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“My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum.”

Desire Stage Goes On Offers Intention Despise Vague Vocation Lectures

Author:Mary MacLane

“You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.”

Looks Problem Past Desire Church Memories Building Goes On Weight Urgent Crushed Past Memories Building Something

Author:Pope Francis

“That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire; / Before you know what is left to be desired; / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind.”

Knows Feels Moments Desire Lost Left Wish Behinds Worst Goes On Desirable Left Behind Worst Moments

Author:T. S. Eliot

“Ambition is the desire to go forward and improve one's condition. It is a burning flame that lights up the life of the individual and makes him see himself in another state. To be ambitious is to be great in mind and soul. To want that which is worth while and strive for it. To go on without looking back, reaching to that which gives satisfaction.”

Want Giving Mind Soul States Light Desire Individual Conditions Goes On Ambition Strive Satisfaction Burning Flames Reaching Ambitious Looking Back Light Up

Book:Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

Source: Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

“You maintain hope for humanity as an infinite skeptic of gossip and slander. In all mankind's desires for entertainment and exaggeration and sensationalism, when it comes to gossip, the individual always sounds worse than he really is. This is why adhering to gossip subtly affects the mental state of the listener - he goes on holding shady opinions regardless of where the realities of their lights and darknesses may stand.”

Source: Killosophy

“Our whole life can go on in observation of the laws of nature, if we gain dominion over our desires from the beginning and if we do not kill, by various means of a perverse art, the human offspring, born according to the designs of divine providence; for these women who, in order to hide their immorality, use abortive drugs which expel the child completely dead, abort at the same time their own human feelings.”

“One starts gambling for a joke, out of curiosity, as a little challenge to fortune. One goes on, pricked to the quick by delusions, excited by vague desires that grow. Woe to you if you win anything - an AMBO, a small TERNO! It is all up with you, for your chance of winning seems certain. ... It is the devil's money going back to hell.”

Source: The Land of Cockayne (Matilde Serao) (Literary Thoughts Edition)

“If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired for the sake of this), and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else (for at that rate the process would go on to infinity, so that our desire would be empty and vain), clearly this must be the good and the chief good.”

Ifs Ends Would Be Desire Process Goes On Empty Rate Sake Chiefs Vain Infinity If Then

Book:Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

“But I must never forget how blessed I have been. God has given me gifts and happiness, beyond any of my simple desires. My deepest desire now is to simply live... So with hope and determination, I'd hold on and go on.”

Has Beens Desire Given Simple Forget Goes On Determination Blessed Never Forget

Author:Farrah Fawcett

“Yet is our deepest desire is truly to live and go on living, why do we blindly insist that death is the end? Why not at least try and explore the possibility that there may be a life after?”

Trying May Ends Desire Possibility Goes On Why Not

Book:The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition

Source: The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition

“I might take from the current political chaos a desire to somehow reflect its essential qualities in a story - the blatant lies that get accepted with repetition; the way mass media seems to be agitating people en masse; the way, particularly, that a relatively lucky and affluent and privileged population can be undone by a certain spoiled quality; that feeling when two decent people violently disagree, because they are arguing from two non-intersecting data sets - well, the list goes on.”

“If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.”

Ifs Littles Desire Energy Brain Practice Goes On Pure Argument Useless Firm Discussion Devotional

Book:Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120

Source: Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120

“I know a lot of people with obsessive qualities, and there's a positive and negative part to it. There's the appeal of someone who's so deadly focused on something that they want or desire - there's a dedication and a single-mindedness that's great. But then if it goes on too long it becomes a psychosis. What's the French term for it? Idee fixe.”

People Ifs Knows Want Long Desire Term Quality Goes On Negative Focused Appeals Dedication Obsessive Psychosis Single Mindedness

Author:Callum Keith Rennie

“Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.”

Mind Humans Desire Culture Natural Moral Christianity Greater Progress Goes On Bible Shining Depth Human Mind Advancing Elevation Natural Science

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe