#sir

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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It desirable to add one or two facts bearing on the domestic political aspects of the problem. ↗

— Dillon Anderson

#aspects #bearing #desirable #domestic #facts

You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#change #desires #different #dynamic #life

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. ↗

— Susan B. Anthony

#because #coincides #desires #distrust #god

Wonder is the desire for knowledge. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#knowledge #wonder

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. ↗

— Aristotle

#causes #chance #compulsions #desire #habit

Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds. ↗

— Saint Teresa of Avila

#care #comforts #defect #desires #finds

Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need. ↗

— Gaston Bachelard

#desire #man #need

Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger. ↗

— Abu Bakr

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The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#also #arbitrary #desire #domestic #felt