Dalai Lama Quotes, Hands Quotes, Desire Quotes

If there are sound reasons or bases for the points you demand, then there is no need for violence. On the other hand, when there is no sound reason that concessions should be made to you but mainly your own desire, then reason cannot work and you have to rely on force. Thus using force is not a sign of strength but rather a sign of weakness.

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I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.

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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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Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.

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So proud she was to die It made us all ashamed That what we cherished, so unknown To her desire seemed. So satisfied to go Where none of us should be, Immediately, that anguish stooped Almost to jealousy.

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Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

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I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.

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I understood . . . that those who desired salvation should act like the trustee who, though having control over great possessions, regards not an iota of them as his own.

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Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.

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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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Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.

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Longing, it may be, is the gift no other gift supplies.

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It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty, for yourselves, and not for me. I desire they shall be constitutionally preserved.

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It is madness to risk losing what you need in pursuing what you simply 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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There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.

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One of the glories of society is to have created woman where Nature had made only a female; to have created a continuity of desire where Nature thought only of perpetuating the species; and, in fine, to have invented love.

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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.

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Wonder is the beginning of the desire to know the beautiful and the good.

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'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

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