#greatest

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

#desire #even #evil #force #great

One of the greatest satisfactions one can ever have, comes from the knowledge that he can do some one thing superlatively well. ↗

— Hortense Odlum

#ever #greatest #knowledge #one thing #satisfactions

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man. ↗

— Ben Okri

#always #bit #bore #challenging #completely

The greatest religions convert the world through stories. ↗

— Ben Okri

#greatest #religions #stories #through #world

Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking. ↗

— Edward Dahlberg

#dead #fruit #get #greatest #likely

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries. ↗

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

#centuries #century #claim #greatest #greatest privilege

But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn't do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs - Early Days - which is what it is - and Latter Days. ↗

— Jimmy Page

#cd #cds #compromise #days #early

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented. ↗

— Arnold Palmer

#deceptively #doubt #endlessly #ever #frustrates

Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy. ↗

— Gilbert Parker

#friend #greatest #man #memory #worst

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile. ↗

— Plato

#conquer #conquered #first #greatest #most