"Nothing will be able to hinder us, if we desire and seek God alone, and take pleasure in nothing else."
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"Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed."
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"All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings."
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"Those who tread 'adult' as a term of approval cannot hope to be considered adult themselves. When I became a man I put away childish things, along with the desire to be very grown up."
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"If there is nothing left to desire, there is everything to fear, an unhappy state of happiness."
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"Wonder is the beginning of the desire to know the beautiful and the good."
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"When anything is in the presence of evil, but is not as yet evil, the presence of good arouses the desire of good in that thing; but the presence of evil, which makes a thing evil, takes away the desire and friendship of the good; for that which was once both good and evil has now become evil only, and the good has no friendship with evil."
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"If you live in the [Middle East] area, you see [U.S actions] as part of a continuing drive for dominance, and with it a kind of obduracy, a stubborn opposition to the wishes and desires and aspirations of the people there."
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"Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token"
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"All genuine ideals have one thing in common: they express the desire for something which is not yet accomplished but which is desirable for the purpose of the growth and happiness of the individual."
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"Love is active penetration of the other person, in which my desire to know is stilled by union. In the act of fusion I know you, I know myself, I know everybody - and I "know" nothing."
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"When the desire is born, right away you start counting yourselves a failure, because you've got this desire that hasn't been satisfied. Know that you never get it done! And since you never get it done, it's time to stop being unhappy about what's undone, because most of it is undone! You are an eternal being. Most of it is undone. Instead of taking score about what's been achieved - we want you to start feeling anticipation about what is still to arrive."
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"Take a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long time Identify that desire and use modern technology to take out steps."
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"Every living soul has different talents, different desires, different faculties. Be yourself, for even if you deceive the entire world, you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing."
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"Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words."
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"Deep down, we remain human, very human and have all the desires to love and be loved by one person."
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"Praise the Lord, my soul, who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's. The Lord works righteousness and justice for all the oppressed."
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"I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader."
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"Almost every one has a predominant inclination, to which his other desires and affections submit, and which governs him, though perhaps with some intervals, though the whole course of his life."
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"When we're in touch with our body, we're attuned to our intuition, needs, and desires and will be in the best position to make evolutionary choices for our health and wellbeing."
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