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Letter "D" » Desire
«The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.»
Author: Carl Sandburg
(Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Admiration,
Desire,
Happiness
| Keywords:
admire, desiring
«The desire to write grows with writing.»
«We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.»
Author: Francois Rabelais
| About:
Desire
«What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring.»
«Wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they are obtained in the right way they may not be possessed.»
«The desire to know is natural to good men.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
(Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor)
| About:
Desire,
Mankind
| Keywords:
desire to know, natural
«We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory»
«The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.»
«We [poets] set men free from their desires.»
«Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.»
Author: William Blake
(Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet)
| About:
Desire
| Keywords:
restrain, restrained
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