“ The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. ”
- Jonathan Swift- Copy
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“ One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life. ”
- Alexander A. Bogomoletz- Copy
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“ My wish isn't to mean everything to everyone but something to someone. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life. ”
- Thomas a Kempis- Copy
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“ Man wants but little, nor that little long; How soon must he resign his very dust, Which frugal nature lent him for an hour! ”
- Edward Young- Copy
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“ Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long," 'Tis not with me exactly so; But 'tis so in the song. My wants are many, and, if told, Would muster many a score; And were each wish a mint of gold, I still should long for more. ”
- John Quincy Adams- Copy
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“ The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition. ”
- W. H. Auden- Copy
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“ The Father and His Two Daughters A man had two daughters, the one married to a gardener, and the other to a tile-maker. After a time he went to the daughter who had married the gardener, and inquired how she was and how all things went with her. She said, All things are prospering with me, and I have only one wish, that there may be a heavy fall of rain, in order that the plants may be well watered… ”
- Aesop- Copy
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“ Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish. ”
- Sophocles- Copy
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“ Live amongst people in such a manner that if you die they weep over you and if you are alive they crave for your company. ”
- Hazrat Ali Ibn e Abi Talib- Copy
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“ There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life happiness, freedom and peace of mind - are always attained by giving them to someone else. ”
- Peyton Conway March- Copy
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“ It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, and that craves wary walking. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself. ”
- Anais Nin- Copy
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“ The surrounding that householders crave are glorified autobiographies. ”
- T. H. Gibblings- Copy
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“ There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life — happiness, freedom and peace of mind — are always attained by giving them to someone else. ”
- General Peyton C. March- Copy
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“ Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave. ”
- Pericles- Copy
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“ What every genuine philosopher craves most is praise — although the philosophers generally call it "recognition"! ”
- William James- Copy
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“ What our deepest self craves is not mere enjoyment, but some supreme purpose that will enlist all our powers and give unity and direction to our life. ”
- Henry J. Golding- Copy
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