We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us; and the more we gain, the more is our desire. The more we see, the more we are capable of seeing. Great short quote and quotation by: Maria Mitchell ,
What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to grief, or the one who likes becomes powerful. Love? it is deceived, fleeting, or guilty. Fame? You share it with mediocrity or crime. Fortune? Could that frivolity be counted a blessing? All that […]
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What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire. Great short quote and quotation by: Ovid, Amorum, Book 2, 19, 3 , Roman poet (43 BC – 17 AD)
Stanley Kunitz, O Magazine, September 2003
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire. Great short quote and quotation by: Stanley Kunitz, O Magazine, September 2003 ,
What you have when everyone wears the same playclothes for all occasions, is addressad by nickname, expected to participate in Show And Tell, and bullied out of any desire form privacy, is not democracy; it is kindergarten. Great short quote and quotation by: Judith Martin, (Miss Manners) ,
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Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus.
When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . . Great short quote and quotation by: Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus. , Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC – 399 BC)
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Nicole Kidman, in The Scotsman
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness. Great short quote and quotation by: Nicole Kidman, in The Scotsman ,
Where desire writhed there stands a stone; the change was sudden and complete. Great short quote and quotation by: Maggie Roche ,
Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making. Great short quote and quotation by: John Milton , English poet (1608 – 1674)
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You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering. Great short quote and quotation by: Henri-Fr?d?ric Amiel ,
You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself. Great short quote and quotation by: John Ruskin , English critic, essayist, & reformer (1819 – 1900)
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Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out. Great short quote and quotation by: Michael Korda ,
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