Alain de Botton Quotes, Desire Quotes, May Quotes

Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our resources. And every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.

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It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized.

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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

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All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves...

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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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Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.

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Formerly, when I would feel a desire to understand someone, or myself, I would take into consideration not actions, in which everything is relative, but wishes. Tell me what you want and I'll tell you who you are.

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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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The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.

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If your desire is for good, the people will be good.

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If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired for the sake of this), and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else (for at that rate the process would go on to infinity, so that our desire would be empty and vain), clearly this must be the good and the chief good.

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The will is infinite and the execution confin'd, the desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit.

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...Everything that is, desires to be. As we act, we unfold our being. Enjoyment naturally follows, for a thing desired always brings delight.

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Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

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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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God desires to reveal to us that His capacity to forgive is bigger than our capacity to sin.

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

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The notion of sitting down and conjuring up, not only words in which to clothe thoughts but thoughts worthy of being clothed--the whole thing was absurdly beyond his desires.

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Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?

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Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of: Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, Dharma and the full fledged devotion to God.

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