The desire to be thought clever often prevents a man from becoming so. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“The desire to be desire-less is but another desire. The thought that, because this desire purports to be spiritual, it is superior… — Joel Kramer Copy Share Image
Picture in your mind the able, earnest, useful person you desire to be, and the thought you hold is hourly transforming you… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
“Whenever you go out-of-doors, draw the chin in, carry the crown of the head high, and fill the lungs to the utmost;… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
[I]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
He who is drawn to something desirable does not desire to have it as a thought but as a thing. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
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