Paulo Coelho Quotes, Profound Quotes, Desire Quotes

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

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Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.

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There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it.

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A nation like China has become one of the biggest production fields for exporting cheap labor, which also re-questions our history and past, re-questions human desire, and the human illusions of the past.

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When anything is in the presence of evil, but is not as yet evil, the presence of good arouses the desire of good in that thing; but the presence of evil, which makes a thing evil, takes away the desire and friendship of the good; for that which was once both good and evil has now become evil only, and the good has no friendship with evil.

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Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.

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Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

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Free from desire, you realize the mystery.

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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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To wait on God is to live a life of desire toward Him, delight in Him, dependence on Him, and devotedness to Him.

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

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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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He who desires to see the living God face-to-face should not seek him in the empty, firmament of his mind, but in human love.

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For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudences of the brawling world reach you no more.

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No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things.

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Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.

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[I]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing to be good because we desire it. It is the thought that starts things off.

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If there are sound reasons or bases for the points you demand, then there is no need for violence. On the other hand, when there is no sound reason that concessions should be made to you but mainly your own desire, then reason cannot work and you have to rely on force. Thus using force is not a sign of strength but rather a sign of weakness.

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When we have the Holy Spirit we have all that is needed to be all that God desires us to be.

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Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.

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