Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Mind Quotes, Desire Quotes

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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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 feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.

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Poor people are as much in danger from an inordinate desire towards the wealth of the world as rich from an inordinate delight in it.

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She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

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'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

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Let reason govern desire.

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When we have the Holy Spirit we have all that is needed to be all that God desires us to be.

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

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A slave- holder, who has decided to abolish slavery, does not consult his slaves whether they desire freedom or not.

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

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The will is infinite and the execution confin'd, the desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit.

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I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.

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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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How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires.

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

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Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.

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We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

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