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“If we desire to do what will please God, and what will help men, we presently find ourselves taken out of our narrow habits of thought and action; we find new elements of our nature called into activity; we are no longer running along a narrow track of selfish habit.”

Ifs Men Helping Running Action Desire Taken Habit Please Activity Elements Track Selfish Selfishness Help Me Thoughts And Actions

Book:Self-culture, lectures

Source: Self-culture, lectures

“The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.”

Real Desire Grows Issues Talent Design Elements Independent Persistence Characteristics Modest Graphic Artist Graphic Designer Creative Design

Author:Milton Glaser

“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

“[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it”

Doe Soul Desire Principles Elements Seats Appetite Obedient Amenable

Book:The Nicomachean ethics

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the soul which control action and the attainment of truth: namely, Sensation, Intellect, and Desire. Of these, Sensation never originates action, as is shown by the fact that animals have sensation but are not capable of action.”

Soul Facts Action Desire Three Animal Virtue Special Elements Capable Function Intellect Related Faculty Sensations Attainment

Book:The Nicomachean ethics

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“I think when you embrace celibacy other elements of the relationship have to come forth. There isn't an opportunity for you to be blinded by your sexual desires there is an opportunity to see things more clearly.”

Thinking Desire Opportunity Elements Embrace Blinded Celibacy Sexual Desire

Author:Edwina Findley

“Racism is a destructive and artificially-manufactured element in the collective human psyche designed to fragment the natural desire of human beings to know and love one another”

Knows Humans Desire Natural Human Beings Elements Racism And Love Destructive Collectives Fragments Love One Another Human Psyche

Author:Jane Urquhart

“I guess I think that sex and desire and humiliation are central to my experience of consciousness - to my experience of humanness - and I wanted to explore the ways that they circle around and approach and fail to add up to love, or the ways that those three terms - sex, desire, love - can in some lights seem synonymous and in others like elements entirely alien to one another.”

Thinking Way Light Seems Wanted Desire Three Sex Term Consciousness Failing Elements Approach Add Circles Aliens Humiliation Humanness Desire Love

Author:Garth Greenwell

“Fire and Water are archetypes, the split sides of consciousness; one aware, the other, not. The two parts of us that desire synthesis, yet resist it: the self and the shadow. But they are also the element of chance, of the random roll of dice.”

Two Self Desire Sides Water Chance Consciousness Fire Elements Shadow Splits Dice Archetype Synthesis

Author:Chris Abani

“I enjoy Chicago as one of the great American cities. When I come here and take a taxi from the airport, I meet a young man from Somalia. I meet a young man from Eritrea who engages with this nation with a sense of hope and a sense of desire. But we also we know that there are other elements of this nation that are toxic.”

Knows Men Young Desire Nations Enjoy Cities Elements Young Man Chicago Toxic Airports Taxi Great American American Cities Somalia Eritrea

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.”

Facts Desire Theory Elements Argument Property Communist

Book:Social Statics: Great Essays

Source: Social Statics: Great Essays

“A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status - all these in one event. I myself see the car crash as a tremendous sexual event really: a liberation of human and machine libido (if there is such a thing).”

Ifs Humans Desire Car Events Drama Elements Machines Speed Factors Consumers Liberation Goods Aggression Crash Harness Car Crash Libido

Author:J. G. Ballard

“Clearly, all fear has an element of resistance and a leaning away from the moment. Its dynamic is not unlike that of strong desire except that fear leans backward into the last safe moment while desire leans forward toward the next possibility of satisfaction. Each lacks presence. (29)”

Moments Lasts Desire Next Strong Fear Possibility Safe Elements Satisfaction Resistance Strong Desire

Book:A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last

Source: A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last