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“The fundamental misunderstanding of humanity is believing that we can achieve all our desires without limitation.”

Believe Desire Humanity Achieve Fundamentals Limitation Misunderstanding

Author:Momofuku Ando

“Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.”

Self Action Desire Sacrifice Limitation Rejects You Choose Self Sacrifice

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“As you go into light for longer and longer periods, as you progress in your meditation practice, you transform, you become illumined, you overcome all limitation, all sorrow, and all pain. You learn not to be bound by desire, and eventually you transcend death itself.”

Light Pain Desire Practice Meditation Progress Buddhism Periods Sorrow Overcoming Bounds Limitation Meditation Practice

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What nonsense it is, this desire to be without limitations, this wish always to be seen in the most flattering light. We are anxious, not because we think so little of ourselves, but because we think so much of ourselves. We are anxious, not that we may appear in the worst light, but that we may not appear in the best light. Anxiety is born of self-consciousness, and it is alleviated to the exact extent that we can drop consciousness of the self.”

Thinking May Littles Self Light Desire Wish Born Consciousness Worst Anxiety Limitation Nonsense Anxious Flattering Self Consciousness

Book:Advice from a Failure

Source: Advice from a Failure

“Desire is insatiable not because the goods of the world are too few, too uniform, or too bland. Desire burns through the goods of the world, even though these goods are not false or intrinsically unsatisfactory.... Desire shatters the economy of things; it disputes the tyranny of objects. IT longs for the great emptiness, which is beauty and love without limitation.”

World Desire Economy Objects And Love Tyranny Limitation Emptiness Goods Uniforms Disputes Insatiable Bland Beauty And Love

Book:The Wounding and Healing of Desire: Weaving Heaven and Earth

Source: The Wounding and Healing of Desire: Weaving Heaven and Earth

“Balancing hopes, desires and an appreciating of the possibilities with a clear-eyed assessment of the limitations: that is the art of choosing.”

Art Desire Clear Possibility Appreciate Limitation Assessment

Author:Sheena Iyengar

“We may exist in all universes, but 'hear' only one because of our limitations, the valve of our desires, our practical, physical needs. All is vibration, with nothing vibrating across no distance whatsoever. All is music. A universe, a world, is just one long difficult song. The difference between worlds is the difference between songs.”

World Needs May Long Desire Song Universe Difficult Differences Distance Practicals Limitation Just One Vibrations Valve

Author:Greg Bear