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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of...

Quote by James Joyce about soul, being, good, good luck, love

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Quote by Franz Kafka

It is not difficult to find the truth, it is hard to have desire to find it.

Quote by Nicolae Iorga about truth

Going after the unknown is always fascinating, I think, it becomes part of your life, this desire to know.

Quote by Mark Oliphant about life

People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all.

Quote by Joy Page about people, dark, bad, light, rightness, good, good luck

From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.

Quote by Paracelsus about time, artists, sleep, dream

Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.

Quote by Theodore Parker about sacrifice, eternity, duty, contentment, time

Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.

Quote by Rosa Parks about wish

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about fame, wish

One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has...

Quote by Walter Pater about beauty, literary critic, common sense, sense, wisdom, art, magic, love

The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.

Quote by Papa John Paul II about wealth, sacrifice, need, contentment

Young people are threatened by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.

Quote by Papa John Paul II about work, advertising, use, people

It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in...

Quote by Ivan Pavlov about animals, respect, time

Fourthly, I desire you to look not only upon that which you have lost, but also upon that which he hath left behinde him.

Quote by John Pearson about wish, contentment

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.

Quote by M. Scott Peck about consequences, difficulties, pain

Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself.

Quote by Sonny Perdue about encouragement, teachers, students, art, magic

Let your desires be ruled by reason.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about wish, reason

Duty that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

Quote by Ambrose Bierce about duty

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

Quote by Adam Smith about ambition, real estate, man

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

Quote by Bertrand Russell about liberty, obstacles