Desire To Live Quotes - Page 2

There's always a tension in me between my urge to destroy and my will to live... Every morning I wake up with a new wrath, a new suspiciousness, a new desire to live.

Ingmar Bergman

Morning, Wrath, Desire

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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

Jonathan Swift

Cute, Men, Long

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There is nothing more beautiful in the world, enough to lose one's head. A sunset with a long nose, a starry sky that lies, a river searching for its father, a beautiful blue forest. It makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it's very mean, generous, magical, universal, a picture of freedom, of unrestrained desire to live, of pain and joy - a joy so powerful and sweet that it restores the souls in every spot on earth. The story of Pinocchio - nothing more beautiful in the world.

Roberto Benigni

Beautiful, Sweet, Pain

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Art includes everything which stimulates the desire to live; science includes everything which sharpens the desire to know. Art, even the most disinterested, the most disembodied, is the auxiliary of life.

Remy de Gourmont

Art, Knowledge, Science

"Selections from All His Works".

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Persons who have no desire to live have a very slight chance of recovery. We can continue to extend to them our love, sympathy, and prayers; but ultimately we must respect a person's decision to die.

Michio Kushi

Love, Prayer, Recovery

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I do not desire to die soon, because in Heaven there is no suffering. I desire to live a long time because I yearn to suffer much for the love of my Spouse.

Magdalena de Pazzi

Long, Heaven, Suffering

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Revival is a renewed conviction of sin and repentance, followed by an intense desire to live in obedience to God. It is giving up one's will to God in deep humility.

Charles Grandison Finney

Giving Up, Humility, Desire

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However widespread the desire to be free, that is wholly different from a desire to live in a society where others are free.

Thomas Sowell

Desire, Different

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I do - oh, indeed I do - desire to live up to my profession, to be His, for time and eternity. But I am learning to sec how very weak I am, and how easily Satan can conquer me even when I do strive against him. I do believe with my head that Jesus can, and will give me His grace, and I do not need to fear, yet somehow my heart seems to be hard and cold and not to take it in. Oh, if we were but there - where there is no more sin ! Oh do not forget to pray for me, and don't ever doubt the love of your unworthy friend.

Frances Ridley Havergal

Jesus, Believe, Heart

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I have no desire to live anywhere else but New Zealand. I've had the good fortune to travel widely around the world, but New Zealand is home - and I like to be here. I'm proud to be a New Zealander.

Edmund Hillary

Home, Desire, Proud

"Sir Edmund Hillary's last ever interview". Interview with Maggie Barry, www.noted.co.nz. January 26, 2008.

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There is no more desire to live past one's time than to die before it.

Isaac Asimov

Death, Past, Desire

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The inert mind is a greater danger than the inert body, for it overlays and stifles the desire to live.

Robertson Davies

Mind, Desire, Body

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Bind to you friends of your own kind, friends who will encourage you, stand with you, live as you desire to live, who will enjoy the same kind of entertainment, and who will resist the evil that you determine to resist.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Evil, Desire, Entertainment

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From the tiny birds of the air and from the fragile lilies of the field, we learn the same truth, which is so important for those who desire to live a life of simple faith: God takes care of His own. He knows our needs. He anticipates our crises. He is moved by our weaknesses. He stands ready to come to our rescue. And at just the right moment, He steps in and proves Himself as our faithful heavenly Father.

Charles R. Swindoll

Father, Simple, Air

Charles R. Swindoll (1999). “Grace Awakening/Hope Again/Simple Faith”, Nelsonword Publishing Group

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An affirmation is simply a positive declaration of something you believe to be true or something you expect to become true and desire to live by. Affirmations transform your thinking, your attitudes, and finally, your behavior. Their impact on attitudes and behavior help to produce the results you desire.

Paul J. Meyer

Attitude, Believe, Thinking

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Ours is certainly not an old culture. Yet in recent decades we've used more energy, destroyed more soil, created more pathogenicity (temporarily stopped some too, for sure), mutated more bacteria, and dumped more toxicity on the planet than all the cultures before us-combined. I love the United States, but I am not blind to the wrongs. I have no desire to live anywhere else, but that doesn't mean I think everything we're doing should be done or can be maintained.

Joel Salatin

Mean, Thinking, Desire

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There appears to exist a greater desire to live long than to live well! Measure by man's desires, he cannot live long enough; measure by his good deeds, and he has not lived long enough; measure by his evil deeds, and he has lived too long.

Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Life, Men, Long

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The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.

Richard Powers

Ideas, Imagination, Desire

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Let no one who has the slightest desire to live in peace and quietness be tempted, under any circumstances, to enter upon the chivalrous task of trying to correct a popular error.

William Thoms

Errors, Desire, Trying

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What we share with animals is a desire for choice. It's a desire to have control over our life and a desire to live and use choice as a way in which we can facilitate our ability to live and that is something we really were born with.

Sheena Iyengar

Animal, Choices, Desire

Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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There will never Queen sit in my seat with more zeal to my country, care to my subjects and that will sooner with willingness venture her life for your good and safety than myself. For it is my desire to live nor reign no longer than my life and reign shall be for your good. And though you have had, and may have, many princes more mighty and wise sitting in this seat, yet you never had nor shall have, any that will be more careful and loving.

Elizabeth I

Wise, Country, Queens

Farewell Speech to the House of Commons, en.wikisource.org. November 30, 1601.

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It is my fundamental belief that all human beings share the same basic aspirations: that we all want hapiness and that we all share suffering. Asians, just like Americans, Europeans, and the rest of the world, share a desire to live life to its fullest, to better ourselves and the lives of our loved ones.

Dalai Lama

Live Life, Suffering, Desire

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When the Holy Spirit sanctifies believers, he does a complete work in them. He puts into their minds, wills and hearts a gracious, supernatural principle which fills them with a holy desire to live to God. The whole life and being of holiness lies in this. This is the new creation.

John Owen

Lying, Heart, Mind

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To multiply the years and divide by the desire to live is a kind of false accounting.

Peter Heller

Years, Desire, Kind

Peter Heller (2012). “The Dog Stars”, p.103, Vintage

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All action is generated by desire. It is the desire to live that causes us to reincarnate.

Frederick Lenz

Desire, Causes, Action

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