#desire

A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him. ↗

— Nathaniel Branden

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The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding. ↗

— Margaret Sanger

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Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy. ↗

— Swami Sivananda

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My desire is to let go of my ego and let in His direction. ↗

— Janine Turner

#direction #ego #go #his #let go

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#conscious mind #desire #fear #focus #key

I reached for her, pushing back the fall of hair-it was heavy and thick and smooth to the touch-and tilted her chin so that the moonlight shone on her wet face. We married each other that night, there on a bed of fallen pine needles-even today, the scent of pitch-pine stirs me-with Henry's distant flute for a wedding march and the arching white birch boughs for our basilica. At first, she quivered like an aspen, and I was ashamed at my lack of continence, yet I could not let go of her. I felt like Peleus on the beach, clinging to Thetis, only to find that, suddenly, it was she who held me; that same furnace in her nature that had flared up in anger blazed again, in passion. ↗

— Geraldine Brooks

#love #anger

[T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop them and the radiance comes. (16) ↗

— Joseph Campbell

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I spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other day, until the desire to describe them became like the desire for the lusts of the flesh. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#desire #art

Peeta actually is charming and then utterly winning as the boy in love. And there I am, blushing and confused, made beautiful by Cinna’s hands, desirable by Peeta’s confession, tragic by circumstance, and by all accounts, unforgettable. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#desire #hunger-games #love #beauty

Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us. ↗

— Donald Miller

#life