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Desirability Quotes

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil. Sivananda
...Desire, a function central to all human experience, is the desire for nothing nameable. And at the same time this desire lies at the origin of every variety of animation. If being were only what it is, there wouldn’t even be room to talk about it. Being comes into existence as an exact function of this lack. Jacques Lacan
Desires to which we cling closely can easily prevent us from being what we ought to be and can be; and on the other hand, desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer. Lack of desire is poverty. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Virginia Woolf quote: "Desiring truth, awaiting it, laboriously distilling a few..."
Desiring truth, awaiting it, laboriously distilling a few words, forever desiring --- Virginia Woolf
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which trancends everything. Napolean Hill
Kim Stanley Robinson quote: "Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living..."
Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire... Life is wanting. Kim Stanley Robinson
Desire consumes you, it takes you over. You forget yourself completely. All you can think about is the other, the one you desire, your self is just a fire. Marilyn French
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. Napolean Hill
Blaise Pascal quote: "Desire and force between them are responsible for all our..."
Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary. Blaise Pascal
Bobby Unser quote: "Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not..."
Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire. Bobby Unser
Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement. Willa Cather
Sivananda quote: "Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy."
Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy. Sivananda
Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self. Samuel Alexander
Susan Sontag quote: "Desire has no history..."
Desire has no history... Susan Sontag
W. Somerset Maugham quote: "Desire is sad."
Desire is sad. W. Somerset Maugham

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