#desire

I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. ↗

— Michelangelo

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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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And trust, yes, which is important, but that is what I aim towards. Now that is difficult for some people, and with that desire to get things as good as possible, I would say that I'm probably regarded as quite prickly to work with. ↗

— Jeremy Irons

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My favorite play in drama school was 'The Bacchae.' It's about a king who literally gets eaten alive by all the women in the play in a kind of orgy - it's related to the word 'bacchanal' - and I loved that idea of animalistic chaos and following our own desires. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

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God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The inequality lies in the way in which His touch, His warnings, and His gifts are received. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

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Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever. ↗

— Arthur Keith

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Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses. ↗

— Arthur Keith

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Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness. ↗

— Nicole Kidman

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Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me. ↗

— Nicole Kidman

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