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Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
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It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation,…
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An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.
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The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by…
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But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.
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Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition,…
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The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person…
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In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.
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Prayer is life passionately wanting, wishing, desiring God's triumph. Prayer is life striving and toiling everywhere and always for that ultimate victory.
— G. Campbell Morgan
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Practice not wanting, desiring, judging, doing, fighting, knowing. Practice just being. Everything will fall into place.
— James Frey
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I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them.
— Eleanora Duse
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Instead of complaining at his lot, a contented man is thankful that his condition and circumstances are no worse than they are.…
— Arthur W. Pink
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Surrendering means non-desiring.
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Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and…
— Napoleon Hill
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Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or…
— Walter Raleigh
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Each child is poisoned by the society through teaching him ambition. Ambition is a poison far more dangerous than any alcohol can…
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Desire means the way to go out; desire is the path that leads you out. If your mind is still desiring, you…
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The more desires you have, the more misery you will create for yourself. Misery is a consequence of desiring - and you…
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The ego is goal-oriented. The ego is hankering for the future. It can hanker even for the other life, it can hanker…
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Man is busy desiring to find something which only he can do so that his ego acquires importance.
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