Showing posts with label Desires. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Desires. Show all posts

Our Thoughts Our Destiny

“Our destiny changes with our thoughts; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thoughts correspond with our desires.”
--Orison Swett Marden

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Act Ill

“It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.”
--John Stuart Mill

Poor Desire

“The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.”
--Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The Hardest Victory

“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than he who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.”
--Aristotle

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Comfort Kills

“Comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, then a master. And then it becomes a tamer, and with a hook and whip it makes puppets of your larger desires.”
--Kahlil Gibran