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“Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of the peaceful, joyful Self, it's no wonder that we get hooked on thinking that happiness comes from the satisfaction of desires. This is the meaning of the”

Thinking Mind Self Happiness Desire Wonder Gratitude Satisfaction Peaceful Temporary Joyful Gratification Hooked

Author:Joan Z. Borysenko

“That the happiness of man may still remain imperfect, as wants in this place are easily supplied, new wants likewise are easily created; every man, in surveying the shops of London, sees numberless instruments and conveniencies, of which, while he did not know them, he never felt the need; and yet, when use has made them familiar, wonders how life could be supported without them. Thus it comes to pass, that our desires always increase with our possessions; the knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed, impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Adventurer and Idler

“I wish to explore the beauty of everyday environments; in troubled times it is especially important to be aware of beauty and wonder.”

Important Desire Wish Wonder Environment Everyday Troubled Times

Author:Elizabeth Barton

“An artist... must actively caress wonder: for fascination, like the desire to play, can be eradicated by the rigors of living.”

Play Desire Artist Wonder Fascination Caress Rigor

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“I've got evil in me as much as anyone, some desires that scare me. Even if I don't give in to them, just having them scares the living bejesus out of me sometimes. I'm no saint, the way you kid about. But I've always walked the line, walked that goddamned line. It's a mean mother of a line, straight and narrow, sharp as a razor, cuts right into you when you walk it long enough. You're always bleeding on that line, and sometimes you wonder why you don't just step off and walk in the cool grass.”

Ifs Way Giving Mean Long Sometimes Enough Kids Mother Desire Evil Lines Walks Wonder Steps Cutting Saint Grass Scare Bleeding Razors

Book:Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel

Source: Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel

“Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.”

“My desire is that my Lord would give me broader and deeper thoughts, to feed myself with wondering at His love.”

Giving Desire Wonder Lord Give Me Deeper His Love

Book:Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford

Source: Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford

“Wonder is defined by Thomas [Aquinas] in the Summa Theologiae [I-II, Q. 32, a. 8], as the desiderium sciendi, the desire for knowledge, active longing to know.”

Knows Desire Wonder Longing Active Defined Desire For Knowledge

Author:Josef Pieper

“Every desire bears its death in its very gratification. Curiosity languishes under repeated stimulants, and novelties cease to excite and surprise, until at length we cannot wonder even at a miracle.”

Desire Wonder Bears Miracle Surprise Curiosity Cease Length Gratification Novelty Stimulants Languish

Author:Washington Irving

“I wonder how often not the intention but the desire springs up in a doctor's mind: 'Can I let this human being out of the trap of Life?”

Mind Humans Desire Human Beings Wonder Spring Doctors Intention Traps

Author:Phyllis Bottome

“I wonder if those experts who tell us that our sexual appetite is the strongest know what real thirst feels like; I can imagine the desire for water driving someone to commit a crime to which sexual desire could never drive them.”

Ifs Knows Feels I Can Real Desire Water Wonder Imagine Crime Driving Commit Experts Strongest Appetite Thirst Sexual Desire

Author:Dervla Murphy

“I've always had a desire to be provocative and to make people think, but it wouldn't be any challenge for me just to be shocking. That is where it begins for me, not where it stops. And I could be much more shocking. I think I've adopted a sense of subtlety. I don't sit around wondering how I can make myself even stranger to the world. I've simply evolved into the monster I created, and I'm quite happy with it.”

People Thinking World I Can Desire Challenges Wonder Stranger Monsters Shocking Adopted Subtlety Provocative

Author:Marilyn Manson

“The wonder of Independence is that it encourages open minds and the desire to improve.”

Mind Desire Wonder Independence Open Mind

Author:Monty Roberts

“When I look back on the years of excessive self-doubt, I wonder how I was able to make my paintings. In part, I managed to paint because I had a desire, as strong as the desire for food and sex, to push through, to make an image that signified.”

Years Looks Art Self Able Desire Strong Sex Wonder Doubt Painting Paint Self-doubt

Author:Miriam Schapiro