#desire

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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MAY it please your Honors: I was desired by one of the court to look into the books, and consider the question now before them concerning Writs of Assistance. ↗

— James Otis

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To manifest your hearts desires you must BE what your heart desires. ↗

— Joy Page

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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. ↗

— Joy Page

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Desire of having is the sin of covetousness. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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I had a desire to prove to myself that I was actually in control - that I wasn't a puppet. ↗

— Sean Parker

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I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn't want them either, so it worked out well. ↗

— Dolly Parton

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Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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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 most. ↗

— Walter Pater

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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. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

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