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Letter "D" » desires
«Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards. Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.»
«If one's life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital: satisfaction with just enough food, clothing, and shelter to protect yourself from the elements. And finally, there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.»
Author: Dalai Lama
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«Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.»
«Boredom: the desire for desires»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
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Boredom
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boredom, desires
«A heart that desires to give is the one that succeeds.»
«A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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Mankind
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«. . . thinking is merely a relation of. . . . drives [desires, passions] to each other . . .»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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desires, drives, passions, relation, to each other
«But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully.»
«A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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«A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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desires, low, parent, repeat, self-loving, self love
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