Adelia Prado Quotes, Feelings Quotes, Desire Quotes

I have no desire to dress up my poetry and make it fancy. I want the poem to be as true as humanly possible to the feeling that inspired it. That's my only concern. Everything else seems wrong.

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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

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I have spent my life resisting the desire to end it.

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Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Desire Quotes , Ends Quotes

Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect.

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It (Tao) is eternally without desire. So, it can be called small. All things return to it, although it does not make itself their ruler. So, it can be called great.

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Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.

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They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.

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Without hope we live in desire.

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To understand the limitation of things, desire them.

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There is no greater sin than desire, No greater curse than discontent, No greater misfortune than wanting something for oneself. Therefore he who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

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life is long between the desire and the spasm.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Long Quotes , Desire Quotes

I am, I am not, I will be, I will not be are vein thoughts which is a sickness and once all are eliminated no desire arises.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Desire Quotes , Veins Quotes

Behind my non-cooperation there is always the keenest desire to cooperate on the slightest pretext even with the worst of opponents. To me, a very imperfect mortal, ever in need of God's grace, no one is beyond redemption.

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He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire.

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If there are sound reasons or bases for the points you demand, then there is no need for violence. On the other hand, when there is no sound reason that concessions should be made to you but mainly your own desire, then reason cannot work and you have to rely on force. Thus using force is not a sign of strength but rather a sign of weakness.

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Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.

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That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire; / Before you know what is left to be desired; / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind.

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REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.

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No one can desire the love of God without first knowing human love.

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Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired.

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