“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.” IfsPersonsDesireReadingChangedPleaseMotivated Book:On Desire: Why We Want what We Want Source: On Desire: Why We Want what We Want
“My chief time for reading is at night while brushing my hair before I go to bed, and as you may suppose, but little profit and pleasure can be derived from such mere sips at the well of knowledge. 'Tis a great privation to me, for my desire for information increases instead of diminishing, and I look forward with great anxiety to the time when I can improve my poor neglected mind and learn some of the few exhaustless store of things which I wish to know.” KnowsMindWellsLooksMayLittlesI CanDesireNightReadingWishPleasurePoorInformationHairBedAnxietyIncreaseMereProfitStoresChiefsNeglectedBrushing Book:Fanny, the American Kemble: her journals and unpublished letters Source: Fanny, the American Kemble: her journals and unpublished letters
“Blessed is he who invented recording! But what a pity that he was not born centuries earlier! Think only of all that we would be able to hear and therefore understand better. Oh, the unending research in libraries and museums, the readings and collations of texts, the maddening desire to know the truth!” ThinkingKnowsWould BeAbleDesireReadingBornMusicCenturyResearchBlessedLibraryPityMuseumsUnending Author:Wanda Landowska
“Perhaps the most remarkable thing I found about the Bible was how flexible it is. Here we have a book written 3,000 years ago, with bizarre stories, peculiar laws, erratic deity, and yet we are able - through argument, selective reading, and desire - to find a powerful framework of laws and moral reasoning that have built a very successful society. So this Bible, for all its oddities and flaws, serves us beautifully after all these years.” YearsBookStoriesAbleLawDesireReadingFoundPowerfulMoralSuccessfulWrittenBuiltYears AgoArgumentReasoningRemarkableFlawsPeculiarBizarreFlexibleDeitiesFrameworkSelectiveErraticOdditiesMoral Reasoning Author:David Plotz
“My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me feel was notthe desire to imitate, but the conviction that imitation was futile.” FeelsFirstsMadeDesireReadingHeavenJudgmentConvictionRevelationsAffectedImitationTrumpets Author:Ellen Glasgow