Top 1200 Earthly Desires Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Real democracy means that no group or faction or leader can impose their will, their ideology, their religion, their desires on anyone else.

A boy of to-day is affected by every change of tone and gust of opinion, so that he lies even when he desires to speak the truth.

Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.

Happiness is self-generated as the mind becomes still. As we become involved with the desires of the world, we lose that centering, that stillness.

I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.

Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality.

Kids on a team are like flowers in a bouquet, there is always one that wants to face a different way than the arranger desires.

From the first opening of our eyes, it is the light that attracts us. We clutch aimlessly with our baby fingers at the gossamer-motes in the sunbeam, and we die reaching out after an ineffable blending of earthly and heavenly beauty which we shall never fully comprehend.

There was human goodness in the world, she thought-all caught up with desires and dreams, regrets and bitterness, resentments and power, but it was there.

The skeptic, being a lover of his kind, desires to cure by speech, as best he can, the self-conceit and rashness of the dogmatists.

Happiness does not lie in getting people and things outside of you lined up exactly to suit your desires.

By now you must have accepted the fact that your religion , in fact, none of the Earthly religions, truly knew what the afterlife would be. All made guesses, and then established these as articles of faith . Though, in a sense, some were near the mark, if you accept their revelations as symbolic .

The Lord would so cleanse the motive and desires of our hearts that we will seek but one thing only, and that is, His glory.

I salute my desires with a bow. were it not for them to come and play mind would be empty just like me.

The man who is free from credulity, but knows the uncreated, who has cut all ties, removed all temptations, renounced all desires, he is the greatest of men.

Prayer did not come easily to me for I always feel that prayer is a silent things, and opening of the heart. To ask for earthly benefits, to reel out a list of requirements and expect them to be supplied is not prayer. It is putting God in the same category as an intelligent grocer.

He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

This world is moving around like a wheel. That indeed is the last birth in which one gets completely rid of all desires.

I am so tired - so tired of being of being whirled on through all these phases of my life, in which nothing abides by me, no creature, no place; it is like the circle in which the victims of earthly passion eddy continually.

God would never inspire me with desires which cannot be realized; so in spite of my littleness, I can hope to be a saint.

The dream arises from a part of the mind unknown to us, but none the less important, and is concerned with the desires for the approaching day.

If you give your soul up to anything earthly, whether it be the wealth, or the honours, or the pleasures of this world, you might as well hunt after the mirage of the desert or try to collect the mists of the morning, or to store up for yourself the clouds of the sky, for all these things are passing away.

An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.

The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.

I feel like there's something in me that desires to express myself even more and not be so afraid of a solo endeavor.

Most software has a tiny essence that justifies its existence, everything after that is wants and desires mistaken for needs and necessities.

If any earthly institution or custom conflicts with God's will, it is your Christian duty to oppose it. You must never allow the transitory, evanescent demands of man-made institutions to take precedence over the eternal demands of the Almighty God.

It seems to me that he has never loved, that he has only imagined that he has loved, that there has been no real love on his part. I even think that he is incapable of love; he is too much occupied with other thoughts and ideas to become strongly attached to anyone earthly.

I feel I've been faithful to my convictions and my desires. I've taken small, firm steps and I try to do things as beautiful and artistically as I can.

My life is ending, I know that well, but every day that is left me I feel how my earthly life is in touch with a new infinite, unknown, but approaching life, the nearness of which sets my soul quivering with rapture, my mind glowing and my heart weeping with joy.

I've learned over the years that the writing is smarter and far larger than the writer and his or her own desires for it.

Real fulfillment, for the man who allows absolutely free rein to his desires, and who much dominate everything, lies in hatred.

There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for future desires.

Prayer is the only adequate way to multiply our efforts fast enough to reap the harvest God desires.

I've always had real trouble knowing what my actual desires and goals are. I've just been dragged along by fate.

The first thing a man must do if he desires to be used in the Lord's work, is to make an unconditional surrender of himself to God.

Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future.

We were sent to this country by the President, who desires to promote the welfare of Japan, and are quite different from the ambassadors of other countries.

If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts.

Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season.

It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.

Men become utilitarian out of fear of the alternative the chaos of tangled or tepid desires, of rootlessness and boredom.

The extra luggage of indiscriminate dreams, desires and attachments will make your life's journey miserable.

There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.

Plot is merely the mechanism by which your character is forced up against her deepest fears and desires.

You can never get rich, or start the creative power into action, by sending out unformed longings and vague desires.

Sexualization is imposed from the outside as opposed to sexuality, an understanding of the body's responses and desires and ability to communicate that, cultivated from within.

Fixate your love on Him, be obedient to God's word, and don't seek the glory of this world. In doing these things, God will exalt you in this earth and you won't have to sacrifice your soul for earthly crowns that will fade.

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

As in many other industries, the luxury fashion consumer increasingly desires to put a personal stamp on important purchases.

There is nothing more important in life than giving. Tolerance is forged when people look beyond their own desires

If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?

The Metropolis strives to reach a mythical point where the world is completely fabricated by man, so that it absolutely coincides with his desires.

I succeeded in using my charms like a weapon; I learned to play with other's hearts and to master my own desires.

In earthly life, a person can conceal whether evil or good is active in his soul. After death, this is no longer possible. The spirit form presents after death the physiognomical expression of what the person was on earth.

To love someone means that you sometimes are fulfilled the most by putting thier deepest desires above your own.

Ah! two desires toss about The poet's feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.

That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the history of the world.