"Work, especially good work, becomes easy only when desire has learnt to discipline itself."
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"I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living."
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"We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure."
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"Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by what he can desire."
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"To every man who faces life with real desire to do his part in everything, I appeal for a study of the Bible."
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"The inventor can't do it all, you've got to change people. We have an enormous capacity to invent super-machinery. But our desire to install the device is weak. Human inertia is the problem, not invention. Something in man makes him resist change."
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"I have only one desire, and that is the desire for solitude-to disappear into God, to be submerged in His peace, to be lost in the secret of His Face."
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"I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires."
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"Desire is action. In the inner world, your desires bring about their own fulfillment, effortlessly. That inner world, and the exterior one, intersect and interweave. They only appear separate. In the physical world, time may have to elapse, or whatever. Conditions may have to change, or whatever, but the desire will bring about the proper results. The feeling of effortlessness is what is important."
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"No man is rich who is unsatisfied, but who wants nothing possess his heart's desire."
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"Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love"
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"The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom."
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"For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudences of the brawling world reach you no more."
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"Be a function of your values rather than a function of the impulse or desire of any given moment."
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"All your restlessness is out of your desire for stillness Just desire restlessly, then, love will fill and still you. All your unhealthiness is out of your desire for health, Just abandon health, then, even poison will heal you."
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"There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger."
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"For without you, I swear, the town Has become like a prison to me. Distraction and the mountain And the desert, all I desire."
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"There is no greater offence than harbouring desires. There is no greater disaster than discontent. There is no greater misfortune than wanting more."
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"There is no greater crime than desire."
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"The True Person benefits yet expects no reward, does the work and moves on. There is no desire to be considered better than others."
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