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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Author: John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873) | Theme: Wish | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Desire is the very essence of man.

Author: Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677) | Theme: Wish | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.

Author: Sheilah Graham Westbrook (1904 - 1988) | Theme: Wish | Clicks: 112 | Rank: 9.89 | Fav

Desire creates its own object.

Author: Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1934 - 2002) | Theme: Wish | Clicks: 17 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.

Author: Stendhal (1783 - 1842) | Theme: Wish | Clicks: 73 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving.

Author: Dalton Trumbo (1905 - 1976) | Theme: Wish | Clicks: 293 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

All I ever wanted to be was happy.

Author: Goldie Jean Hawn (1945) | Theme: Wish | Clicks: 246 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

In love, everything is chancing, all is becoming important: from nothing rises a giant.

Author: Tudor Arghezi (1880 - 1967) | Theme: Wish | Clicks: 1013 | Rank: 9.20 | Fav

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Author: Napoleon Hill (1883 - 1970) | Theme: Wish | Clicks: 93 | Rank: 0 | Fav

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Author: André Breton (1896 - 1966) | Theme: Wish | Clicks: 357 | Rank: 0 | Fav

A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.

Author: Madonna (1958) | Theme: Wish | Clicks: 407 | Rank: 9.71 | Fav

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

Author: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892) | Theme: Wish | Clicks: 157 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Let your desires be ruled by reason.

Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 i.Hr - 43 i.Hr) | Theme: Wish | Clicks: 577 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

Fourthly, I desire you to look not only upon that which you have lost, but also upon that which he hath left behinde him.

Author: John Pearson ( 1612 - 1686) | Theme: Wish | Clicks: 149 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

Author: Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993) | Theme: Wish | Clicks: 145 | Rank: 0 | Fav

What we have to do is to be for ever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions, never acquiescing in a facile orthodoxy, of Comte, or of Hegel, or of our own.

Author: Walter Pater (1839 - 1894) | Theme: Wish | Clicks: 136 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions, desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

Author: Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662) | Theme: Wish | Clicks: 139 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer is needed.

Author: Talcott Parsons (1902 - 1979) | Theme: Wish | Clicks: 163 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.

Author: Rosa Parks (1913 - 2005) | Theme: Wish | Clicks: 182 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

I cycled 25 miles a day every single day.

Author: Michael Parkinson (1935) | Theme: Wish | Clicks: 143 | Rank: 0 | Fav
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