“Women are concerned about the purity and welfare of the community. ? While the father's love was related to mundane desires, the mother's love was related to spiritual concerns.” SpiritualMotherDesireFatherCommunityConcernConcernedWelfareRelatedPurityMundaneMother's Love Author:Sathya Sai Baba
“The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents. It is a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community. It is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods.” MenNeedsMindChildrenBodyDesireGoalPresidentCommunityCitiesQualityBeautyTalentDemandConcernedHungerPresidentialGoodsQuantityCommerceGreat Society Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“Art is not concerned with the meditation about what is and how it came to be. That is a task for knowledge. Knowledge is born of the desire to know, Art derives from the necessity to communicate and to announce.” KnowsArtDesireBornMeditationCommunicationArt IsConcernedTasksCommunicate Book:Gabo on Gabo: Texts and Interviews Source: Gabo on Gabo: Texts and Interviews
“This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. Our most persistent and spectacular efforts are concerned not with the preservation of what we are but with the building up of an imaginary conception of ourselves in the opinion of others. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter.” MenDesireEffortOpinionBuildingTheoryConcernedPraiseInsightConceptionImaginaryShelterPreservationPersistentImperativesSpectacularBuilding Up Author:Eric Hoffer
“The preacher who is concerned with gaining a reputation, rising in his profession, is always in bondage. The itch for bigness is a dangerous thing. It has made a castaway of many a man whom God once richly blessed. A man should desire to be neither larger nor smaller than pleases God. Better than that, he should not bother at all about how large or how small but rather how faithful he shall be.” MenShouldMadeDesireDangerousPleaseConcernedBlessedProfessionReputationBotherFaithfulRisingPreacherBondageDangerous ThingsCastaway Author:Vance Havner
“New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.... Always before I had felt like a person, an individual, hopeful that I could mold my life according to some desire of my own. But here in New York I was ignorant, insignificant, unimportant--one in millions whose destiny concerned no one. New York did not even know of my existence. Nor did it care.” KnowsWorldPersonsCareDesireIndividualFeltMy OwnExistenceDestinyMillionsNew YorkStrangeConcernedIgnorantHopefulInsignificantMoldUnimportantStrange World Book:Daughter of Earth Source: Daughter of Earth