#desires

When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou has passed through. ↗

— Ieyasu Tokugawa

#arise #days #desires #extremity #heart

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#embrace #few #manifest #reduce #selfishness

We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#different #discover #live #needs #ourselves

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

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My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to the Lord, to whom alone I looked for help in the dangers before me. ↗

— John Woolman

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The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself. ↗

— William Godwin

#desires #diligent #himself #love #loves

Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego. ↗

— Taylor Hackford

#clashes #culture #desires #ego #everyone

You know that we have a great variety of ways to gratify our own desires. ↗

— Elias Hicks

#gratify #great #know #our #own

And if we are in this state, if we had an eternity of probation, what reason have we to suppose that we should profit by it - if we had ever so long a time to chose for ourselves we should pursue our own will, to gratify our carnal I desires. ↗

— Elias Hicks

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The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause of action. ↗

— Raymond Holliwell

#cause #coming #desires #heart #inner