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“Our visions begin with our desires.”
Audre Lorde
“Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.”
Ayn Rand
“Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment”
Marsha Sinetar
“When you love people and have the desire to make a profound, positive impactupon the world, then will you have accomplished the meaning to live.”
Sasha Azevedo
“The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.”
Carl Sandburg
“The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.”
Saint Augustine
“I want to have fun. I want to shine like the sun. I want to be the one that you want to see. I want to knit you a sweater. I want to write you a love letter. I want to make you feel better. I want to make you feel free.”
Joni Mitchell
“Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed.”
Bertrand Russell
“When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.”
W. Clement Stone
“There is a desire deep within the soul which drives man from the seen to the unseen, to philosophy and to the divine”
Kahlil Gibran
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