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"Important thing to realize is the world is not here to make me happy. When you don't demand that the situation, or place, or person should make you happy, then actually the situation, place, or person is quite satisfying."
"To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense."
"Until we learn that other lives are equally grievable and have an equal demand on us to be grieved - especially the ones that we've helped to eliminate - I'm not sure we'll really be on the way to overcoming the problem of dehumanization."
"It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education."
"The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell."
"A society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken somebody else’s life is simply immoral."
"If the milk industry can make their product seem sexy and increase consumer demand, there must be hope for music."
"Every nation has the right to demand proper treatment and no country should violate the territory of any other country."
"Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?"
"Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty."
"Selfishness is like a disease that suffocates our capacity to love. While love asks us to deny ourselves for the sake of another, selfishness demands we put ourselves first at their expense. When we choose to be self-centered, we become less kind and content—more needy, sensitive, and demanding. More unsatisfiable. Moodiness and impatience, laziness and irresponsibility, are only selfishness in disguise."
"To make the future demands courage. It demands work. But it also demands faith."
"Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason."
"Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can't control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it."
"There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you."
"One must not love oneself so much, as to avoid getting involved in the risks of life that history demands of us, and those that fend off danger will lose their lives."
"Love is amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all."
"Here's the major problem with going on strike for more money: You cannot get rich by demand!"
"Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract."
"What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most."
