"Here's a fact: Some people want to live moreThan others do."

Desire, Ambition, Intensity, Life

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"Here's a fact: Some people want to live moreThan others do."

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"Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Desire, Politeness

"I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

Desire, Limitation, Experience, Learning

"The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Desire,

"It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite."

Soren Kierkegaard, Danish Philosopher

Desire, Imperfection, Man

"Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire."

Patti Smith, American Musician

Desire, Sadness

"Without 'Gnan' (True Knowledge of the Self), desire(s) will not go away."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

Desire, Spiritual, Truth, Wisdom, Life

"Look into your heart- and go after what you really want."

Sophie Kinsella, British Author

Desire, Observation, Truth, Wisdom

"You need to be greedy or ignorant to truly want to live forever."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Desire, Greed, Immortality, Life

"If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Desire, Joy, Power, Peace

"Before strongly desiring anything we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Desire, Reflection, Happiness, Observation

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"Sure, we thought the acresThat we tilled were sacred,But how could we have knownThat wheat can haunt like ghosts."

Memory

"An Indian's wealth Is determined by what they lose And not by what they save."

Wealth

"You meet me after school right here", I said."Why?" he asked.I couldn't believe he was so stupid."Because we're going to finish this fight.""You're crazy," Roger said.He got to his feet and walked away. His gang stared at me like I was a serail killer, and they followed their leader.I was absolutely confused.I had followed the rules of fighting. i had behaved exactly the way I was supposed to behave. But these white boys had ignored the rules. In fact, they followed a whole other set of mysterious rules where people apparently DID NOT GET INTO FISTFIGHTS."

Conflict

"All I owe the world is my art."

Art

"But how can I get enough experience if they don't give me a chance to get experience?"

Opportunity

"When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author."

Gratitude

"Shit," he said. "I don't know why you're feeling sorry for yourself because you ain't had to fight a war. You're lucky. Shit, all you had was that damn Desert Storm. Should have called it Dessert Storm because it just made the fat cats get fatter. It was all sugar and whipped cream with a cherry on top. And besides that, you didn't even have to fight in it. All you lost during that was was sleep because you stayed up all night watching CNN."

War

"How much do we remember of what hurts us most? I've been thinking about pain, how each of us constructs our past to justify what we feel now. How each successive pain distorts the preceding."

Pain

"And believe me, a good piece of chicken can make anybody believe in the existence of God."

Faith

"And nostalgia is a cancer. Nostalgia will fill your heart up with tumors. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what you are. You're just an old fart dying of terminal nostalgia."

Nostalgia