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~ Pregnancy is barbaric. ‚Ä¶ The husband's guilty waning of sexual desire, the woman's tears in front of the mirror at eight months are all gut reactions, not to be dismissed as cultural habits. ... Three thousand years ago women giving birth 'naturally' had no need to pretend that pregnancy was a real trip, some mystical orgasm ~

The Children

~ The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry. ~

James Truslow Adams

~ There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it. ~

Napoleon Hill

~ All envy is proportionate to desire. ~

Samuel Johnson

~ Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed. ~

Channing Pollock

~ All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire. ~

Aristotle

~ The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals. ~

William Osler

~ True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense ~

Emanuel Swedenborg

~ Being listened to and heard is one of the greatest desires of the human heart. ~

Richard Carlson

~ Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had. ~

Aristotle

~ If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it. ~

Brendan Francis

~ A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs. ~

Mark Twain

~ Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy. ~

Samuel Johnson

~ All human activity is prompted by desire. ~

Bertrand Russell

~ The first principle of success is desire -- knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed. ~

Robert Collier

~ There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it. ~

George Bernard Shaw

~ I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies. ~

Aristotle

~ Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire. ~

Arab Proverb

~ Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire. ~

Arab Proverb

~ Desire, like the atom, is explosive with creative force. ~

Paul Vernon Buser

~ In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. ~

Jane Smiley

~ Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek. ~

Mario Andretti

~ The desire to know is natural to good men. ~

Leonardo da Vinci

~ A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving. ~

Ayn Rand

~ Desire is a powerful force that can be used to make things happen.” ~

Marcia Wieder

~ 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. ~

Bhagavad Gita

~ The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist. ~

Rabindranath Tagore

~ Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfilment of animal desires. ~

Alexander Graham Bell

~ The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be. ~

Ayn Rand

~ How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire! ~

Belva Plain

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