Anton Chekhov Quotes, Wish Quotes, Desire Quotes

Formerly, when I would feel a desire to understand someone, or myself, I would take into consideration not actions, in which everything is relative, but wishes. Tell me what you want and I'll tell you who you are.

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If desires are not uprooted, sorrows grow again in you.

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Wonder implies the desire to learn.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Curiosity Quotes , Desire Quotes

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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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Moving Quotes , Desire Quotes

It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized.

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The superior man does what is proper to the station in which he is; he does not desire to go beyond this.

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I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.

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Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Desire Quotes , World Quotes

So proud she was to die It made us all ashamed That what we cherished, so unknown To her desire seemed. So satisfied to go Where none of us should be, Immediately, that anguish stooped Almost to jealousy.

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Death Quotes , Desire Quotes

There is no greater offence than harbouring desires. There is no greater disaster than discontent. There is no greater misfortune than wanting more.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Desire Quotes

...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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Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Light Quotes , Desire Quotes

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Love Quotes , Desire Quotes

Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Men Quotes , Desire Quotes

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling. And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire.

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Shadow Quotes , Desire Quotes

We grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It's very materialistic. It's full of desire and luxury goods.

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Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Luxury Quotes , Desire Quotes

A slave- holder, who has decided to abolish slavery, does not consult his slaves whether they desire freedom or not.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Freedom Quotes , Desire Quotes

He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

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I have spent my life resisting the desire to end it.

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All desires and egoism will have to be banished from the being.

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Ethics: The indispensable interface between my desire to be happy and yours.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Desire Quotes , Ethics Quotes

Let reason govern desire.

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