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“It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and ought to be chosen. But wealth does this in only a portion of the actual cases. Elsewhere the desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption. There must be thousands of conjunctures in which a wealth-bound man must be a slave, whilst a man for whom poverty has no terrors becomes a freeman.”

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience

“It is helpful to think of people as having two fundamental motivations: the desire to see ourselves as honest, good people, and the desire to gain the benefits that come from cheating - on our taxes or on the football field.”

People Thinking Two Desire Motivation Honest Fields Football Taxes Benefits Gains Fundamentals Helpful Cheating Good People Football Field

Author:Dan Ariely

“There are various methods by which you may achieve ignominy and shame. By murdering a large and respected family in cold blood and afterward depositing their bodies in the water companies' reservoir, you will gain much unpopularity in the neighborhood of your crime, and even robbing a church will get you cordially disliked, especially by the vicar. But if you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human creature can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it.”

Source: Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

“The world that seemed so various and new, well, it does contract. One's burning desire to investigate human behavior, and to make, or imply, statements about it, does fall off. And so one does find that early works are full of energy and also full of vulgarity, crudity, and incompetence, and later works are more carefully finished, and in that sense better literary products. But . . . there's often a freshness that is missing in later works--for every gain there's a loss. I think it evens out in that way.”

“Facilitative attitudes (and skills) can help a therapist gain entry into the group Freedom from a desire to control the outcome, and respect for the capacity of the group, and skills in releasing individual expression Openness to all attitudes no matter how extreme or unrealistic they may seem Acceptance of the problems experienced by the group where they are clearly defined as issues Allowance of the freedom of choices in direction, either for the group or individuals particularly in the near future”

“Our whole life can go on in observation of the laws of nature, if we gain dominion over our desires from the beginning and if we do not kill, by various means of a perverse art, the human offspring, born according to the designs of divine providence; for these women who, in order to hide their immorality, use abortive drugs which expel the child completely dead, abort at the same time their own human feelings.”

“A person who wills to have a good will, already has a good will--in its rudiments. There is solid satisfaction in knowing that the mere desire to get out of an old habit is a material advance upon the condition of submergence in that habit. The longest step toward cleanliness is made when one gains--nothing but dissatisfaction with dirt.”

Persons Made Desire Steps Knowing Conditions Materials Habit Gains Mere Satisfaction Dirt Good Will Dissatisfaction Cleanliness Old Habits

Book:The Meaning of God in Human Experience

Source: The Meaning of God in Human Experience

“a caring that gains only when losing; an obsessed desire to be bound, for love , in jail ; a capitulation to the one you've conquered yourself; a devotion to your own assassin every single day.”

Desire Losing Gains Bounds Caring Devotion Obsessed Jail Assassins Capitulation

Book:Selected Sonnets: A Bilingual Edition

Source: Selected Sonnets: A Bilingual Edition

“As you go into the light, you will gain a more profound happiness. That happiness will free you from the desire-aversion cycle.”

Light Desire Gains Profound Concentration Cycles Aversion

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have either one.”

Giving Desire Order Security Giving Up Gains 4th Of July Security And Freedom Funny 4th Of July

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“Money destroys human roots wherever it is able to penetrate, by turning desire for gain into the sole motive. It easily manages to outweigh all other motives, because the effort it demands of the mind is so very much less. Nothing is so clear and so simple as a row of figures.”

Mind Humans Able Desire Simple Effort Clear Figures Demand Gains Roots Manage Motive Sole Penetrate

Book:The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind

Source: The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind

“Desire for gain and fear of loss burn like fire.”

Desire Fear Loss Fire Gains Greed

Book:The Hero: Myth, Image, Symbol

Source: The Hero: Myth, Image, Symbol

“Avarice, or the desire of gain, is a universal passion which operates at all times, at all places, and upon all persons.”

Persons Desire Passion Gains Universal Greed All Time Avarice

Book:Selected essays

Source: Selected essays

“We all enter the world little plastic beings, with so much natural force, perhaps, but for the rest--blank; and the world tells uswhat we are to be, and shapes us by the ends it sets before us. To you it says--Work; and to us it says--Seem! To you it says--As you approximate to man's highest ideal of God, as your arm is strong and your knowledge great, and the power to labour is with you, so you shall gain all that human heart desires. To us it says--Strength shall not help you, nor knowledge, nor labour. You shall gain what men gain, but by other means. And so the world makes men and women.”

Source: The Story of an African Farm: A Novel

“The Scoutmaster guides the boy in the spirit of an older brother... He has simply to be a boy-man, that is: (1) He must have the boy spirit in him: and must be able to place himself in the right plane with his boys as a first step. (2) He must realise the needs, outlooks and desires of the different ages of boy life. (3) He must deal with the individual boy rather than with the mass. (4) He then needs to promote a corporate spirit among his individuals to gain the best results.”