"Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion."
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"Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love."
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"God authors desires in your heart, then fulfills His Will by enabling you to realize those desires."
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"Love enjoys knowing everything about you; desire needs mystery."
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"The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire."
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"What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty?"
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"As you commit your life to follow the Lord, He begins to plant His desires in your heart, then guides you according to His plan"
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"There are no limitations set by this electric universe upon any man's multiplication power. Each man sets his own limitations in accordance with his desires. He be a thin wire which gathers little energy and carries a weak current, or he may be a heavy one. That is true of all energy borrowed from the universe by all of us. It is there in unlimited quantities, but the gauge of the kind of wire each of us is set by ourselves."
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"There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere."
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"I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness."
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"I have desired to do good, but I have not desired to make noise, because I have felt that noise did no good and that good made no noise."
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"All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace."
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"Poor is the man who desires a lot"
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"I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works."
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"A great deal; you are good to those who are good to you. It is all I ever desire to be. If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way; they would never feel afraid, and so they would never alter, but would grow worse and worse. When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again."
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"Nothing is impossible to the person who backs DESIRE with enduring FAITH."
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"A "Bay Area Bisexual" told me I didn't quite coincide with either of her desires."
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"You are made in the image of what you desire."
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"A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking."
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"Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service."
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