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Desire

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

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"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
"If we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity."
— George Washington
"All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire."
— Rumi
"I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away."
— Rumi
"Imagination is the beginning of creation."
— George Bernard Shaw
"If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it."
— George Washington
"To understand the limitation of things, desire them."
— Lao Tzu
"I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish."
— Maya Angelou
"All men by nature desire knowledge."
— Aristotle
"Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire."
— George Bernard Shaw
"I felt like an animal, and animals don’t know sin, do they?"
— Jess C. Scott
"Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want wants you too."
— Jack Canfield
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