If you take a lie and allow your desire for the truth, you'll end up with some truth - not fact, but something that gets you closer to the truth. That's what we want. When we go to a play, we need to be assured that the experience we're having.
It is the natural desire of each nation to use the other as an instrument of its own purposes and policies. By dint of our mutual dependence, your influence is amplified by our power. Our power is made more responsible and more effective by your influence.
What are you going to do? Are you going to keep looking backwards, full of anger, resentment and unfulfilled desire. Or are you going to be here now. Because everything is available for you in the here and now. Love, compassion, silence, bliss and Oneness.
Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
let's get away from all the clever humans who put words in our mouth let's only say what our hearts desire.
Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.
If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired for the sake of this), and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else (for at that rate the process would go on to infinity, so that our desire would be empty and vain), clearly this must be the good and the chief good.
Words have a love for each other, a desire that culminates in poetry.
The worst reason to do magic is the desire to display your superiority to your fellow humans.
It's the desire to study the human condition, the desire for collaboration, to learn and absorb, and to lead a well-examined life.
I'm not a gangster, I don't have no desire to be hard.
Your man with a thin skin, a vehement ambition, a scrupulous conscience, and a sanguine desire for rapid improvement is never a happy, and seldom a fortunate politician.
Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience. . . The desire to escape or camouflage their unsatisfactory selves develops in the frustrated a facility for pretending -- for making a show -- and also a readiness to identify themselves wholly with an imposing spectacle.
Without hope we live in desire.
I read Aschenbach's constant desire to go beyond the works he has already produced to be the counterpart of Mann's deep wish to surpass his previous fiction; sometimes the diaries express this in terms of a dejected judgment that the summit has already been reached.
Gratitude causes us to no longer desire a different life. Instead, it causes us to make the most of the one life we already have.
Evolution leads the way through desire.
We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire-based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need.
Our desires, be they spiritual or temporal, should be rooted in a love of the Lord.
I have no desire to maintain a lifestyle. I am a horrible celebrity. If I am out in public I dress like a pig.
