Aristotle Quotes, Mean Quotes, Desire Quotes

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

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Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone.

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Renunciation - non-resistance - non-destructiveness - are the ideals to be attained through less and less worldliness, less and less resistance, less and less destructiveness. Keep the ideal in view and work towards it. None can live in the world without resistance, without destruction, without desire. The world has not come to that state yet when the ideal can be realised in society.

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But I have no desire for fame and power anymore. I crawled out of the swamp and I'm not crawling back in.

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Himmlisch ist's wenn ich bezwungen Meine irdische Begier; Aber doch wenn's nich gelungen Hatt' ich auch recht huebsch Plaisir! Loosely translated: It is heavenly, when I overcome My earthly desires But nevertheless, when I'm not successful, It can also be quite pleasurable.

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My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire.

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All you need is something to say, and a burning desire to say it... it doesn't matter where your hands are.

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The main cause of suffering is egoistic desire for one's own comfort and happiness.

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She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

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I understood . . . that those who desired salvation should act like the trustee who, though having control over great possessions, regards not an iota of them as his own.

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A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.

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My endeavors Have ever come too short of my desires. Yet filed with my abilities.

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The knowledge which we seek, the answers for which we yearn, and the strength which we desire today to meet the challenges of a complex and changing world can be ours when we willingly obey the Lord’s commandments.

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For if you know what you want, and will be content with it, you can be trusted. But if you do not know, your desires are limitless and no one can tell how to deal with you. Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.

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If you have a great many desires, you will gradually eliminate them one by one, until you allow certain desires to dominate and the others to die away.

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The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.

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The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up.

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Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

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I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.

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Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.

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