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“The desire for the creation to exist - not for a return on investment, not for what it may say about you, but for the love of the thing, the creation, itself. One creates music because we love it enough to make it happen. The reason you would create anything is because you love it enough to see it exist.”
James Rouse
“Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams And our desires”
Wallace Stevens
“Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.”
Henry Fielding
“Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.”
Emanuel Swedenborg
“The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.”
Eileen Caddy
“You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration”
James Allen
“Not necessity, not desire /no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything /health, food, a place to live, entertainment /they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger or more intelligent than a fellow being or fellow scholar easily leads to an excessively egoistic psychological adjustment, which may becom”
Albert Einstein
“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
“Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.”
Epictetus
