A Quote by Franz Kafka

No one can crave what truly harms him. — © Franz Kafka
No one can crave what truly harms him.

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People consider the harms they inflict to be justified and forgettable, and the harms they suffer to be unprovoked and grievous.
Praising children’s intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance.
We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves
Jesus Christ who was of the race of David, who was the Son of Mary, who was truly born and ate and drank, was truly persecuted under Pontius Pilate, was truly crucified and died in the sight of those in heaven and on earth and those under the earth; who moreover was truly raised from the dead, His Father having raised Him, who in the like fashion will so raise us also who believe on Him.
I love working alone. Crave it, in fact. I feel truly alive then.
There is an essential difference between someone who harms a child on purpose and someone who harms a child by accident during combat in civilian territory.
When you love someone more than he loves you, you'll do anything to switch the scales. You dress the way you think he'd like you to dress. You pick up his favorite figures of expression. You tell yourself that if you re-create yourself in his image, then he'll crave you in the same way you crave him.
Well, it was most likely too late; there would not be time for me to flagellate myself for every dishonorable deed in that list, nor any chance to make good the harms I’d done. Minor harms, to be sure, in the scheme of things; but large enough to regret.
When you're a child, you crave formal recognition; you crave ceremony, celebration, certification of proof.
I'm not vegetarian. I eat what I crave, but most of the time I don't crave meat.
I crave time in Yosemite like I crave food and water.
People crave a conspiracy for the same reason they crave a god.
We don't “crave” animal-based meat, dairy, and eggs, but we do crave fat, salt, flavor, texture, and familiarity.
And finally remember that nothing harms him who is really a citizen, which does not harm the state; nor yet does anything harm the state which does not harm law [order]; and of these things which are called misfortunes not one harms law. What then does not harm law does not harm either state or citizen.
If wealth come, beware of him, the smooth, false friend! There is treachery in his proffered hand; his tongue is eloquent to tempt; lust of many harms is lurking in his eye; he hath a hollow heart; use him cautiously.
Chinese no longer crave so much for food and accommodation, but they do crave democracy. I stand by that. I don't know which model China will follow.
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