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My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man by his entire development, his desires, and striving can only have been destined by fate to lead our people into a brighter future.


Alfred Jodl


#been #brighter #brighter future #confidence #desires

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.


Rebecca West


#desires #duty #itself #loyal #master

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.


Mortimer Adler


#conjugal #desires #disappeared #even #friendship

I wanted a settled life and a shocking one. Think of Van Gogh, cypress trees and church spires under a sky of writhing snakes. I was my father's daughter. I wanted to be loved by someone like my tough judicious mother and I wanted to run screaming through the headlights with a bottle in my hand. That was the family curse. We tended to nurse flocks of undisciplined wishes that collided and canceled each other out. The curse implied that if we didn't learn to train our desires in one direction or another we were likely to end up with nothing. Look at my father and mother today. I married in my early twenties. When that went to pieces I loved a woman. At both of those times and at other times, too, I believed I had focused my impulses and embarked on a long victory over my own confusion. Now, in my late thirties, I knew less than ever about what I wanted. In place of youth's belief in change I had begun to feel a nervous embarrassment that ticked inside me like a clock. I'd never meant to get this far in such an unfastened condition. (p.142)


Michael Cunningham


#desires #glbtq #indecision #romance #change

All non liberated souls when pass from one life to another it carries with itself the Karmic body which is invisible and subtle. This Karmic body depending on the karma energies it carries, exhibits the occult powers.It first attracts the material particles to form the physical body. The senses, speech and mind are formed according to the ability of the soul bonded by Karmic connections. It may be one sense organism to five sense organism with mind or without mind. Even one can be born as hellish beings or celestial beings. Mind includes desires, emotions, intelligence, thinking etc. According to Jains the soul in pure form has infiniteness in terms of its knowledge and power. These faculties are obstructed for its exhibition due to Karmic bondage.


Virchand Raghavji Gandhi


#bondage #celestial #desires #hellish #jainism

It became clear that Keisha Blake could not start something without finishing it. If she climbed onto the boundary wall of Caldwell, she was compelled to walk the entire wall, no matter the obstructions in her path (beer cans, branches). This compulsion, applied to other fields, manifested itself as "intelligence." Every unknown word sent her to a dictionary--in search of something like "completion"--and every book led to another book, a process that, of course, could never be completed. This route through early life gave her no small portion of joy, and, indeed, it seemed at first that her desires and her capacities were basically aligned. She wanted to read things--could not resist wanting to read things--and reading was easily done, and relatively inexpensive. On the other hand, that she should receive any praise for such reflexive habits baffled the girl, for she knew herself to be fantastically stupid about many things. Wasn't it possible that what others mistook for intelligence was in fact only a sort of mutation of the will?


Zadie Smith


#compulsion #desires #finishing #intelligence #joy

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.


James Russell Lowell


#educate #expand #horizon #intelligence #wants

Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible.


Norman Angell


#courses #desires #every #every nation #impossible

Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires.


Charles Bent


#desires #god #man #means #much

Relinquishing selfish wants, one is free to allow others to travel their own paths under the will of God. (18)


Prem Prakash


#freedom #god #god-s-will #selfishness #spiritual-paths






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