“Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive to happiness with the diminution of possession, and he that teaches another to long for what he never shall obtain is no less an enemy to his quiet than if he had robbed him of part of his patrimony” IfsMenLongDesireWishPoorEnemyTeachRichQuietPossessionEvery ManEnjoymentProportionDestructiveConsumerismOverconsumptionRich Or PoorEnlargementPatrimony Book:Works: With an Essay on His Life and Genius Source: Works: With an Essay on His Life and Genius
“claiming that the destructive practice of mountaintop removal mining, blowing the tops off mountains to get at the coal beneath, performs the "necessary" function of creating flat land for development To tear treasure out of the bowels of the land was their desire, with no more moral purpose at the back of it than there is in burglars breaking into a safe.” DesirePurposeMoralPracticeLandTearsDevelopmentSafeMountainCreatingFunctionTreasureDestructiveFlatsCoalRemovalMiningBowelsBurglars Author:Joseph Conrad
“Some come to a teacher for power. They still have all the desires, angers and jealousies of an unevolved person. Consequently, they become destructive both to themselves and to others.” PersonsStillsDesireTeacherBuddhismDestructiveRama Author:Frederick Lenz
“Shameless actually good since it gives a kind of freedom. We consider the old, functionless shame destructive. Today, if you have a strong sense of shame you also have a strong desire to overcome it. And that's when you can write.” IfsGivingWritingKindTodayDesireStrongOvercomingShameDestructiveShamelessStrong Desire Author:Karl Ove Knausgard