Nicolson

  Virtue, Devotion, Arise

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• But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking.

  Mike Figgis

  Movie, Strong, Needs

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• A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.

  William Hazlitt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.218, Delphi Classics

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• Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

  Amy Lowell

  Art, Men, Expression

  Amy Lowell (1931). “Tendencies in Modern American Poetry”, p.7, Ardent Media

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