Oprah Winfrey Quotes, Letting Go Quotes, Desire Quotes

What I know for sure: Having the best things is no substitute for having the best life. When you can let go of the desire to acquire, you know you are really on your way.

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How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires.

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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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I have a burning desire to entertain and different mediums allow me to do this in different ways.

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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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All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.

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Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy? Why a little curtain of flesh on the bed of our desire?

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The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained.

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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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'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

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She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.

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I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.

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Longing, it may be, is the gift no other gift supplies.

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

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There are some desires that are not desirable.

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There is no greater crime than desire.

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

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I am, I am not, I will be, I will not be are vein thoughts which is a sickness and once all are eliminated no desire arises.

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We should awaken feelings of respect for each other. In other words, awaken the desire to kill selfishness.

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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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