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Desire Quotes

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

Virginia Woolf

Desire, Goals, Purpose

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It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

Democritus

Desire, Thinking

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Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

T. S. Eliot

Desire, Goals, Possibility

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A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than they need.

Mark Twain

Appreciation, Desire, Gratitude

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It is not because men’s desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

John Stuart Mill

Desire, Thinking

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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.

Aristotle

Desire, Self, Victory

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There are two ways to get enough: One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

G. K Chesterton

Desire, Gratitude, Life

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For you can only be free when even the desire of seeking freedom becomes a harness to you.

Kahlil Gibran

Desire, Freedom

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If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.

Plautus

Appreciation, Conflict, Desire, Gratitude

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Desire is the essence of a man.

Benedict Spinoza

Desire

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Your radiance shines in every atom of creation yet our petty desires keep it hidden.

Rumi

Desire

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Suppose your whole world seems to rock on its foundations. Hold on steadily, let it rock, and when the rocking is over, the picture will have reassembled itself into something much nearer to your heart’s desire.

Emmet Fox

Adversity, Desire

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The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.

Francis Bacon

Desire, Knowledge, Power

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The things are mighty few on earth That wishes can attain. Whate’er we want of any worth We’ve go to work to gain.

Edgar Guest

Desire, Goals, Work

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Grand Teton National Park

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

Jonathan Swift

Age, Desire

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Lake Tahoe

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

Susan B. Anthony

Desire, Trust

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Lake Tahoe

The mouth does not eat if the feet do not walk and the hands work.

African Proverb

Action, Desire, Responsibility, Work

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Cancun, Mexico

Desire doesn’t equal destiny.

African Proverb

Action, Desire, Destiny, Determination

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Lake Mead

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

Rumi

Desire, Work

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Lake Tahoe

When all your desires are distilled; You will cast just two votes—to love more, and be happy.

Rumi

Desire, Happiness, Love

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Arches National Park

You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.

Zig Ziglar

Customer Service, Desire, Service

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Glacier National Park

Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.

William Shakespeare

Desire, Faith, Knowledge, Love, Peace, Perception, Solitude

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Hawaii, Kula, Maui

He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.

William Blake

Desire

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Lake Tahoe

Those who restrain their desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

William Blake

Desire

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Lake Tahoe

Always desire to learn something useful.

Sophocles

Desire, Learning

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Mexico, Riviera Maya

Desire presses ever forward unsubdued.

Sigmund Freud

Desire

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To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts prosecution.

Samuel Johnson

Ambition, Desire, Happiness

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Yellowstone National Park

What you seek is seeking you.

Rumi

Affirmation, Choice, Decision, Desire, Destiny, Goals, Purpose

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