F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Desire Quotes

I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.

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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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Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.

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The knowledge which we seek, the answers for which we yearn, and the strength which we desire today to meet the challenges of a complex and changing world can be ours when we willingly obey the Lord’s commandments.

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I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.

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You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?

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Whoever desires this world must seek its knowledge, and whoever desires the next must seek its knowledge.

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Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.

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Increasing wealth is attended by care and by the desire of greater increase.

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Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

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"Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all good things will be added unto you." Follow God and you shall have whatever you desire.

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A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.

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For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudences of the brawling world reach you no more.

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Fear begins and ends with the desire to be secure; inward and outward security, with the desire to be certain, to have permanency. The continuity of permanence is sought in every direction, in virtue, in relationship, in action, in experience, in knowledge, in outward and inward things. To find security and be secure is the everlasting cry. It is this insistent demand that breeds fear.

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But I have no desire for fame and power anymore. I crawled out of the swamp and I'm not crawling back in.

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The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.

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Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.

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Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy? Why a little curtain of flesh on the bed of our desire?

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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

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To understand the limitation of things, desire them.

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