Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on desire
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar96 quotes“What puts you on the road is your desire to enjoy. What brings you home is being in love.”
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Norah RoseNorah Rose A memory is a star or a stain.
Aneena BijuAneena Biju Love her, but don’t forget to leave her wild.
Little PaulsonLittle Paulson Do your own thing and live your way of happiness.
Emily BockEmily Bock I’ve experienced departure far too much to have the courage and call anyone my own.
Mira R. AridiMira R. Aridi More often than I am not, all I need is the rise of my own lungs – I am already complete.
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If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
John DonneJohn Donne As is your sort of mind, So is your sort of search: You will find what you desire.
Robert BrowningRobert Browning I have struck a city – a real city – and they call it Chicago… I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.
Rudyard KiplingRudyard Kipling She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.
Jack LondonJack London It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.
Thomas PynchonThomas Pynchon He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
John MiltonJohn Milton In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee, While the world’s tide is bearing me along; Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me, Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong.
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