#desire

Have the courage of your desire. ↗

— George Gissing

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To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it. ↗

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

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But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking. ↗

— Mike Figgis

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If you desire many things, many things will seem few. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there. ↗

— Marcus Garvey

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A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

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All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness. ↗

— William Law

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Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like. ↗

— William Law

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