Quotes 141 till 160 of 350.
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If you purify your soul of attachment to and desire for things, you will understand them spiritually. If you deny your appetite for them, you will enjoy their truth, understanding what is certain in them.
St. John of the Cross
Spanish mystic, a Roman Catholic saint, a Carmelite friar and a priest (1542 - 1591) -
If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.
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If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.
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If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.
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Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will.
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In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
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In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
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In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.
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In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
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In the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If perticular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebelion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.
Letter to John Adams, 31 March 1776 -
Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.
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It (racing) is a matter of spirit, not strength. It is a matter of doing your best each little moment. There's never a break. You must have desire, a very intense desire to keep going.
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It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
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It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.
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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
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It is easy enough to be virtuous When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within No voice of sin Is luring your soul away. But it is only a negative virtue until it is tried by fire. For the soul that is worth the treasures of the earth is the soul that resists desire.
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It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.
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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.
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