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Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

Quote by Bertrand Russell about love, solitude, sex, man

Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to...

Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.

Quote by Kevin Michael Costner about failure, contentment

If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it. "

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about opinion, mother, contentment, human imperfections, being

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Quote by Robert Frost about love

A fine world in which man reproaches woman with...

A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!

Quote by Karl Kraus about love, woman, heart, world, man

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and...

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.

Quote by Giacomo Leopardi about death, man

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

Quote by Giacomo Leopardi about olderness, age, old, sadness, man, fear, death

Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever...

Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase.

JQuote by John Balguy about contentment, happiness

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep

Quote by Walter Scott about success, mind

To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

Quote by Edgar Lee Masters about life, longing, end

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the...

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

Quote by Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi about work, heart

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

Quote by Khalil Gibran about opinion

There are those who have a desire to love, but do not...

There are those who have a desire to love, but do not have the capacity to love.

Quote by Giovanni Papini about love

True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no...

True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.

Quote by Emanuel Swedenborg about opinion, charity, thinking

The angel of the Family is Woman. Mother, wife, or sister, Woman is the caress of life, the soothing sweetness of affection shed over its toils, a reflection for the individual of the loving providence which watches over Humanity. In her there is...

Quote by Giuseppe Mazzini about woman, kiss, faith, family, children, future, mother, affection, treasure, symbol

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the...

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

Quote by Jiddu Krishnamurti about liberty, essential

Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

Quote by Gaston Bachelard about people, creation, need, man

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

Quote by Baruch Spinoza about ambition, power

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a...

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

Quote by Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord about life, contentment

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my...

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Quote by John Stuart Mill about wish, happiness

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