Justice is the loveliest and health is the best. but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire.
When your intention is great enough you will ALWAYS find the time and energy to accomplish your desires. You can state excuses to the contrary, but holding on to your old stories is just another way of wasting precious time.
We have no desire to be the world's policeman. But America does want to be the world's peacemaker.
I was forced, through seeing the error of their foundation, to abandon all belief in every religion which had been taught to man. But my religious feelings were immediately replaced by the spirit of universal charity — not for a sect, or a party, or for a country or a colour — but for the human race, and with a real and ardent desire to do good.
As a corporation, you cannot let the desire for unanimity override your obligation for fairness.
While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.
Happiness is when there is no hunger or want at all, when we're completely free of all hunger, desire, and want.
One of the glories of society is to have created woman where Nature had made only a female; to have created a continuity of desire where Nature thought only of perpetuating the species; and, in fine, to have invented love.
Give recognition where it is due. Compliments stimulate more effort and desire to improve. Be generous with honest praising.
Love remains a relation with the Other that turns into need, transcendent exteriority of the other, of the beloved. But love goes beyond the beloved. . . The possibility of the Other appearing as an object of a need while retaining his alterity, or again,the possibility of enjoying the Other. . . this simultaneity of need and desire, or concupiscence and transcendence,. . . constitutes the originality of the erotic which, in this sense, is the equivocal par excellence.
We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
The really useful education is that which follows the direction of the child's own instinctive interests, supplying knowledge for which it is seeking, not dry, detailed information wholly out of relation to its spontaneous desires.
All over the world today people have a very strong desire to find a sense of identity, and at the same time that's coupled with the rise of absolutely absurd wars that relate to ethnic identity. Perhaps there is something deeply ingrained in people that relates to a sense of belonging, and without that, identity doesn't seem as real as it should.
It seems to me that the desire to make art produces an ongoing experience of longing, a restlessness sometimes, but not inevitably, played out romantically, or sexually. Always there seems something ahead, the next poem or story, visible, at least, apprehensible, but unreachable. To perceive it at all is to be haunted by it; some sound, some tone, becomes a torment — the poem embodying that sound seems to exist somewhere already finished. It’s like a lighthouse, except that, as one swims towards it, it backs away.
Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.
No one can desire the love of God without first knowing human love.
Be a function of your values rather than a function of the impulse or desire of any given moment.
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
It's never been my desire to conquer you, Amelia. If you leave this room with me, it must be at my side. As my wife, my lover, my partner. . . ” His thumb brushed her lip. “My dearest friend.
Purity is innocence, the innocence of lack of self. Desire is innocent unless it's connected with self.