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“When man desires to live as long as a tree, his diet will be fruit.”

Men Long Desire Tree Fruit Diets Desire To Live

Author:Brigham Young

“I'm sure everyone feels sorry for the individual who has fallen by the wayside or who can't keep up in our competitive society, but my own compassion goes beyond that to those millions of unsung men and women, who get up every morning, send the kids to school, go to work, try to keep up the payments on their house, pay exorbitant taxes to make possible compassion for the less fortunate, and as a result have to sacrifice many of their own desires and dreams and hopes. Government owes them something better than always finding a new way to make them share the fruit of their toils with others.”

“I've wandered over many lands, and reaped withal no fruit, I've laid my pride of rank aside, and pressed my baffled suit, At stranger boards, like shameless crow, I've eaten bitter bread, But fierce Desire, that raging fire, still clamours to be fed.”

Stills Desire Fire Land Pride Fruit Stranger Rage Bread Bitter Suits Boards Feds Fierce Crow Shameless Baffled Clamour

Author:Bhartrhari

“Ignorance, vulnerability, fear, anger, and desire are expressions of the infinite potential of your buddha nature. There's nothing inherently wrong or right with making such choices. The fruit of Buddhist practice is simply the recognition that these and other mental afflictions are nothing more or less than choices available to us because our real nature is infinite in scope.”

Real Desire Choices Practice Ignorance Expression Buddhism Infinite Fruit Available Buddhist Recognition Vulnerability Affliction Scope Buddha Nature Infinite Potential Wrong Or Right

Book:The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness

Source: The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness

“What earnest worker, with hand and brain for the benefit of his fellowmen, could desire a more pleasing recognition of his usefulness than the monument of a tree, ever growing, ever blooming, and ever bearing wholesome fruit?”

Hands Desire Brain Growing Tree Benefits Fruit Workers Recognition Earnest Monument Usefulness Blooming

Author:Washington Irving

“Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree.”

Desire Tree Morality Fruit Former Latter Orange Orange Trees

Author:Philibert Joseph Roux

“Humility is a fertile soil where spirituality grows and produces the fruit of inspiration to know what to do. It gives access to divine power to accomplish what must be done. An individual motivated by a desire for praise or recognition will not qualify to be taught by the Spirit. An individual who is arrogant or who lets his or her emotions influence decisions will not be powerfully led by the Spirit.”