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~ Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires ~

~ Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance. ~

William Wirt

~ A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories. ~

Antoine de Saint-ExupÈry

~ Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. ~

George Bernard Shaw

~ Her kisses left something to be desired... the rest of her. ~

Unknown

~ Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul. ~

Will Durant

~ All men by nature desire knowledge. ~

Aristotle

~ Desire creates the power. ~

Raymond Hollingwell

~ By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name. ~

Plato

~ Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure. ~

Roland Barthes

~ Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment. ~

Eric Butterworth

~ There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the face of the world, and for independence and freedom. Secondly, we have what we may call the desire for reputation or prestige ~

Abraham Maslow

~ What all your sex desire is Sovereignty ~

John Dryden

~ There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be. ~

Charles Pierce

~ Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. ~

Sigmund Freud

~ Dancing is the perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. ~

Unknown

~ All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired. ~

Martin Luther

~ Faith is an invisible and invincible magnet, and attracts to itself whatever it fervently desires and calmly and persistently expects. ~

Ralph Waldo Trine

~ Desire and hope will push us on toward the future ~

Michel de Montaigne

~ Pride makes us esteem ourselves; vanity desires the esteem of others. ~

Unknown

~ Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires ~

Marcelene Cox

~ A man of ability and the desire to accomplish something can do anything. ~

Donald Kircher

~ We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory ~

Marcus Tullius Cicero

~ The defect of equality is that we desire it only with our superiors. ~

Henry Becque

~ I desire neither victory nor pleasure nor kingdom, O Krishna. What is the use of the kingdom, or enjoyment, or even life? ~

Bhagavad Gita

~ The discipline of desire is the background of character. ~

John Locke

~ The discipline of desire is the background of character. ~

John Locke

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

Jalal ad-Din Rumi

~ Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief. ~

Leo Burnett

~ The victory of a war is not determined by the size of an army or the quality of armaments. Factors like unshakable determination, heroism, and desire for liberation determine victory. ~

Vellupillai Pirapakaran

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