#desire

I had a great time in my youth and I still feel youthful. I've no desire to look as though I'm in my 20s. ↗

— Kim Cattrall

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Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement. ↗

— Willa Cather

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Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform. ↗

— Chanakya

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Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity. ↗

— Coco Chanel

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We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be. ↗

— Henry Fielding

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Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives. ↗

— Sarah Fielding

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When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling. ↗

— Thomas Clarkson

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I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires. ↗

— John Cleese

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