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“Happiness is self-generated as the mind becomes still. As we become involved with the desires of the world, we lose that centering, that stillness.”

World Mind Stills Self Happiness Desire Loses Buddhism Involved Stillness Centering

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I have always used the burqa because men are using the burqa in the name of culture and religion to take freedom from women. Women are alive, they have their own wishes and desires, but all the time they have to sacrifice that. They are a kind of skeleton, which doesn't have muscles. They're just breathing, like a kind of puppet that barely exists. If women spoke for their rights, they were beaten by their husbands. So they don't have a voice. They lose their voices and their wishes and their happiness.”

Ifs Men Kind Used Desire Culture Names Wish Voice Loses Alive Rights Sacrifice Husband Breathing Muscles Spokes Beaten Men Women Puppets Skeletons Burqa Culture And Religion

Author:Malina Suliman

“The desire to belong is partly a desire to lose oneself.”

Desire Loses Oneself

Book:THE TRUE BELIEVER

Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER

“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

“Never value anything as profitable to thyself which shall compel thee to break thy promise, to lose thy self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything which needs walls and curtains.”

Men Needs Self Desire Values Hate Loses Break Atheism Wall Promise Thee Curse Self Respect Suspects Curtains Thyself Profitable Hypocrite

Book:沉思錄:讀了一百年還要再讀一百年的不朽鉅著

Source: 沉思錄:讀了一百年還要再讀一百年的不朽鉅著

“I feel I should not be ... so at the mercy of people's regard. And yet - it is the artist's desire for communication too; without the answering voice you get so numb; you lose faith in your powers to communicate.”

People Feels Should Desire Artist Voice Loses Communication Mercy Regard Communicate Numb

Book:War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944

Source: War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944

“At last, in the gray dawn of Civilization the fire in the Soul dies down. The dwindling powers rise to one more, half-successful, effort of creation, and produce the Classicism that is common to all dying Cultures. The soul thinks once again, and in Romanticism looks back piteously to its childhood; then finally, weary, reluctant, cold, it loses its desire to be, and, as in Imperial Rome, wishes itself out of the overlong daylight and back in the darkness of protomysticism in the womb of the mother in the grave.”

Source: The decline of the West

“I lose hope when the desire for life awakens within me; but I regain it whenever the longing for death comes upon me.”

Desire Loses Longing Longing For Death

Author:Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski

“Love is at the root of all healthy discipline. The desire to be loved is a powerful motivation for children to behave in ways thatgive their parents pleasure rather than displeasure. it may even be our own long-ago fear of losing our parents' love that now sometimes makes us uneasy about setting and maintaining limits. We're afraid we'll lose the love of our children when we don't let them have their way.”

Source: You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor