Best desire & oneself Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“What a powerful thing to know: That one's own desires are mappable onto strangers; that what one finds in oneself will most certainly be found in The Other.”

Knows Desire Found Powerful Oneself Stranger

Book:The Brain-Dead Megaphone

Source: The Brain-Dead Megaphone

“It is short-sighted, not to say stupid, in the correct desire to be relevant as Christian artists in an unchristian age, to pick up the secular fashion of the immediate generation before us and immerse oneself in that as your tradition. That's why Christian artists so often seem to be a generation late.”

Seems Age Christian Desire Artist Culture Christianity Generations Fashion Stupid Late Picks Tradition Oneself Relevant Secular Short Sighted Unchristian

Author:Calvin Seerveld

“Pride is an established conviction of one’s own paramount worth in some particular respect, while vanity is the desire of rousing such a conviction in others, and it is generally accompanied by the secret hope of ultimately coming to the same conviction oneself. Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.”

Desire Secret Particular Pride Direct Oneself Conviction Appreciation Vanity Paramount

Book:Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer

Source: Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer

“If you desire to know or learn anything to your advantage, then take delight in being unknown and unregarded. A true understanding and humble estimate of oneself is the highest and most valuable of all lessons.”

Ifs Knows Desire Understanding Lessons Highest Advantage Oneself Delight Humble Valuable Obscurity True Understanding

Author:Thomas a Kempis

“There is no greater sin than desire, No greater curse than discontent, No greater misfortune than wanting something for oneself. Therefore he who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.”

Knows Enough Desire Sin Greater Oneself Curse Misfortunes Discontent Tao Te Ching Leadership Enough Is Enough

Book:道德经

Source: 道德经

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

Desire Loses Oneself

Book:THE TRUE BELIEVER

Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER

“The real purpose of the martial arts must be to purge oneself of petty ambitions and desire, to obtain control of one’s own character.”

Art Real Character Desire Purpose Ambition Oneself Martial Arts Petty

Author:Morihei Ueshiba

“In a man like Friedrich von Schlegel the courage to be as an individual self produced complete neglect of participation, but it also produced, in reaction to the emptiness of this self-affirmation, the desire to return to a collective. Schlegel, and with him many extreme individualists in the last hundred years, became Roman Catholics. The courage to be as oneself broke down, and one turned to an institutional embodiment of the courage to be as a part.”

“In my youth and comparative inexperience I had always regarded the yearning and pangs of love as the worst torture that could afflict the human heart. At this moment, however, I began to realize that there was another and perhaps grimmer torture than that of longing and desiring: that of being loved against one's will and of being unable to defend oneself against the urgency of another's passion; of seeing another human being seared by the flame of her desire and of having to look impotently, lacking the power, the capacity, the strength to pluck her from the flames.”

“Sexual integrity means honestly recognizing our own impulses and desires and honoring them, whether or not we choose to act on them. If we value integrity, we must also value diversity in sexual expression and orientation, recognizing that there is no one truth, or one way, that fits everyone.Sexuality is sacred because through it we make a connection with another self - but it is misused and perverted when it becomes an arena of power-over, a means of treating another - or oneself - as an object.”

Ifs Way Mean Self Desire Values Objects Expression Fit Integrity Diversity Connections Sacred Oneself Sexuality Honestly One Way Impulse Recognizing Arena Orientation Misused

Book:Dreaming the Dark

Source: Dreaming the Dark

“Freedom is within oneself. But to get beyond the thoughts and desires requires power.”

Desire Oneself Mysticism Personal Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires, and who can doubt that the interest we have in admitting or denying the reality of the Judgement to come determines the faith of most men in accordance with their hopes and fears.”

Men Believe Hard Reality Desire Interest Doubt Oneself Determine Judgement Admitting Hopes And Fears

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“To look for total satisfaction in oneself is a futile endeavor. Since everything changes from moment to moment, where can self and where can satisfaction be found? Everybody is unhappy simply because of unfilled desire. Everybody is looking for something that isn't available.”

Looks Self Moments Desire Found Oneself Satisfaction Available Unhappy Endeavor Things Change

Author:Ayya Khema

“The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up.”

Desire Levels History Draws Raises Oneself Thirst

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“While criticism or fear of punishment may restrain us from doing wrong, it does not make us wish to do right. Disregarding this simple fact is the great error into which parents and educators fall when they rely on these negative means of correction. The only effective discipline is self-discipline, motivated by the inner desire to act meritoriously in order to do well in one's own eyes, according to one's own values, so that one may feel good about oneself may "have a good conscience.”

“A desire to succeed in politics is propelled by these two seemingly contradictory forces, which frequently change places and sometimes coexist: to save others and to save oneself.”

Two Sometimes Desire Politics Force Succeed Oneself Contradictory Coexist Desire To Succeed

Author:Madeleine M. Kunin

“The desire not to be impinged upon, to be left to oneself, has been the markof high civilisation both on the part of individuals and communities.”

Has Beens Desire Individual Left Community Oneself Civilisation

Author:Isaiah Berlin

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