#desire

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil. ↗

— Swami Sivananda

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Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire provide plenty of stories to drive the point home. ↗

— Tony Snow

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An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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Desire is the essence of a man. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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Desire is the very essence of man. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled. ↗

— Charles Stanley

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The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity. ↗

— John Strachan

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According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for. ↗

— Allen Tate

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