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All that I know is that I have desires
'We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.'
Ovid
'I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.'
E.B White
'I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.'
Mark Twain
'The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.'
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
'Joseph Campbell'
Follow your bliss.
'You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.'
James Allen
'Desire is a treasure map. Knowledge is the treasure chest. Wisdom is the jewel. Yet without action they all stay buried. Hope is the pillar that holds up the world.'
Pliny the Elder
'Desire, like the atom, is explosive with creative force.'
Paul Vernon Buser
'Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.'
Bobby Unser
'Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love time is eternity.'
Henry Van Dyke
'O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire.'
Robert Browning
'We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.'
Christian Nevell Bovee
'First deserve then desire.'
Proverb
'There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.'
George Bernard Shaw
'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.'
Lord Byron
'All that spirits desire, spirits attain.'
Kahlil Gibran
'The first principle of success is desire, knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.'
Robert Collier
'All men by nature desire knowledge.'
Aristotle
'You gotta be hungry!'
Les Brown
'Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.'
Robert Frost
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