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“When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed.”

Way Years Long Stories Wanted Mother Desire Black White Changed Pages Hundred Decided Eight Screens Pounds Short Story Black And White Never Change Goats Paragraph Laptops

Author:Tea Obreht

“You are currently experiencing desire; otherwise, you wouldn't be reading these words. Even if you are reading them at the behest of someone else, you are motivated by your desire to please that person. And if you stop reading, you will not do so because you have stopped desiring but because your desires have changed.”

Ifs Persons Desire Reading Changed Please Motivated

Book:On Desire: Why We Want what We Want

Source: On Desire: Why We Want what We Want

“When God works in us, the will, being changed and sweetly breathed upon by the Spirit of God, desires and acts, not from compulsion, but responsively.”

Spirit Desire Changed Compulsion Spirit Of God

Book:Martin Luther on the Bondage of the Will: Written in Answer to the Diatribe of Erasmus on Free-will. First Pub. in the Year of Our Lord 1525

Source: Martin Luther on the Bondage of the Will: Written in Answer to the Diatribe of Erasmus on Free-will. First Pub. in the Year of Our Lord 1525

“Unfortunately, preachers who distort God's Word are all too common today. Sometimes this springs from a sincere desire to soften hard hearts, but hearts aren't changed by compromise.”

Heart Sometimes Hard Today Desire Common Changed Spring Compromise Sincere Preacher

Author:Alistair Begg

“We must pass like smoke or live within the spirit's fire; For we can no more than smoke unto the flame return If our thought has changed to dream, our will unto desire, As smoke we vanish though the fire may burn.”

Ifs May Dream Spirit Desire Fire Fate Changed Return Smoke Flames Our Thoughts

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“The cues that arouse desire are changed by Fashion, but feel like the proddings of Nature.”

Feels Desire Nature Fashion Changed

Author:Mason Cooley