Aristotle Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Desire Quotes

Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.

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

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Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect.

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The individual feels the futility of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in nature and in the world of thought.

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And that taught me you can't have anything, you can't have anything at all. Because desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it - but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you've got the inconsequential part, but the glitter that made you want it is gone.

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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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It (Tao) is eternally without desire. So, it can be called small. All things return to it, although it does not make itself their ruler. So, it can be called great.

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Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought.

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I desire you in friendship, and I will one way or other make you amends.

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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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Ethics: The indispensable interface between my desire to be happy and yours.

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

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Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.

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Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

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When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of gold?

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What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.

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The superior man does what is proper to the station in which he is; he does not desire to go beyond this.

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Only by accepting our desires can we have an idea of who we are.

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Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.

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I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.

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