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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

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The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success).

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The fewer the desires, the more peace.

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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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The desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom.

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They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.

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Free from passion and desire, you have stripped the thorns from the stem.

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Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired.

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If you have the desire and passion to do something, and it's within God's will, you will achieve it.

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To the person who desires nothing and does not get entangled in desires, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of beauty and sublimity.

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Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.

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There is no greater crime than desire.

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

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Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

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Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.

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I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.

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

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That 'simple desire' to share something meant that we could enter the world of language without words, where everything is always clear and there is no danger of being misinterpreted.

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Fear begins and ends with the desire to be secure; inward and outward security, with the desire to be certain, to have permanency. The continuity of permanence is sought in every direction, in virtue, in relationship, in action, in experience, in knowledge, in outward and inward things. To find security and be secure is the everlasting cry. It is this insistent demand that breeds fear.

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