Desires Quotes
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Having fallen from the eternal, the Evil One's desires are endless, insatiable. Having fallen from pure Being, he is driven by the desire to possess, to fill his emptiness. But the problem is insoluble, always. He is compelled to have and to hold, to possess and consume, and nothing else. All he takes, he destroys.
Denis de Rougemont
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You only have to believe that you can succeed, that you can be whatever your heart desires, be willing to work for it, and you can have it.
Oprah Winfrey
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There are desires that we all want to achieve, but remember respect is most greatest to receive.
Antonio Hardy
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Adventures, I reflected, are all very fine but a certain amount of civilised comfort forms the true kernel of our desires.
K. W. Jeter
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Countless are, as the sand in the sea, the deep desires of men, and none resembles the other, and all of them, whether shameful, or great, in the beginning are obedient, but later become terrible masters over him.
Nikolai Gogol
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Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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There is no greater offence than harbouring desires. There is no greater disaster than discontent. There is no greater misfortune than wanting more.
Lao Tzu
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Of course you want to be rich and famous. It's natural. Wealth and fame are what every man desires. The question is: What are you willing to trade for it?
Confucius
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Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with less.
Jonathan Swift
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Who is unhappy with little, won't be with much; who doesn't appreciate the small won't be able to take care of the large; who doesn't have enough with enough is at the margin or virtue, for the physical body lives from one day to another and if it gets what it really needs, there will be time for meditation, as long as if we try to give it everything it desires, endless will be the task.
Lao Tzu
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To many men much-wandering hope comes as a boon, but to many others it is the deception of vain desires.
Sophocles
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Some persons hold that, while it is proper for the lawgiver to encourage and exhort men to virtue on moral grounds, in the expectation that those who have had a virtuous moral upbringing will respond, yet he is bound to impose chastisement and penalties on the disobedient and ill-conditioned, and to banish the incorrigible out of the state altogether. For (they argue) although the virtuous man, who guides his life by moral ideals, will be obedient to reason, the base, whose desires are fixed on pleasure, must be chastised by pain, like a beast of burden.
Aristotle
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Ser eyes met his, hers naked with pleading, his remote as mountain lakes under gray skies. She saw in them defeat of her wild dream, her mad desires.
Margaret Mitchell