“I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.” PeopleSpiritualDesireUnderstandingEmotionalLongingExpertsPriestsAttachmentRabbi Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf
“A continuous perception is taking place deep within the mind. It is hard to hear that signal because it is blurred over by your own thoughts, desires, and fears. It is blurred over by your emotional swings. You become dull.” MindHardDesireSeeingEmotionalPerceptionDullSwingsSignalsDeep Within Author:Frederick Lenz
“The saddest thing in the world was that human beings, for all their ardent striving and desire, could never achieve physical, emotional, or intellectual perfection. The species was doomed to imperfection; it thrashed forever in despair or denial of that fact.” WorldHumansFactsDesireHuman BeingsForeverAchieveEmotionalDespairIntellectualPerfectionSpeciesStriveDenialImperfectionDoomedSaddestArdent Book:Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel Source: Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel
“Medicare, getting through that in the '60s, after Kennedy's assassination, where there was such an emotional desire to do something to carry on his agenda.” DesireEmotionalAgendasMedicareAssassination Author:Chris Matthews
“I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviate myself. To present the CliffNotes of the emotional me, as opposed to the twelve-column read.” KindMeanDesireEmotionalWasteAddictionChemicalsTwelveColumns Author:Carrie Fisher
“The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interests of the desire to know-it involves suppression of hopes and fears, loves and hates, and the whole subjective emotional life, until we become subdued to the material, able to see it frankly, without preconceptions, without bias, without any wish except to see it as it is, and without any belief that what it is must be determined by some relation, positive or negative, to what we should like it to be, or to what we can easily imagine it to be.” KnowsShouldMindWholeAbleDesireHateBeliefWishInterestAttitudeImagineEmotionalMaterialsNegativeRelationDeterminedBiasSubjectiveSweepingLove And HateSuppressionPreconceptionsFear Of LoveHopes And FearsEmotional Life Book:Mysticism and Logic Source: Mysticism and Logic
“In language at once stark and delicate, Suki Kim shatters the polemic of North and South Korea. She couples an investigative reporter's fierce desire to strip away the fiction of the Hermit Kingdom with an immigrant's insatiable hunger for an emotional home, no matter how troubled and no matter how impossible.” MatterHomeDesireLanguageFictionImpossibleEmotionalCoupleSouthHungerKingdomsImmigrantsDelicateFierceReportersKoreaStarksInsatiableKimHermitsSouth KoreaNorth And SouthPolemicsInsatiable Hunger Author:Monique Truong
“Beauty ensnares hearts, captures minds, and stirs up emotional wildfires. From Plato to pinups, images of human beauty have catered to a limitless desire to see and imagine an ideal human form.” MindHumansHeartFormDesireBeautyImagineEmotionalIdealsCapturePlatoLimitlessHuman FormWildfiresPinup Author:Nancy Etcoff