Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Successful Quotes, Desire Quotes

Himmlisch ist's wenn ich bezwungen Meine irdische Begier; Aber doch wenn's nich gelungen Hatt' ich auch recht huebsch Plaisir! Loosely translated: It is heavenly, when I overcome My earthly desires But nevertheless, when I'm not successful, It can also be quite pleasurable.

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'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

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All desires and egoism will have to be banished from the being.

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Life is not only merriment,It is desire and determination.

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He who desires to see the living God face-to-face should not seek him in the empty, firmament of his mind, but in human love.

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The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.

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Negative desires can cause no evil if you do not allow yourself to be seduced by them.

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The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.

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Boredom is desire seeking desire.

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Renunciation - non-resistance - non-destructiveness - are the ideals to be attained through less and less worldliness, less and less resistance, less and less destructiveness. Keep the ideal in view and work towards it. None can live in the world without resistance, without destruction, without desire. The world has not come to that state yet when the ideal can be realised in society.

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A nonviolent man cannot desire embarrassment.

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However rich or elevated, a name less something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune.

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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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The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

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To wait on God is to live a life of desire toward Him, delight in Him, dependence on Him, and devotedness to Him.

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My beliefs and my desires have changed. They have come into alignment with who he is and who he created you to be. And that's a wonderful thing and that's what we will always offer at Exodus.

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I will not choose what many men desire, Because I will not jump with common spirits And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.

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Lessen selfishness and restrain desires.

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You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?

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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.

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