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"Desire looks clear from the eyes of a lovely bride: power as strong as the founded world"
Sophocles
"Always desire to learn something useful."
"Land of Heart's Desire, Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song."
William Butler Yeats
"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring."
Carl Sandburg
"When desire dies, fear is born."
Baltasar Gracián
"Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it."
Wayne Dyer
"Thirst is harder to bear than hunger, heat, or cold.”
Louisa May Alcott
He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book.
John Donne
Yet he who reigns within himself, and rules Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king.
John Milton
And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Real are the dreams of gods, and soothly pass their pleasures in a long immortal dream.
John Keats
“’Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.”
Lord Byron
I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines.
Daniel Craig
“Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.”
Socrates
“From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.”
“Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn’t desire is the hardest thing in the world.”
Albert Camus
“My will is mine...I shall not make it soft for you.”
Aeschylus
Turn your desire to stone. Quench your appetites. Keep your mind centered on itself.
Marcus Aurelius
“We make Him too small in our eyes and expect much less than He desires to give.”
Joyce Meyer
I sincerely desire to be appointed Commander in Chief of the air fleet to attack Pearl Harbor so that I may personally command that attack force.
Isoroku Yamamoto
“Accept the children the way we accept trees—with gratitude, because they are a blessing—but do not have expectations or desires. You don’t expect trees to change, you love them as they are.”
Isabel Allende
“Allow yourself to think only those thoughts that match your principles and can bear the bright light of day. Day by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become. Your integrity determines your destiny.”
Heraclitus
“The thought of only being a creature of the present and past was troubling. I longed for a future too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.”
Frederick Douglass