#desires

You are one corrupt, perfectly white flower, yearning for its own reflection, in the calm waters ↗

— Die

#corrupt #desires #flower #manga #reflection

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. ↗

— Aristotle

#conquers #count #desires #hardest #him

Whatever it is your heart desires, please go for it, it's yours to have. ↗

— Gloria Estefan

#go #go for it #heart #please #whatever

Where consumption is both conspicuous and competitive, humanity will never run out of new wishes. All the while, industry creates new desires that are marketed, in the great fashion paradox, as both novelty and need. ↗

— James Buchan

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I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires. ↗

— John Cleese

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I consider no man honest who does not observe towards other nations the principles which he desires to be observed towards his own: and therefore I will not interfere in your domestic questions. ↗

— Lajos Kossuth

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Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible. ↗

— Norman Angell

#courses #desires #every #every nation #impossible

Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires. ↗

— Charles Bent

#desires #god #man #means #much

Relinquishing selfish wants, one is free to allow others to travel their own paths under the will of God. (18) ↗

— Prem Prakash

#freedom #god #god-s-will #selfishness #spiritual-paths

I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever. ↗

— Hugh Hefner

#also #become #childhood #come #comfortable