She doesn't understand that doors, walls, fences, ceilings - they're helpless to keep out what determinedly desires to get in.
Sonya HartnettTag: desires doors understand walls helpless fences ceilings get-in keep-out
We spend a lot of time trying to get more and more things, not realizing that those things can never fulfill us. Learn from those who have gone before you - stuff can never satisfy your desires, so focus on THE ONE who can.
Osayi Emokpae LasisiTag: love god desires stuff focus
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Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies.
Dejan StojanovicTag: wisdom books poetry philosophy silence literature poets vanity desires quotes omnipotent fights beyond poetry-quotes literature-quotes dejan-stojanovic the-sun-watches-the-sun
Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing.
Dejan StojanovicTag: wisdom books poetry philosophy literature poets desires desire growing quotes sayings poetry-quotes literature-quotes dejan-stojanovic the-sun-watches-the-sun
A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams.
Dejan StojanovicTag: wisdom books poetry philosophy dreams literature poets desires desire expectations quotes poetry-quotes literature-quotes dejan-stojanovic
It became clear that Keisha Blake could not start something without finishing it. If she climbed onto the boundary wall of Caldwell, she was compelled to walk the entire wall, no matter the obstructions in her path (beer cans, branches). This compulsion, applied to other fields, manifested itself as "intelligence." Every unknown word sent her to a dictionary--in search of something like "completion"--and every book led to another book, a process that, of course, could never be completed. This route through early life gave her no small portion of joy, and, indeed, it seemed at first that her desires and her capacities were basically aligned. She wanted to read things--could not resist wanting to read things--and reading was easily done, and relatively inexpensive. On the other hand, that she should receive any praise for such reflexive habits baffled the girl, for she knew herself to be fantastically stupid about many things. Wasn't it possible that what others mistook for intelligence was in fact only a sort of mutation of the will?
Zadie SmithTag: intelligence reading will joy completion desires starting compulsion finishing
The typical atheist rebels against God as a teenager rebels against his parents. When his own desires or standards are not fulfilled in the way that he sees fit, he, in revolt, storms out of the house in denial of the Word of God and in scrutiny of a great deal of those who stand by the Word of God. The epithet 'Heavenly Father' is a grand reflection, a relation to that of human nature.
Criss JamiTag: god religion atheism child arrogance denial desires anger rebellion apologetics teenagers standards agnosticism father childish revolt theism heavenly-father antitheism
It does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants
Louisa May AlcottTag: desires greed restraint want
I wanted a metamorphosis, a change to fish, to leviathan, to destroyer. I wanted the earth to open up, to swallow everything in one engulfing yawn. I wanted to see the city buried fathoms deep in the bosom of the sea. I wanted to sit in a cave and read by candlelight. I wanted that eye extinguished so that I might have a chance to know my own body, my own desires. I wanted to be alone for a thousand years in order to reflect on what I had seen and heard - and in order to forget.
Henry MillerTag: reflect alone desires forget yawn metamorphosis candlelight caves leviathan
If you surrender your free will, then someone is bound to take the reins and lead you to a place that is not of your own true desire.
Steven RedheadTag: desires lead place surrender reins fre-will true-desires
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