"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."

Desire, Satisfaction, Spiritual, Hope

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"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."

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"Her skin smelled like the twilight moon and her eyes looked primal, like a hungry animal. She was darkness " dangerous, beautiful darkness."

Melody Lee, American Poet

Desire, Darkness, Beauty, Danger

"I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader."

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

Desire, Writers

"We' (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) have only one desire, and that too is a discharging desire of doing 'Jagat kalyan' (world's salvation)."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

Desire, Truth, Inspirational, Happiness, Wisdom

"The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

Desire, Apples, Life, Metaphor

"He wants her to want him with the same intensity. She looks upon him with lusts draw and whispers, "Take me, I am yours."

Truth Devour, Australian Author

Desire, Love, Passion, Emotion

"I want to drink from you're life force."

Truth Devour, Australian Author

Desire, Life, Energy, Connection

"They ask - "How much money is too much money?"The answer always is - "A little more!"

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

Desire, Money, Question

"I could no longer desire physically without feeling a need for her, without suffering from her absence."

Marcel Proust, French Author

Desire, Absence, Love, Needs

"When sages commend excess, Desire is sick."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

Desire, Excess

"Success is like the most beautiful woman: pursued by many, loved by all, feared by few, courted by the patient and hardworking, and won over by good judgment."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Desire, Success, Beautiful, Pursued, Patient

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"The 'doctrines' we get out of the true myth are of course less true: they are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in a language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection."

Religion

"Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again."

Childhood

"And yet all loneliness, angers, hatreds, envies, and itchings that (Hell) contains, if rolled into one single experience and put into the scale against the least moment of the joy that is felt by the least in Heaven, would have no weight that could be registered at all. Bad cannot succeed even in being bad as truly as good is good."

Contrast

"We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who know Him can be saved by Him."

Religion

"One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again."

Childhood

"I enjoy writing fiction more than writing anything else. Wouldn't anyone?"

Passion

"The truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the authors in order to enjoy the critics."

Art

"Aslan" said Lucy "you're bigger"."That is because you are older, little one" answered he."Not because you are?""I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger"."

Growth

"Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?"

Creation