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“Guileless and without vanity, we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness. Jealousy we understood and thought natural--a desire to have what somebody else had; but envy was a strange, new feeling for us.”

Stills Feelings Desire Felt Natural Strange Comfortable News Understood Skins Envy Senses Vanity Enjoyed Scar Dirt Intriguing Still In Love New Feelings

Author:Jim Morrison

“I enjoyed acting growing up; I did musical theater. I had a secret desire to be a television and movie actress, but it wasn't something I admitted to myself that I wanted to do, I guess.”

Wanted Desire Acting Secret Growing Up Growing Television Theater Musical Actresses Enjoyed Musical Theater Secret Desire

Author:Amanda Schull

“Women believe -- or at least often pretend to believe -- that all our tenderness for them springs from desire; that we love them when we have not for a time enjoyed them, and dismiss them when we are sated, or to express it more precisely, exhausted. There is no truth in this idea, though it may be made to appear true. When we are rigid with desire, we are apt to pretend a great tenderness in the hope of satisfying that desire; but at no other time are we in fact so liable to treat women brutally, and so unlikely to feel any deep emotion but one.”

Source: Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'

“Is it not clear that to give to such women as desire it and can devote themselves to literary and scientific pursuits all the advantages enjoyed by men of the same class will lessen essentially the number of thoughtless, idle, vain and frivolous women and thus secure the [sic] society the services of those who now hang as dead weight?”

Men Giving Desire Numbers Class Clear Advantage Weight Pursuit Secure Enjoyed Vain Idle Frivolous

Book:The Feminist Thought of Sarah Grimké

Source: The Feminist Thought of Sarah Grimké

“Plunge into the world, and then, after a time, when you have suffered and enjoyed all that is in it, will renunciation come; then will calmness come. So fulfill your desire for power and everything else, and after you have fulfilled the desire, will come the time when you will know that they are all very little things; but until you have fulfilled this desire, until you have passed through that activity, it is impossible for you to come to the state of calmness, serenity, and self-surrender.”

Knows World Littles Self States Desire Impossible Activity Surrender Enjoyed Little Things Serenity Fulfilled Calmness Plunge Renunciation Desire For Power

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda