Own Desires Quotes

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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. — Susan B. Anthony
Every man's path is for himself; let him accomplish his own desires that he may thus be able to rise above them to the eternal… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this… — Elizabeth Hardwick
Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern educational theorists, because I think that… — Bertrand Russell
We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as definitive and has as its highest value one's own ego and… — Pope Benedict XVI
There is nothing more important in life than giving. Tolerance is forged when people look beyond their own desires — Nelson Mandela
Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Harmony comes gradually to a pilot and his plane. The wing does not want so much to fly true as to tug at the hands… — Beryl Markham
We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own… — Pope Benedict XVI
To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality. — Ayn Rand
For original ideas to come about, you have to let them percolate under the level of consciousness in a place where we have no way… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Paul said in the second epistle...the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine...they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit… — Jan Karon
From what may anyone be saved? Only from themselves! That is, their individual hell. They dig it with their own desires. — Edgar Cayce
Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations. — Aulus Persius Flaccus
The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibilit y for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our… — Edmund Burke
I succeeded in using my charms like a weapon; I learned to play with other's hearts and to master my own desires. — Shan Sa
Whenever you permit yourself to think what persons, things, conditions, or circumstances may suggest, you are not following what you want to think. You are… — Christian D. Larson
The discipline in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority. — Bertrand Russell
To understand suffering, you must go beyond pain and pleasure. Your own desires and fears prevent you from understanding and thereby helping others. In reality… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
You don't come to live here unless the delusion of a reality shaped around your own desires isn't a strong aspect of your personality. A… — Zadie Smith

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