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The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where "ordinary" life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort.

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For if you know what you want, and will be content with it, you can be trusted. But if you do not know, your desires are limitless and no one can tell how to deal with you. Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.

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I'm also combining my love of outdoors with my desire to help others.

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One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.

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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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It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.

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The enthusiast always finds the master, the masters, whom he seeks. Always genius seeks genius, desires nothing so much as to be a pupil and to find those who can lend it aid to perfect itself.

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Existence alone had never been enough for him; he had always wanted more. Perhaps it was only from the force of his desires that he had regarded himself as a man to whom more was permitted than to others.

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I have spent my life resisting the desire to end it.

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We grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It's very materialistic. It's full of desire and luxury goods.

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The law is reason unaffected by desire.

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'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

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It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse.

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Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

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There was a desire to see me being nasty and horrible, and of course that's not really me

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The Tao is infinite, eternal. Why is it eternal? It was never born; thus it can never die. Why is it infinite? It has no desires for itself; thus it is present for all beings. The Master stays behind; that is why she is ahead. She is detached from all things; that is why she is one with them. Because she has let go of herself, she is perfectly fulfilled.

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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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No one can desire the love of God without first knowing human love.

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Wonder implies the desire to learn.

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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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