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“I desire now to make no more pleas with Christ; verily, he hath not put me to a loss by what I suffer; he oweth me nothing; for in my bonds, how sweet and comfortable have the thoughts of him been to me, wherein I find a sufficient recompense of reward!.”

Desire Suffering Christ Loss Sweet Comfortable Rewards Sufficient Recompense

Book:Letters

Source: Letters

“The world that seemed so various and new, well, it does contract. One's burning desire to investigate human behavior, and to make, or imply, statements about it, does fall off. And so one does find that early works are full of energy and also full of vulgarity, crudity, and incompetence, and later works are more carefully finished, and in that sense better literary products. But . . . there's often a freshness that is missing in later works--for every gain there's a loss. I think it evens out in that way.”

“The early symptoms of the disease [California Curse], which break out almost on arrival in Hollywood, are a sense of exaggerated self-importance and self-centeredness which naturally alienates all old friends. Next comes a great desire for and belief in the importance of money above all else, a loss of the normal sense of humor and proportion and finally, in extreme cases, the abandonment of all previous standards of moral value.”

“the most deeply moving element in the contemplation of beauty is the element of loss. We desire to hold; but the sunset melts into the night, and the secret of the painting on the wall can never be the secret of the buyer.”

Moving Desire Night Loss Secret Beauty Painting Wall Elements Longing Contemplation Sunset Buyers

Book:Catherine Carter: A Novel

Source: Catherine Carter: A Novel

“Desire for gain and fear of loss burn like fire.”

Desire Fear Loss Fire Gains Greed

Book:The Hero: Myth, Image, Symbol

Source: The Hero: Myth, Image, Symbol

“Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he does not kill himself because of his learning. It is certainly not the learning he acquires that disorganizes religion; but the desire for knowledge wakens because religion becomes disorganized.”

Men Doe Desire Religious Loss Acquire Cohesion Disorganized Desire For Knowledge

Book:Durkheim on Religion: A Selection of Readings with Bibliographies and Introductory Remarks

Source: Durkheim on Religion: A Selection of Readings with Bibliographies and Introductory Remarks

“It's certainly a loss for us here at the University of Washington, because Jeff Compher has been a wonderful friend and administrator. Jeff is a football man first, but he has the compassion and desire to make all of Northern Illinois' programs successful. He's one heck of a guy.”

Men Firsts Has Beens Desire Guy Loss Compassion Successful Wonderful Football Program University Administrators Illinois Wonderful Friends

Author:Tyrone Willingham

“Philip Galanes makes his debut with a novel that is both heartbreaking and deftly comic, the story of a young man struggling with his most primitive desires--wanting and needing. It is a novel about the complex relationships between parents and children, a story of loss and of our unrelenting need for acknowledgment, to be seen as who we are. And in the end it is simply a love story for our time.”

“These ways to make people buy were strange and new to us, and many bought for the sheer pleasure at first of holding in the hand and talking of something new. And once this was done, it was like opium, we could no longer do without this new bauble, and thus, though we hated the foreigners and though we knew they were ruining us, we bought their goods. Thus I learned the art of the foreigners, the art of creating in the human heart restlessness, disquiet, hunger for new things, and these new desires became their best helpers.”

“Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.”

Whole Desire Loss Courage Objects Discipline Ambition Despise Again And Again Weight Loss Have Courage

Book:Horace for English Readers: Being a Translation of the Poems of Quintus Horatius Flaccus Into English Prose

Source: Horace for English Readers: Being a Translation of the Poems of Quintus Horatius Flaccus Into English Prose