"Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and manifest that intense, eager, longing, craving, insistent, demanding, ravenous Desire which is akin to the persistent, insistent, ardent, overwhelming desire of the drowning man for a breath of air; of the shipwrecked or desert-lost man for a drink of water; of the famished man for bread and meat"

Collier, Robert on desire
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"To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt."

Bakunin, Mikhail on rebellion
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"Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being."

Camus, Albert on rebellion   

"What is a rebel? A man who says no."

Camus, Albert on rebellion
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"I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government."

Jefferson, Thomas on rebellion
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"I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against."

Madonna on rebellion
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"Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion."

Proverb, Scottish on rebellion   

"Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet"

Einstein, Albert on vegetarianism
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"A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses."

Shaw, George Bernard on vegetarianism   

"You can have anything you want -- if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, have anything you desire, accomplish anything you set out to accomplish -- if you will hold to that desire with singleness of purpose."

Collier, Robert on desire
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"Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment."

Collier, Robert on desire
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"Desire is proof of the availability..."

Collier, Robert on desire
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"It sometimes seems that we have only to love a thing greatly to get it."

Collier, Robert on desire
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"It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire."

Diderot, Denis on desire
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"There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on desire
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"Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment."

Johnson, Samuel on desire   

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

Kierkegaard, Søren on desire
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"We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on desire
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"The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed."

Mcdonald, John on desire
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"If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain."

Maurois, Andre on desire   

"The key that unlocks energy is Desire. It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited."

Nightingale, Earl on desire   

"Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary."

Pascal, Blaise on desire
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"The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so."

Patmore, Coventry on desire   

"A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves."

Sivananda, Sri Swami on desire
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"An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing."

Smiles, Samuel on desire
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"The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man."

Stael, Germaine De on desire
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"The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable."

Vanbrugh, Sir John on desire   

"You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The Law of Emotional Choice directs us to acknowledge our feelings but also to refuse to get stuck in the negative ones."

Anderson, Greg on emotions
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"All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual."

Balzac, Honore De on emotions
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"By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison it."

Collins, Joseph on emotions
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"Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind."

Eastman, Max on emotions   

"All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on emotions
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"There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion."

Jung, Carl on emotions
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"We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything. For that very reason we ought to discipline ourselves a little; for that very reason we ought to cultivate a little emotion, a little emotional vice, from time to time. It may be hard for us; and among ourselves we may perhaps laugh at the appearance we thus present. But what of that! We no longer have any other mode of self-overcoming available to us: this is our asceticism, our penance."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on emotions
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"Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits."

Sheen, Bishop Fulton J. on emotions
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"The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray."

Wilde, Oscar on emotions
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"The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love."

Baldwin, James on sex
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"For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts."

Brecht, Bertolt on sex
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"The more developed sexual passion, in both sexes, is very largely an emotion of power, domination, or appropriation. There is no state of feeling that says mine, mine, more fiercely."

Cooley, Charles Horton on sex
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"You can't remember sex. You can remember the fact of it, and recall the setting, and even the details, but the sex of the sex cannot be remembered, the substantive truth of it, it is by nature self-erasing, you can remember its anatomy and be left with a judgment as to the degree of your liking of it, but whatever it is as a splurge of being, as a loss, as a charge of the conviction of love stopping your heart like your execution, there is no memory of it in the brain, only the deduction that it happened and that time passed, leaving you with a silhouette that you want to fill in again."

Doctorow, E. L. on sex
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