#sire

The best is the enemy of good. ↗

— Voltaire

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If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great. ↗

— John Piper

#hunger #strong

There is only as much space, only as much time, Only as much desire, only as many words, Only as many pages, only as much ink To accept all of us at light-speed Hurrying into the Promised Land Of oblivion that is waiting for us sooner or later. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.' ↗

— Dalai Lama

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My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility. ↗

— Dalai Lama

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Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven. ↗

— Alphonse de Lamartine

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Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

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The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth. ↗

— Irving Langmuir

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Naturally I drew register a little exaggerated, in order to create something new in the sense of a sublime literature that sings of despair only in order to oppress the reader, and make him desire the good as the remedy. ↗

— Comte de Lautreamont

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In every living thing there is the desire for love. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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