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desire world wonder
If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world. C. S. Lewis
desire delight outrun
The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight. Algernon Charles Swinburne
desire gains wealth
The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption. William James
desire progress want
Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment. Samuel Johnson
desire vipers poison
Every desire is a viper in the bosom, who while he was chill was harmless; but when warmth gave him strength, exerted it in poison.
desire growing desire-for-power
The desire for power feeds off itself, growing as it devours. Ursula K. Le Guin
desire world longing
Our restlessness in this world seems to indicate that we are intended for a better. We have all of us a longing after happiness; and surely the Creator will gratify all the natural desires he has implanted in us. Robert Southey
desire income wealth
It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse. Robert Louis Stevenson
desire world forests
For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudences of the brawling world reach you no more.
growing-up white america
Growing up in America, I never really appreciated my culture. I knew what being Hispanic was, but I thought that since I didn't look Hispanic, I was white. Demi Lovato
growing-up children thinking
We think the purpose of a child is to grow up because it does grow up. But its purpose is to play, to enjoy itself, to be a child. If we merely look to the end of the process, the purpose of life is death Alexander Herzen
growing-up book ambition
When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like ants. Writers are not hard to kill either. But not books: however systematically you try to destroy them, there is always a chance that a copy will survive and continue to enjoy a shelf-life in some corner on an out-of-the-way library somehwere in Reykjavik, Valladolid or Vancouver. Amos Oz
growing-up opportunity play
I've always loved comedy and growing up it was the comedies that I really responded to. So I don't know how it turned out that once I started acting that I started getting a certain kind of role, that I never saw myself as growing up, so I really love when I get an opportunity to play a [comedian] role. Steve Buscemi
growing-up people negative
You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed. Will Smith
growing-up men comfort
When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. Kevyn Aucoin
growing-up plowing acres
I didn't grow up on the porch of a cabin looking out over the 90 acres that the mule was plowing with Paw-Paw playing the banjo. But I was always interested in folk music. Ketch Secor
growing-up thinking opera
I didn't grow up imagining myself as an opera composer. Only once in my entire adolescence did I attend an opera. I went and saw Aida at the old Met, didn't understand a thing about it, and thought it was pretty awful. But I think I had it in my genes without even realising it. John Adams
growing-up moon simple
I love this simple maiden, She grows upon me more and more, And--ask the moon who 't was that kissed, Last night upon the shore! George Arnold