Desire
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Education
is an ornament in prosperity and refuge in adversity.
-- Aristotle
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People
say "I want peace." If you remove I (ego), and your
want (desire), you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba
"We
read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires.
We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from
the announcement of a new product, what we have all
along wanted without really knowing it."
-- Daniel J. Boorstin
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If
you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the
same time cultivate the fields to produce more
bread; otherwise there will be no peace.
-- Norman Borlaug
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True
peacefulness comes from abandoning the illustion that
satisfying desires brings pleasure.
-- Joan Borysenko
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If
we desire peace, we must prepare for peace. The
most important thing is to build a culture of
peace.
-- Anwarul Chowdhury
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Do
not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.
-- Confucius
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In
order to succeed, your desire for success
should be greater than your fear of failure.
-- Bill Cosby
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“If
one's life is simple, contentment has to come.
Simplicity is extremely important for happiness.
Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what
you have, is very vital: satisfaction with just
enough food, clothing, and shelter to protect
yourself from the elements. And finally, there
is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states
of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.”
- The Dalai
Lama
Brute
force, no matter how strongly applied, can never
subdue the basic human desire for freedom.
-- Dalai Lama
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Simplicity
is extremely important for happiness. Having few
desires, feeling satisfied with what you have,
is very vital...” - The
Dalai Lama
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Time
and memory are true artists;
they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.
-- John Dewey
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A
human being is a part of the whole, called by
us, "Universe," a part limited in time and space.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings
as something separated from the rest -- a kind
of optical delusion of his consciousness. This
delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting
us to our personal desires and to affection for
a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be
to free ourselves from this prison by widening
our circle of compassion to embrace all living
creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but
the striving for such achievement is in itself
a part of the liberation and a foundation for
inner security -- Albert
Einstein
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…
we believe in the vocation of communion and participation
of our people, who day to day awaken to their political
conscience and express their desire for change and
profound democratization of society. A change based
on justice, built with love, and which will bring
us the most anxiously desired fruits of peace.
-- Adolfo Perez
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It is much easier to suppress a first desire
than to satisfy those that follow.
-- Benjamin
Franklin
If
you desire many things, many things will seem
few.
-- Benjamin
Franklin
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It
is impossible for people who have given their
heart to seeking forgiveness not to think of forgiving
others. Just as they desire to be forgiven, they
also desire to forgive.
-- M. Fethullah
Gülen
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This
is a very important practice. Live your daily
life in a way that you never lose yourself. When
you are carried away with your worries, fears,
cravings, anger, and desire, you run away from
yourself and you lose yourself. The practice is
always to go back to oneself.
-- Thich Nhat Hanh
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Desire
is the starting point of all achievement,
not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire
which transcends everything.
-- Napoleon Hill
Create
a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin
at once,
whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.
Napoleon Hill
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Fortunately,
the war has brought with it not alone a stark
realization of what another war would mean to
the world, but as well the creation of an international
agency through which the nations of the world
can, if they so desire, make peace a living reality.
-- Cordell Hull
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Active
citizenship begins with an envisioning of the
desired outcome and a conscious application of
spiritual principles.
--
Dennis Kucinich
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Manifest
plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have
few desires.
-- Lao-Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration
that if at the end, when I come to lay down the
reins of power, I have lost every other friend
on earth, I shall at least have one friend left,
and that friend shall be down inside me.
-- Abraham Lincoln
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A
life is either all spiritual or not spiritual
at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life
is shaped by the end you live for. You are made
in the image of what you desire.
-- Thomas Merton
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"I
have learned to seek my happiness by limiting
my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy
them."
-- John Stuart Mill
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"Throughout
the world today there is a gowing awareness of the
failings of the Western model of development and
a corresponding desire to look for more human-scale,
ecological ways of living.
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We
have an obligation and a responsibility to be
investing in our students and our schools. We
must make sure that people who have the grades,
the desire and the will, but not the money, can
still get the best education possible.
-- Barack Obama
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"Nuclear disarmament is not just an ardent
desire of the people, as expressed in many resolutions
of the United Nations. It is a legal commitment
... for the sake of humanity - we must get rid
of all nuclear weapons."
-- Joseph Rotblat
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Those who forget good and evil and seek only
to know the facts are more likely to achieve
good than those who view the world through the
distorting medium of their own desires. --
Bertrand
Russell
If
there were in the world today any large number
of people who desired their own happiness more
than they desired the unhappiness of others,
we could have paradise in a few years. -- Bertrand
Russell
“No
man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings
of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine
desire to impart to them what he believes to
be of value.” -- Bertrand
Russell
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What
a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is
an index into his desires -- desires of which he himself
is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which
goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely,
and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse
to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered
something which affords a reason for acting in accordance
to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest
evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.
-- Bertrand Russell
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"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You
imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine
and at last you create what you will."
-- George Bernard
Shaw
“Experience
fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.”
-- George Bernard
Shaw
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Our
worldview is colored by one of three inner desires:
some are driven by a desire to experience life
to its fullest; some are driven by a desire to
make life's experience more full for all; and
some see these desires are fully the same.
-- Robert Alan Silverstein
The
pursuit of happiness is a guarantee that the laws
are meant to be fair and provide an equal playing
field for all members of society, so that through
hard work and creative enterprise, all law-abiding
citizens are free to strive to attain the wants
and desires they believe will bring them happiness.
--
Robert Alan Silverstein
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The
way to gain a good reputation, is to endeavor to be
what you desire to appear.
-- Socrates
Kindness
is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things
even if we do not get anything in return. It is the
joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from
this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we
think, say, want and do.
-- Emmanuel Swedenborg
In
an industrial society which confuses work and productivity,
the necessity of producing has always been an enemy
of the desire to create.
-- Raoul Vaneigem
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We
desire peace - and that is why we have never resorted
to physical force. We crave for justice - and
that is why we are so persistent in the struggle
for our rights. We seek freedom of convictions
- and that is why we have never attempted to enslave
man's conscience, nor shall we ever attempt to
do so. We are fighting for the right of the working
people to association and for the dignity of human
labor. We respect the dignity and the rights of
every man and every nation. The path to a brighter
future of the world leads through honest reconciliation
of the conflicting interests and not through hatred
and bloodshed. To follow that path means to enhance
the moral power of the all-embracing idea of human
solidarity.
-- Lech Walesa
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"I awake each morning torn between a desire to
save the world and a desire to savour the world.
This makes it hard to plan my day."
~ E. B. White
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This
is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first
century -- solidarity with the weak, the persecuted,
the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is
expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing
meaning to a community in which all members will
define themselves not by their own identity but
by that of others.
-- Elie Wiesel
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Nothing
liberates our greatness
like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
-- Marianne
Williamson
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