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«I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires»
Author: John Cleese (Actor) | About: Desire | Keywords: get rid of, Just One, rid of
«Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words»
Author: Baruch Spinoza (Philosopher) | About: Desire, Language, Mankind, Words | Keywords: govern, moderate, moderated, moderating, tongues
«Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.»
Author: Orison Swett Marden | About: Desire, Destiny, Thought | Keywords: corresponded, corresponds, habitual
«Just as a fire is covered by smoke and a mirror is obscured by dust, just as the embryo rests deep within the womb, wisdom is hidden by selfish desire.»
Author: Bhagavad Gita | About: Desire, Fire, Wisdom | Keywords: embryo, Embryos, in embryo, obscured, womb
«It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.»
Author: Eric Hoffer (Writer) | About: Desire | Keywords: intense
«Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin (Essayist, Novelist, Playwright) | About: Desire, Fear | Keywords: affliction, crutch, crutches, desirable, divest, divested, frightening, released
«No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise»
Author: Martin Luther (Priest, Scholar) | About: Desire, Wisdom | Keywords: gown, gowns
«I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.»
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | About: Desire | Keywords: contented, desired, pleased
«Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.»
Author: Robert Frost | About: Cute love, Desire, Love | Keywords: desired, irresistible, irresistibly
«I have certainly known more men destroyed by the desire to have a wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots»
Author: William Butler Yeats (Dramatist, Poet, Writer) | About: Desire | Keywords: certainly, desire to know, destroyed, harlots
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