A. B. Yehoshua Quotes, Expression Quotes, Desire Quotes

Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.

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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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The individual feels the futility of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in nature and in the world of thought.

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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

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Renunciation - non-resistance - non-destructiveness - are the ideals to be attained through less and less worldliness, less and less resistance, less and less destructiveness. Keep the ideal in view and work towards it. None can live in the world without resistance, without destruction, without desire. The world has not come to that state yet when the ideal can be realised in society.

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We must recognize that all beings want the same thing we want. This is the way to achieve a true understanding, unfettered by artificial consideration.

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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

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Our credulity is a part of the imperfection of our natures. It is inherent in us to desire to generalize, when we ought, on the contrary, to guard ourselves very carefully from this tendency.

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

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The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up.

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

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The knowledge which we seek, the answers for which we yearn, and the strength which we desire today to meet the challenges of a complex and changing world can be ours when we willingly obey the Lord’s commandments.

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A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.

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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

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It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.

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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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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.

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Let reason govern desire.

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There is no greater crime than desire.

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For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudences of the brawling world reach you no more.

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