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Love is blind, but desire just doesn't give a good goddamn

Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.

Love is never abstract. It does not adhere to the universe or the planet or the nation or the institution or the profession, but to the singular sparrows of the street, the lilies of the field, "to the least of these my brethren." Love is not, by its own desire, heroic. It is heroic only when compelled to be. It exists by its willingness to be anonymous, humble, and unrewarded.

Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers.

Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.

Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.

Love is power, the purest power and the greatest power: Love is God. Nothing can be higher than that. But this power is not a desire to enslave others, this power is not a destructive force. This power is the very source of creation. This power is creativity. And this power will transform you totally into a new being. It has no concern with anybody. Its whole concern is to bring your seeds to their ultimate flowering.

Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.

Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.

Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.

Love is the sun, desire - only flash.

Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly, that you feel you could die of it!

Love makes the Real of desire accessible without its tragic dimension

Love remains a relation with the Other that turns into need, transcendent exteriority of the other, of the beloved. But love goes beyond the beloved... The possibility of the Other appearing as an object of a need while retaining his alterity, or again,the possibility of enjoying the Other... this simultaneity of need and desire, or concupiscence and transcendence,... constitutes the originality of the erotic which, in this sense, is the equivocal par excellence.

Love properly understood is God—the font of all creation and the ultimate goal of all desires; God properly understood is love.

Love points the way. Desire is its ignorant advisor.

Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love. And think not you can direct the course of love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.

Love, till dawn sunder night from day with fire Dividing my delight and my desire.

Lustful Desire (although 'twere rather fit To some brute creature to attribute it) Shall be presented in the second place, Because it shrouds a vile deformed face Beneath love's vizard, and assumes that name, Hiding its own fault with the other's blame.

Lust is what keeps you wanting to do it even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you want to be with each other even when you have no desire to do it.

Lust is weak desire. A woman without a good head on her shoulders is nothing but a piece of meat.

Macbeth's deed is done in horror, and without the faintest desire or sense of glory- done, one may almost say, as if it were an appalling duty; the instant it is finished, its futility is revealed to Macbeth as clearly as its vileness had been revealed beforehand

...ma gia volgena il mio disio e'l velle si come rota ch'igualmente e mossa, l'amor che move: i sole e l'altre stelle ...as a wheel turns smoothtly, free from jars, my will and my desire were turned by love, The love that moves the sun and the other stars.

Magick, in essence, is the ability to communicate to the universe what you want in an effective way, so that the universe can then respond and create what you desire.

Make a list of your current wants and desires. Next to each, put down what benefit or payoff there would be when you achieve it. Look at this list often throughout the day and before retiring at night.

Make the expectations lively enough, and action will follow.

Make sure your desire to do what you're aspiring to do is deeper than just fame and being a celebrity.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Making drawings with text in the first place, it really was born of a desire to be economic, and to do things as simply as possible, and to do as much as I could by the most economic means.

Making every desire come true is not difficult once you realize that the same thing is always at work - you are transforming pure awareness from one state to another.

Manage your mind. When we direct our thoughts and words toward the outcome we most desire, we ignite grace.

Mandatory auditor rotation is designed to address a potential conflict of interest between a public company and its auditor. Because an auditor is hired and paid by the public company it audits, the auditor's desire to maintain a good relationship with its client could conflict with its duty to rigorously question the client's financial statements.

Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.

Man-hating is everywhere, but everywhere it is twisted and transformed, disguised, tranquilized, and qualified. It coexists, never peacefully, with the love, desire, respect, and need women also feel for men. Always man-hating is shadowed by its milder, more diplomatic and doubtful twin, ambivalence.

Manipulate the situation to create the reality of your desire

Man, as an originator of action, is a union of desire and intellect.

Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and content; but nature compels him to leave ease... and throw himself into roils and labors.

Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

Man did not address his inquiries to the earth on which he stood until a remarkably late stage in the development of his desire for knowledge. And the answers he received to the questions, "Where do I come from?", "What is man?", although they made him poorer by a few illusions, gave him in compensation a knowledge of his past that is vaster than he could ever have dreamed. For it emerged that the history of life was his history too.

Manic depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live.

Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.

Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality.

Man is not, like the animals, an obsequious puppet of instincts and sensual impulses. Man has the power to suppress instinctive desires, he has a will of his own, he chooses between incompatible ends.

Man should earnestly desire the well - being of all God's creations and pray that we may have the strength to do so.

Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being. As a solitary being, he attempts to protect his own existence and that of those who are closest to him, to satisfy his personal desires, and to develop his innate abilities. As a social being, he seeks to gain the recognition and affection of his fellow human beings, to share in their pleasures, to comfort them in their sorrows, and to improve their conditions of life.

Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries about in his pocket. The more he has the more they weight him down.

Man's pursuit of physical desires and earthly possessions is an indication of his lack of conviction that the purpose of his existence is the attainment of spirituality.

Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of love.

Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire.

Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.