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Desire

(noun) Someone or something wished for. Example: "It is my desire to speak with you."

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"The desire for peace is universal."
— Charlie Chaplin
"The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise."
— Maya Angelou
"If we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity."
— George Washington
"I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there."
— Paulo Coelho
"I desire to be with you. I miss you. I feel lonely when I can't see you. I am obsessed with you, fascinated by you, infatuated with you. I hunger for your taste, your smell, the feel of your soul touching mine."
— Jack Llawayllynn
"Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires."
— Lao Tzu
"You don't get things that you desire but you receive things that you deserve."
— Carla Stokes
"You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will."
— George Bernard Shaw
"All men by nature desire knowledge."
— Aristotle
"Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love."
— Friedrich Nietzsche
"Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh."
— Marcus Aurelius
"Every desire is a self-portrait of the person who pursues it."
— Alex Daniel
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