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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost
Love
Love Is
Irresistible
Desire
Desired
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo
I Can
More
Always
Lord
Accomplish
Than
May
Grant
Desire
Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.
Confucius
You
Yourself
Others
Impose
Desire
One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.
George Allen, Sr.
Life
Hope
You
Matter
Achieve
Whatever
Fighting
Difficult
Everyone
Adjusting
Must
Entire
Entire Life
Most
Learn
Survive
To Survive
Your
Who
Keep
Things
Desire
Difficult Things
Position
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
Thomas Aquinas
Man
Three
Believe
Ought
He
Know
Salvation
Things
Necessary
Desire
The discipline of desire is the background of character.
John Locke
Character
Discipline
Background
Desire
We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us the truth about anything, serving their corporate masters who have other plans to dominate us.
Gore Vidal
Truth
Other
Corporate
States
Tell
No Desire
About
Masters
Encouraged
Dominate
Anything
Which
Us
Plans
Who
Media
United
Amnesia
United States
Serving
Desire
The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.
Andrew Jackson
Love
Great
Rights
People
Liberty
Mechanic
Men
Country
Nothing
Bone
States
Laws
Equal
Equal Rights
Laborer
Form
Body
Farmer
Planter
Who
United
United States
Desire
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Inspirational
Love
Great
Spirit
Wings
Deeds
Desire
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
George Washington
War
Peace
Prosperity
Our
Secure
Secure Peace
Must
Able
Rising
Powerful
Most
Most Powerful
Instruments
Known
Insult
Ready
Repel
Times
Avoid
Desire
A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.
Jonathan Swift
Lie
Words
Consist
Neighbour
Indirect
Does
False
Deceive
Intention
Your
Speaking
Injure
Desire
Position
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Napoleon Hill
Hope
Achievement
Wish
Pulsating
Everything
Point
Transcends
Which
Keen
Desire
Starting
Starting Point
Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.
Coco Chanel
Truth
Instinctive
Arouse
Times
Authenticity
Hard
Hard Times
Desire
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
Love
Health
Food
Entertainment
Unhappy
Will
Men
Power
Live
Satisfied
Everything
Remain
Demon
Waits
Place
Them
Necessity
Desire
True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.
Emanuel Swedenborg
Charity
Thought
Others
Recompense
True
Useful
Desire
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Mark Victor Hansen
Good
You
Be Happy
Peace
Happy
Yourself
Mind
Peace Of Mind
Give
Delight
Dedicate
Deserve
Desire
Wonder is the desire for knowledge.
Thomas Aquinas
Knowledge
Wonder
Desire
Boredom: the desire for desires.
Leo Tolstoy
Boredom
Desire
Desires
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality.
Richard Courant
Mathematics
Construction
Mind
Will
Active
Analysis
Logic
Intuition
Generality
Perfection
Individuality
Contemplative
Aesthetic
Reflects
Human
Human Mind
Reason
Expression
Elements
Basic
Basic Elements
Desire
The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power.
Henry A. Wallace
Fears
Power
Thinking
Symptoms
Everywhere
Immediate
Circumstances
Colored
Environment
Identified
Always
Different
Order
Gain
Prejudice
Appeal
Fascist
Groups
Play
Desire
Adapted
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
Knowledge
Quality
Win
Possess
Must
Purpose
Wants
Burning
Burning Desire
Which
Desire
The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
Brian Tracy
Success
Key
Fear
Mind
Focus
Key To Success
Our
Success Is
Conscious
Things
Conscious Mind
Desire
What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.
Charlie Chaplin
Life
You
Life Is A
Want
Meaning
Desire
Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.
Thomas Merton
Loneliness
You
Vision
Obscurity
Beyond
Without
Motion
Limits
Discover
Labor
Begin
Repose
Infinity
Act
Fulfillment
Activities
Whose
Deepest
Extend
Profound
Here
Desire
I think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.
Abraham Lincoln
Think
States
Further
Object
Morally
Wrong
Terminate
Spread
Gradually
Politically
Should
Union
Whole
United
United States
Socially
Desire
Slavery
Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward Heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.
Walter Gropius
Future
Faith
Day
Together
Architecture
Will
Painting
Unity
One Day
Embrace
Rise
Structure
Toward
Conceive
New
Like
Crystal
Hands
Heaven
Which
Us
Create
Workers
Sculpture
Let Us
Million
Symbol
Desire
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