#desires

Despite Japan's desires and efforts, unfortunate differences in the ways that Japan, England, the United States, and China understood circumstances, together with misunderstandings of attitudes, made it impossible for the parties to agree. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#attitudes #china #circumstances #desires #despite

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

— Ieyasu Tokugawa

#arise #days #desires #extremity #heart

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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It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#desires #destiny #feeling #gives #mission

Most of us are consumed with our own thoughts and desires and are not always thinking about what other people may want. This is not necessarily being egocentric; it is just being human. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#always #being #being human #consumed #desires

He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart, he put other different desires. ↗

— Sitting Bull

#desires #different #heart #other #plans

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#children #decision #desires #encourage #give

Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy. ↗

— Swami Sivananda

#desire #desires #give #happy #nothing

He finally understood...the thing that the people during the Paleolitic Age, freaking 20,000 to 8,000 B.C., were after when they came up with mythologies to do with flight—a desire for the magic of the sky, for something bigger than their feet treading the earth. ↗

— Maud Casey

#gods #mythology #understanding #age