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“The world appears solid to most people. It is filled with their pain, their desires, their private ecstasies, their expectations. They are that world - nothing glows.”

People World Inspirational Pain Desire Buddhism Expectations Filled Ecstasy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“So many people feel that they have to wait for certain experiences in order to feel the emotions they desire. For instance, they don't give themselves permission to feel loved or happy or confident unless a particular set of expectations is met. I'm here to tell you that you can feel any way you choose at any moment in time.”

People Way Giving Feels Moments Motivational Desire Certain Order Waiting Emotion Particular Mets Expectations Instance You Choose Permission Moments In Time

Book:Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial

Source: Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial

“A lot of people feel trapped by circumstance, by the expectations of others or the perception that they need a lot of money. They would like to have a different direction in their lives, but they're held back by fear or desires that are incompatible with that freedom.”

People Needs Feels Different Desire Circumstances Perception Expectations Trapped Lots Of Money Different Directions

Author:Roz Savage

“In our pursuit of the things of this world, we usually prevent enjoyment, by expectation; we anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures, by delightful forethoughts of them; so that when we come to possess them, they do not answer the expectation, nor satisfy the desires which were raised about them, and they vanish into nothing.”

World Heart Desire Answers Pleasure This World Expectations Raised Pursuit Enjoyment Anticipation Sweetness Delightful Worldly Anticipate Forethought Worldly Pleasures

Book:The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson containing two hundred sermons and discourses, on several occasions ...

Source: The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson containing two hundred sermons and discourses, on several occasions ...

“Tonality itself - with its process of instilling expectations and subsequently withholding promised fulfillment until climax - is the principal musical means during the period from 1600 to 1900 for arousing and channeling desire.”

Mean Desire Process Periods Expectations Musical Fulfillment Principal Channeling Climax Withholding

Book:Reading Music: Selected Essays

Source: Reading Music: Selected Essays

“(Because) the notion of absolute truth is difficult to sustain outside the context of religion, ethical conduct is not something we engage in because it is somehow right in itself but because, like ourselves, all others desire to be happy and to avoid suffering. Given that this is a natural disposition, shared by all, it follows that each individual has a right to pursue this goal. Accordingly, I suggest that one of the things which determines whether an act is ethical or not is its effect on others' experience or expectation of happiness.”

Desire Suffering Individual Given Difficult Goal Natural Effects Truth Is Expectations Ethics Absolutes Notion Determine Pursue Ethical Disposition Absolute Truth

Author:Dalai Lama

“It is generally allowed, that no man ever found the happiness of possession proportionate to that expectation which incited his desire, and invigorated his pursuit; nor has any man found the evils of life so formidable in reality, as they were described to him by his own imagination; every species of distress brings with it some peculiar supports, some unforeseen means of resisting, or powers of enduring.”

Men Mean Reality Desire Evil Found Imagination Support Expectations Species Endure Possession Pursuit Peculiar Distress Resisting Formidable Unforeseen

Book:The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler

Source: The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler

“That prayer which does not succeed in moderating our wishes--in changing the passionate desire into still submission, the anxious, tumultuous expectation into silent surrender--is no true prayer, and proves that we have not the spirit of true prayer.”

Doe Stills Spirit Desire Wish Prayer Succeed Prove Expectations Silent Passionate Surrender Anxious Submission Passionate Desire

Book:Sermons ...

Source: Sermons ...

“Some persons hold that, while it is proper for the lawgiver to encourage and exhort men to virtue on moral grounds, in the expectation that those who have had a virtuous moral upbringing will respond, yet he is bound to impose chastisement and penalties on the disobedient and ill-conditioned, and to banish the incorrigible out of the state altogether. For (they argue) although the virtuous man, who guides his life by moral ideals, will be obedient to reason, the base, whose desires are fixed on pleasure, must be chastised by pain, like a beast of burden.”

“Make the expectations lively enough, and action will follow.”

Enough Action Desire Expectations Lively

Author:Mason Cooley

“. . . this life is a perpetual chequer-work of good and evil, pleasure and pain. When in possession of what we desire, we are only so much the nearer losing it; and when at a distance from it, we live in expectation of enjoying it again.”

Pain Life Is Desire Evil Enjoy Pleasure Losing Expectations Distance Possession This Life Good And Evil Perpetual Pain And Pleasure

Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne