Only God is capable of telling us what our rights and needs are. You have to surrender that right to Him.
Joni Eareckson TadaHer grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home.
F. Scott FitzgeraldTag: love relationships desires rules restraint
He finally understood...the thing that the people during the Paleolitic Age, freaking 20,000 to 8,000 B.C., were after when they came up with mythologies to do with flight—a desire for the magic of the sky, for something bigger than their feet treading the earth.
Maud CaseyTag: understanding desires gods mythology
There is only what you want and what happens. There is only grabbing on and holding tight in the darkness.
Lauren OliverTag: darkness desires holding-on
One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.
Friedrich NietzscheTo want is to have a weakness.
Margaret AtwoodTag: desires
We've had enough." He took back the report and jammed it under his arm. "We've had a bellyful, in fact."
"And like everyone who's had enough," said Control as Alleline noisily left the room, "he wants more.
Tag: ambition desires greed dissatisfaction saturation
Those that much covet are with gain so fond,
For what they have not, that which they possess
They scatter and unloose it from their bond,
And so, by hoping more, they have but less;
Or, gaining more, the profit of excess
Is but to surfeit, and such griefs sustain,
That they prove bankrupt in this poor-rich gain.
Tag: excess desires greed possessions entitlement gain insatiability
Sometimes it seems that everybody in the world is in favor of democracy, just as long as it gives them the result they want.
Jack LessenberryChristianity set itself the goal of fulfilling man’s unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignored his attainable desires. By promising man eternal life, it deprived him of temporal life, by teaching him to trust in God’s help it took away his trust in his own powers; by giving him faith in a better life in heaven, it destroyed his faith in a better life on earth and his striving to attain such a life. Christianity gave man what his imagination desires, but for that very reason failed to give him what he really and truly desires.
Ludwig FeuerbachTag: imagination life truth reason power heaven goal trust desires earth failure destruction desire eternal-life temporal temporal-life unattainable-desire
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