Anton Chekhov Quotes, Wish Quotes, Desire Quotes

Formerly, when I would feel a desire to understand someone, or myself, I would take into consideration not actions, in which everything is relative, but wishes. Tell me what you want and I'll tell you who you are.

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

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Desire only God, and your heart will be satisfied.

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True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.

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

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Lessen selfishness and restrain desires.

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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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Those that abide in Christ as their heart's desire shall have, through Christ, their heart's desire.

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Sometimes, whether a desire is excessive or negative depends on the circumstances or society in which you live in.

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If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired for the sake of this), and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else (for at that rate the process would go on to infinity, so that our desire would be empty and vain), clearly this must be the good and the chief good.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Desire Quotes , Would Be Quotes

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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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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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 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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It is madness to risk losing what you need in pursuing what you simply desire.

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

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

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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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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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We live alone in our cluttered psyches, possessed by our entrenched beliefs, our fatuous desires, our endless contradictions - and like it or not we have to put up with this in one another.

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