"Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had."
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"Desire something and don't just care what you have to go through to get it."
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"The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for."
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"To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality."
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"Becoming a producer enables you to empower yourself, to make the film that you want to make. I have desires to make movies - I have movies I'm developing, and things that I'm interested in."
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"You can become a great creator or a little one as the intensity of your desire is little or great."
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"The willingness to listen and act on your inspiration is imperative if you're going to live the life you desire."
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"In other searchings it might be the object of the quest that brought satisfaction, or it might be something incidental that one got on the way; but in religion, desire was fulfilment, it was the seeking itself that rewarded."
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"What is it men in women do require: The lineaments of gratified desire. What is it women do in men require: The lineaments of gratified desire."
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"The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained."
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"It has frequently been said that we never desire what we think absolutely inapprehensible: it is however true that some of our sharpest agonies are those in which the object of desire is regarded as both possible and imaginary."
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"If I want only pure water, what does it matter to me whether it be brought in a vase of gold or of glass? What is it to me whether the will of God be presented to me in tribulation or consolation, since I desire and seek only the Divine will?"
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"If we have strong desire then God miraculously removes obstacles and gives us the power to overcome them."
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"I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire."
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"To converse with You, O King of glory, no third person is needed, You are always ready in the Sacrament of the Altar to give audience to all. All who desire You always find You there, and converse with You face to face"
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"Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire."
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"Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy."
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"All envy is proportionate to desire."
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"Faith does not quench desire, but inflames it."
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"I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you."
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