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

Gaston Bachelard

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

Robert Collier

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

Michel de Montaigne

~ A shot glass of desire is greater than a pitcher of talent. ~

Andy Munthe

~ Desire creates the power. ~

Raymond Hollingwell

~ Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall. ~

Salman Rushdie

~ All that spirits desire, spirits attain. ~

Kahlil Gibran

~ Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. ~

Robert Frost

~ Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment. ~

John Dewey

~ Energy is equal to desire and purpose. ~

Sheryl Adams

~ Avoid fragmentation: Find your focus and seek simplicity. Purposeful living calls for elegant efficiency and economy of effort—expanding the minimum time and energy necessary to achieve desired goals. ~

Dan Millman

~ Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers. ~

Henri Frederic Amiel

~ The human race divides itself politically into those who want to be controlled, and those who have no such desire ~

Robert A. Heinlein

~ For me and for thousands with similar inclinations, the most important passion of life is the overpowering desire to escape periodically from the clutches of a mechanistic civilization. To us the enjoyment of solitude, complete independence, and the beauty of undefined panoramas is absolutely essential to happiness. ~

Bob Marshall

~ There is growing awareness of the beauty of country ... a sincere desire to keep some of it for all time. People are beginning to value highly the fact that a river runs unimpeded for a distance... They are beginning to obtain deep satisfaction from the fact that a herd of elk may be observed in back country, on ancestral ranges, where the Indians once hunted them. They are beginning to seek the healing relaxation that is possible in wild country. In short, they want it. ~

Olaus J. Murie

~ It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny. ~

Eric Hoffer

~ But by providing the background picture - the universal situational awareness that we desire - by showing the anomalies, the Space-Based Radar will change the nature of how we do our analysis and our intelligence. ~

Stephen Cambone

~ This awareness instills a fierce desire to protect that heritage and - in doing so - to educate Americans in the meaning and importance of our pivotal documents. ~

Allen Weinstein

~ The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form. ~

Chauncey Wright

~ You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration. ~

James Lane Allen

~ You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration. ~

James Allen

~ You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration ~

James Allen

~ Just as you have the instinctive natural desire to be happy and overcome suffering, so do all sentient beings; just as you have the right to fulfill this innate aspiration, so do all sentient beings. So on what exact grounds do you discriminate? ~

Dalai Lama

~ Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old. ~

Jonathan Swift

~ He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart, he put other different desires. ~

Sitting Bull

~ I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink. ~

Klaus Kinski

~ Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He also, in a way, gave me permission to write about northern Montana. ~

James Welch

~ Not necessity, not desire /no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything /health, food, a place to live, entertainment /they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied. ~

Friedrich Nietzsche

~ If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world ~

C.S. Lewis

~ If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world ~

C.S. Lewis

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