#desire

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To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.


Federico García Lorca


#punishment #unrequited-love #love

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.


Dan Brown


#fear #human-nature #men

All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.


Spiro T. Agnew


#along #avenues #clear #desire #encouraged

You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.


James Lane Allen


#become #cannot #controlling #desire #dominant

Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.


Saint Teresa of Avila


#care #comforts #defect #desires #finds

The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God.


Charles Bent


#desire #end #full #get #god

What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win.


Patty Berg


#concentration #dedication #desire #determination #does

Become the leader of your life. Lead yourself to where you want to be. Breathe life back into your ambitions, your desires, your goals, your relationships.


Steve Maraboli


#breathe #desires #goals #inspirational #leader

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.


Andre Breton


#booty #desire #industry #less #nothing

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.


Elizabeth Barrett Browning


#enough #faith #then #you