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“If you make provision for the desires of the flesh and bear a grudge against your neighbor on account of something transitory, you worship the creature instead of the Creator.”

Ifs Christian Desire Bears Creatures Worship Accounts Creator Neighbor Flesh Orthodox Provision Grudge Transitory

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“All true artists, bear within themselves a deeply rooted and often unconscious desire for transformation.”

Desire Artist Bears Transformation Unconscious Rooted True Artists

Book:To the director and playwright

Source: To the director and playwright

“I have been so great a lover: filled my days So proudly with the splendour of Love's praise, The pain, the calm, and the astonishment, Desire illimitable, and silent content, And all dear names men use, to cheat despair, For the perplexed and viewless streams that bear Our hearts at random down the dark of life.”

Men Life Heart Has Beens Use Pain Desire Names Dark Bears Lovers Despair Praise Filled Silent Calm Dear Streams Cheat Astonishment Splendour Perplexed

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)

“it so often happens that, when men are convinced that they have to die, a desire to bear themselves well and to leave life's stage with dignity conquers all other sensations.”

Men Wells Happens Desire Dies Stage Military Bears Dignity Convinced Conquer Sensations

Book:Savrola: a tale of the revolution in Laurania

Source: Savrola: a tale of the revolution in Laurania

“Joy, grief, desire or fear, whate'er the name The passion bears, its influence is the same; Where things exceed your hope or fall below, You stare, look blank, grow numb from top to toe.”

Looks Joy Desire Fall Passion Names Grows Grief Influence Bears Staring Blank Toes Exceed Numb

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)

“Atlas, we read in ancient song, Was so exceeding tall and strong, He bore the skies upon his back, Just as the pedler does his pack; But, as the pedler overpress'd Unloads upon a stall to rest, Or, when he can no longer stand, Desires a friend to lend a hand, So Atlas, lest the ponderous spheres Should sink, and fall about his ears, Got Hercules to bear the pile, That he might sit and rest awhile.”

Should Doe Hands Might Desire Song Fall Strong Sky Bears Ears Ancient Tall Spheres Bores Packs Atlas

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)

“To bear the cross means that you refrain from doing what you have the power to do. You are qualified to fulfill your desire, yet you refrain from doing so. A person like this is the strongest person. The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has the power to do.”

Mean Persons Able Desire Bears Crosses Strongest Qualified Refrain

Author:Watchman Nee

“I desire a violent, domineering, fearless, and ferocious upcoming generation. It must be able to bear pain. It must show no signs whatsoever of weakness or tenderness. The free and magnificent predator must once again glint from their eyes.”

Shows Eye Able Pain Desire Generations Bears Weakness Violent Fearless Tenderness Magnificent Predator

Author:Adolf Hitler

“Every desire bears its death in its very gratification. Curiosity languishes under repeated stimulants, and novelties cease to excite and surprise, until at length we cannot wonder even at a miracle.”

Desire Wonder Bears Miracle Surprise Curiosity Cease Length Gratification Novelty Stimulants Languish

Author:Washington Irving

“Minds are cluttered from the age of six with the values of others-values which bear little relation to their own private capacities, needs and desires.”

Needs Mind Littles Age Desire Values Bears Six Capacity Relation

Author:Marya Mannes

“Any refusal to recognize reality, for any reason whatever, has disastrous consequences. There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to think. Don't ignore your own desires.... Don't sacrifice them. Examine their cause. There is a limit to how much you should have to bear.”

Thinking Should Reason Reality Desire Evil Causes Sacrifice Bears Limits Consequence Should Have Refusal Evil Thoughts

Book:Ayn Rand Novel Collection

Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection

“People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterwards repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom and are left even farther from Reality than before. Your desire for the illusory is a wing, by means of which a seeker might ascend to Reality. When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off; you become lame and that fantasy flees. Preserve the wing and don't indulge such lust, so that the wing of desire may bear you to Paradise. People fancy they are enjoying themselves, but they are really tearing out their wings for the sake of an illusion.”

Source: The Pocket Rumi