Paulo Coelho Quotes, Ideas Quotes, Desire Quotes

Only by accepting our desires can we have an idea of who we are.

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One of the glories of society is to have created woman where Nature had made only a female; to have created a continuity of desire where Nature thought only of perpetuating the species; and, in fine, to have invented love.

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Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.

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...Everything that is, desires to be. As we act, we unfold our being. Enjoyment naturally follows, for a thing desired always brings delight.

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The knowledge which we seek, the answers for which we yearn, and the strength which we desire today to meet the challenges of a complex and changing world can be ours when we willingly obey the Lord’s commandments.

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Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

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Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without "taste," at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cost.

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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.

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The main cause of suffering is egoistic desire for one's own comfort and happiness.

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Upon the whole, therefore, she found what had been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself.

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... the desire for truth must take precedence over all other desires.

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He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire.

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She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

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What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.

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We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

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For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudences of the brawling world reach you no more.

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When you dance, do you feel desire? Do you feel as if you were summoning up a greater energy? When you dance, are there moments when you cease to be yourself?

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And that taught me you can't have anything, you can't have anything at all. Because desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it - but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you've got the inconsequential part, but the glitter that made you want it is gone.

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If you yourself desire establishment, then help others to get establishment; if you yourself want success, then help others to attain success.

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She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.

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