What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
Michel FoucaultBut the thing which had made him fall for her, fall properly, was the way she seemed so calm and so quiet and so sad. Surrounded by noisy bankers showing off, and their variously pushy or beady or anxious or competitive wives, she seemed to be from somewhere else; a place where people carried their own burdens; a grander and realer and more honourable place. Roger didn't know that Matya spent a lot of that evening thinking about home, but he could tell that she was thinking about something, and it was that other thing which, for him, did it.
John LanchesterTags: love home desire calmness quietness fancy crushes
A valise without straps. A hole without a key. She had a German mouth, French ears, Russian ass. Cunt international. When the flag waved it was red all the way back to the throat. You entered on the Boulevard Jules-Ferry and came out at the Porte de la Villette. You dropped
your sweetbreads into the tumbrils – red tumbrils with two wheels, naturally. At the confluence of the Ourcq and Marne, where the water sluices through the dikes and lies like glass under the
bridges.
Rushing into action, you fail.
Trying to grasp things, you lose them.
Forcing a project to completion,
you ruin what was almost ripe.
Therefore the Master takes action
by letting things take their course.
He remains as calm at the end
as at the beginning.
He has nothing,
thus has nothing to lose.
What he desires is non-desire;
what he learns is to unlearn.
He simply reminds people
of who they have always been.
He cares about nothing but the Tao.
Thus he can care for all things.
Tags: calm completion action desire ruin fail tao lose learn care grasp ripe forcing
Each one of us is the architect of his own fate; and he is unfortunate indeed who will try to build himself without the inspiration of God, without realizing that he grows from within, not from without.
David O. McKayTags: success self-esteem desire
But you don't always get what you want;,you get what you get
Anne LamottTags: life acceptance desire wish want get
There is no limit to how good you can get in pursuit of perfection.
Sachin Kumar PuliTags: knowledge desire perfection knowledge-wisdom hardwork
You start getting satisfied you stop getting better.
Sachin Kumar PuliTags: work growth satisfaction desire restriction capabilities
Keep your standards even when everyone around you is losing theirs.
Habeeb AkandeTags: motivational inspirational goals success ambition determination desire expectations dedication drive standards aim-high high-standards
I am a selfish, conceited, impudent little animal, it is true, but, after all, I am only one grand conglomeration of Wanting…
Mary MacLaneTags: selfishness desire
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