Desires Quotes
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Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
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The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much.
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You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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For a sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
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The yogi offers his labyrinthine human longings to a monotheistic bonfire dedicated to the unparalleled God. This is indeed the true yogic fire ceremony, in which all past and present desires are fuel consumed by love divine.
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Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.
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I had learned, from years of experience with men, that when a man really desires a thing so deeply that he is willing to stake his entire future on a single turn of the wheel in order to get it, he is sure to win.
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A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.
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It is also a natural thing for a serious young man that he should form for himself as precise an idea as possible of the goal of his desires.
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
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I'm the sort of person that doesn't really have specific 'inspiration.' It probably comes more from my doubts and my desires.
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
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We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.
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The framers of our Constitution understood the dangers of unbridled government surveillance. They knew that democracy could flourish only in spaces free from government snooping and interference, and they put restraints on government overreaching in the Fourth Amendment of the Bill of Rights. . . . These protections require, at a minimum, a neutral arbiter - a magistrate - standing between the government's endless desire for information and the citizens' desires for privacy.
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Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.
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Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.
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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
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Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.
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The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.
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My desires are simply I love to teach, I love to be in uniform, I love to throw batting practice, I love to be with the kids.
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Fairytales work on two levels. On a conscious level, they are stories of true love and triumph and overcoming difficult odds and so are pleasurable to read. But they work on a deeper and symbolic level in that they play out our universal psychological dramas and hidden desires and fears.
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Your desires will source you with the inspiration to release your outdated beliefs and let go of whatever behavior is keeping you stuck in the past.
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The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
