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Letter "D" » desires
«Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and the of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.»
Author: Chanakya
(Politician, strategist, Writer)
| Keywords:
desires, divined, divines, divining, senses
«Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.»
Author: Frank Herbert
(Author, Writer)
| About:
Discipline
| Keywords:
captive, desires, The Captive
«That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the history of the whole world»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| About:
Majority,
Minority
| Keywords:
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«Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.»
«Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.»
«one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science isescape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopelessdreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. Afinely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into theworld of objective perception and thought.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
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«Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.»
Author: Elbert Hubbard
| About:
Expectation
| Keywords:
answers, desires, disappoint, disappoints, expectation, gives, meet, satisfaction, satisfactions, thoroughly, though, yet
«Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires»
Author: Lao Tzu
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
desires, embrace, manifest, manifesting, plainness, reduce, selfishness, simplicities, simplicity
«One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.»
Author: Robert Collier
| Keywords:
as to, as well, contradictories, contradictory, desires, directions, equal, force, horses, maintain, moving, moving in, opposes, opposing, ride, sets, well-tried
«Man's Desires are limited by his Perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.»
Author: William Blake
(Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet)
| Keywords:
desires, limited, none, perceived, perceptions
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