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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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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Upon the whole, therefore, she found what had been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself.

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Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?

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I have zero desire to be in the limelight.

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Prayer is a sign of repentance, a desire to become better, purer.

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The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him "better.".

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I think slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.

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

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Desire only God, and your heart will be satisfied.

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We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.

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"Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all good things will be added unto you." Follow God and you shall have whatever you desire.

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My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire.

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That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire; / Before you know what is left to be desired; / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind.

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One who, while seeking happiness, oppresses with violence other living beings who also desire happinesss, will not find happiness hereafter.

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Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.

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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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Following your heart's desire will lead you in the direction your spirit wants to go.

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I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as the grass.

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When anything is in the presence of evil, but is not as yet evil, the presence of good arouses the desire of good in that thing; but the presence of evil, which makes a thing evil, takes away the desire and friendship of the good; for that which was once both good and evil has now become evil only, and the good has no friendship with evil.

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