Desire

(468 votes)   The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

Germaine De Stael
1766-1817, French-Swiss Novelist

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(359 votes)   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 Al-Bistami

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(310 votes)   There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and the fear of death the poets have eloquently spoken. They command the world's sympathy. But there are also discreditable anguishes, no less excruciating than the others, but of which the sufferer dare not, cannot speak. The anguish of thwarted desire, for example.

Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author

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(291 votes)   O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire.

Robert Browning
1812-1889, British Poet

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(280 votes)   Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

Lao-Tzu
BC 600-?, Chinese Philosopher, Founder of Taoism, Author of the ''Tao Te Ching''

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(277 votes)   In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.

Harriet Beecher Stowe
1811-1896, American Novelist, Antislavery Campaigner

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(277 votes)   We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

Christian Nevell Bovee
1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer

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(272 votes)   Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power

Walter Lippmann
1889-1974, American Journalist

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(255 votes)   I know that if I ever go looking for my heart's desire, I'll never go any further than my own back yard. For if it isn't there, I never really lost it.

Wizard of Oz - Dorothy Movie

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(255 votes)   One essential to success is that your desire be an all-obsessing one, your thoughts and aim be coordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup.

Claude M. Bristol
1891-1951, American Author of ''The Magic of Believing''

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(249 votes)   There is a vast difference in some instances between what we really need and that which we think we must have, and the realization of this truth will greatly lessen the seeming discomfort in doing without.

William M. Peck

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(246 votes)   The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.

Sir John Vanbrugh
1664-1726, British Playwright and Baroque architect

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(242 votes)   The key that unlocks energy is ''Desire.'' It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited.

Earl Nightingale
1921-1989, American Radio Announcer, Author, Motivator, Speaker

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(237 votes)   You can have anything you want -- if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, have anything you desire, accomplish anything you set out to accomplish -- if you will hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

Robert Collier
American Writer, Publisher

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(230 votes)   It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.

Henry Fielding
1707-1754, British Novelist, Dramatist

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