Jane Austen Quotes, Reflection Quotes, Desire Quotes

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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Lost are we, and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire.

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[The seers call him wise] whose every attempt is free, without any desire for gain, without any selfishness.

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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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Upon the whole, therefore, she found what had been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself.

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Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.

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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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And keep you in the rear of your affection, Out of the shot and danger of desire, The chariest maid is prodigal enough If she unmasks her beauty to the moon.

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

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But I have no desire for fame and power anymore. I crawled out of the swamp and I'm not crawling back in.

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No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise.

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For if you know what you want, and will be content with it, you can be trusted. But if you do not know, your desires are limitless and no one can tell how to deal with you. Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.

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I have zero desire to be in the limelight.

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Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?

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He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire.

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The Tao is infinite, eternal. Why is it eternal? It was never born; thus it can never die. Why is it infinite? It has no desires for itself; thus it is present for all beings. The Master stays behind; that is why she is ahead. She is detached from all things; that is why she is one with them. Because she has let go of herself, she is perfectly fulfilled.

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All desires and egoism will have to be banished from the being.

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

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The end of desire is the end of sorrow.

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...Everything that is, desires to be. As we act, we unfold our being. Enjoyment naturally follows, for a thing desired always brings delight.

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