Desire-Aspire-Perspire-Inspire but, don’t Expire!

To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.

Overheard on a Saltmarsh”Nymph, nymph, what are your beads?Green glass, goblin. Why do you stare at them?Give them me.No.Give them me. Give them me.No.Then I will howl all night in the reeds,Lie in the mud...

The idea of never settling for less, surely doesn’t suggest not acknowledging and celebrating every accomplished step that leads to where you desire to be in the future.

We all have a sea inside us; can you hear it? Can you hear the ocean roaring?

The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living

I asked her to wear something revealing, so she showed up in a prophet’s toga.

To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.

There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire

Desire to seek knowledge and wisdom.

I am worried about the health of our best starters, but they have the desire to play and that makes me happy.

Some want, to be exempt. They do not want to excel, they do not want to exert. They want to be considered excellent, for desiring to be held exempt, from all accountability.

let your desires be His prayer in you. trust them. let them take you by the hand.let them walk you forward into the next moment, and the next, and the next, and the next…

I felt like an animal, and animals don’t know sin, do they?

On the edge of dreaming when the brain lets go, when it stops its scheming, our blood runs slow… Then the heart speaks clearly of the things it knows, things it brought so dearly at...

we can’t even control a blind man’s desire to see the world by his own eye,philosophy is to see outside by inside.

….love and desire enjoy a symbiotic relationship, meaning that one cannot exist without the other. Desire is an enemy to contentment; desire is illness, a feverish brain. Who can be considered healthy who wants? The...

Maura looks stunned, as though she’s been slapped. “What about me? Don’t you trust me?” She gives a hysterical little laugh. Tears are gathering in her blue eyes. “Let me guess: you think I’m reckless....

But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart’s desire, their dream… But the price of getting what you want, is getting what you once wanted.

It’s wonderful to feel desired. There’s a sense of power in it, really.

Once you see that your skin and your gift are two sides of the same coin, you can never forget it. It preserves religion from any arrogance and denial.

His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet...

Hope is a fire more ravenous than the flames of temptation. For if only a portion of it poisons your veins, it is enough to make you stand against ridiculous odds again and again and...

The longing for a man, as you know, is a grand escape. It can arch your mental process to extremes so that, like a gymnast or a ballerina, you’re contorted to such outrageous limits –...

We went to places where we felt – like all lovers – that we were the first.We discovered the body of a lover has secrets that never end.We discovered that at times the same secrets...

All day and all night my desire for you unwinds like a poisonous snake.

Desire leads to ultimate ruin.

There is a difference between desire and desperation.

Think of it.” Now he is speaking to you, no one but you. “It may not matter what we want for science, or what we think is ethical. All we must do is provide the...

If he keeps his desire the way it is, there are no limits for how good he can be. He was dominant from the day he came out. We were well aware we had someone...

I didn’t grasp that desire and duty could rival each other, least of all that they most often did.

Nothing turned a man on faster than a woman that couldn’t get enough of what he had to offer.

you” need to be and who needs to be with you to fulfill what God is asking you to do. Your life is your own. You must define your dreams, not live someone else’s vision...

To put it in a rather vulgar way, I had been dreaming about love in the firm belief that I could not be loved, but at the final stage I had substituted desire for love...

Priorities” There’s No Such Thing as “Busy

REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.

Concurrently, when it comes to matters of the heart we are encouraged to treat partners as though they were objects we can pick up, use, and the discard and dispose of at will, with the...

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

He drunkenly recognized that the lust was part of something bigger, of a craving to pursue pleasure unreasonably, beyond the right and wrong, to go as far as his body took him. In the body...

My will and my desire were turned by love, the love that moves the sun and the other stars.’ Dante was trying to explain faith, I think, as an overpowering love, and maybe it’s blasphemous,...

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.

Constant love despite almost impossible anti-clamix towards this place of the rising sun…

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.

Plant the seed of desire in the field of imagination to grow the harvest of invention.

I heard him sweeping with the broom, and then he suddenly stopped.I had obviously got his attention, and he was looking.Take a good look, honey, I thought. Take a good look at what I’m offering.I...

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the...

To spend your time wanting things is to smother your time for achieving things beyond your expectations.

How miserably hypocritical, you might say, but no sooner am I offered a chance to flee Hell than I yearn to stay. Few families hold their relations as closely as do prisons. Few marriages sustain...

I inherited a pound from my British uncle. I’d have rather gotten a dollar, because what do I want with an animal shelter?

will”.