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~ All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. ~

Samuel Butler

~ Dancing: The vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music. ~

George Bernard Shaw

~ Hell is full of good wishes or desires. ~

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

~ I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself. ~

Niccolo Machiavelli

~ The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation. ~

Jean de la Bruyere

~ I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works. ~

Alfred the Great

~ Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. ~

G.K. Chesterton

~ Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion, it is not the desire to mate every second minute of the day, it is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every cranny of your body. No, dont blush, I am telling you some truths. That is just being in love, which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. ~

Louis de Bernieres

~ In any soul mate relationship, you will need to let go of the illusion that there is a perfect person waiting for you who will fulfill your every expectation and give your personality everything it desires once you are together. Do not expect your ideal soul mate to be someone who is always loving and easy to get along with, who agrees with everything you say or do, and who brings you a life of ease and comfort. ~

Sanaya Roman

~ We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in ~

Thomas Merton

~ In every living thing there is the desire for love. ~

D.H. Lawrence

~ Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and a madness of desire, oh, no, love is not that! It is goodness and honour and peace and pure living Yes, love is that and it is the best thing in the world and the thing that lives the longest. ~

Henry Van Dyke

~ Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire. ~

Daniel P. Moynihan

~ It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge. ~

Phyllis Diller

~ There can be no richer man or woman than the individual who has found his or her labor of love. Personal fulfillment through the virtue of work is the highest form of desire. Work is the conduit between the supply and the demand of all human needs, the forerunner of human progress, and the medium by which the imagination is given the wings of action. A labor of love is exalted because it provides joy and self-expression to those who perform it. ~

Dennis Kimbro

~ 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

~ I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being. ~

Edward Gibbon

~ The Coach is the antidote to the Victims Rescuer in the DDTMainly, a Coach supports, assists, and facilitates the Creator in manifesting a desired outcome. A Coach holds others to be whole, resourceful, and creativeThey help you dig deep inside yourself to gain clarity about what you want to create in your life. ~

David Emerald

~ Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities; and as long as the King of France treats me gently he will find me as gentle and tractable as he can desire; but if he be rough, I shall take the trouble to be just as troublesome and offensive to him as I can. ~

Elizabeth I

~ Nostalgic memory is a sudden encounter with the thingness of the thing that has been forgotten, not the continuous desire for possessions, whether past, present, or future. ~

Marjorie B. Garber

~ Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home. ~

Novalis

~ It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality. Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation. ~

Bertolt Brecht

~ The moment a mere numerical superiority by either states or voters in this country proceeds to ignore the needs and desires of the minority, and for their own selfish purpose or advancement, hamper or oppress that minority, or debar them in any way from equal privileges and equal rights -- that moment will mark the failure of our constitutional system. ~

Franklin D. Roosevelt

~ To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to, achieve. Shall man\'s basest desires receive the fullest measure of gratification, and his purest aspirations starve for lack of sustenance? Such is not the Law: such a condition of things can never obtain: \"ask and receive.\" Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your Vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your Ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil. ~

James Allen

~ Take patience as your pillow, hug poverty, discard lusts, oppose your desires and know that you are seen by God, so look at how you are. ~

Muhammad ibn Al_al Taqi

~ Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need. ~

Gaston Bachelard

~ This life is a hospital where each patient is possessed by the desire to change his bed. ~

Charles Baudelaire

~ A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. ~

Albert Einstein

~ Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and madness of desire - oh, no - love is not that! It is goodness and honor and peace and pure living - yes, love is that and it is the best thing in the world and the thing that lives the longest. ~

Henry Van Dyke

~ The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying. ~

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