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“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.”

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

“Provide yourself with such work for your hands as can be done, if possible, both during the day and at night, so that you are not a burden to anyone, and indeed can give to others, as St. Paul the Apostle advises (cf. I Thess. 2:9; Eph. 4:28). In this manner you will overcome the demon of listlessness and drive away all the desires suggested by the enemy; for the demon of listlessness takes advantage of idleness. 'Every idle man is full of desires' (Prov. 13:4 LXX).”

Ifs Men Giving Done Hands Christian Desire Night Enemy Advantage Overcoming Burden Demon Orthodox Idle Idleness Advise Apostles Orthodox Christian Cfs Apostle Paul

Author:Evagrius Ponticus

“Your mind is turbulent because you're filled with desires, frustrations. You want too many things. You are afraid of too many things. It is necessary to overcome both attraction and repulsion to still the mind.”

Want Mind Stills Desire Overcoming Filled Attraction Frustration Repulsion Attraction And Repulsion

Author:Frederick Lenz

“All human beings have an innate desire to overcome suffering, to find happiness. Training the mind to think differently, through meditation, is one important way to avoid suffering and be happy.”

Thinking Way Mind Humans Important Desire Suffering Human Beings Meditation Training Overcoming Innate Finding Happiness Training The Mind

Author:Dalai Lama

“A man, at least, is free; he can explore every passion, every land, overcome obstacles, taste the most distant pleasures. But a woman is continually thwarted. Inert and pliant at the same time, she must struggle against both the softness of her flesh and subjection to the law. Her will, like the veil tied to her hat by a string, flutters with every breeze; there is always some desire luring her on, some convention holding her back.”

Men Law Desire Passion Women Pleasure Struggle Land Taste Overcoming Obstacles Flesh Hats Strings Conventions Tied Veils Breeze Softness Subjection

Book:Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“To demand of strength that it should not express itself as strength, that it should not be a desire to overcome, a desire to throw down, a desire to become master, a thirst for enemies and resistances and triumphs, is just as absurd as to demand of weakness that it should express itself as strength.”

Should Desire Enemy Masters Demand Weakness Overcoming Resistance Absurd Triumph Thirst

Book:On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo

Source: On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo

“I am ever Thine. If Thou cast me out, who shall take me in? If Thou disregard me, who shall look on me? More canst Thou remit, than I commit; more canst Thou spare, than I offend. Let not hurtful pleasures overcome me; at the least let not any perverse habit overwhelm me; From evil and unlawful desires; From vain, hurtful, impure imaginations; from the illusions of evil spirits; from pollutions of soul and of body; Good Lord, deliver me.”

Ifs Looks Soul Body Spirit Desire Evil Imagination Pleasure Lord Habit Illusion Overcoming Casts Commit Vain Take Me Pollution Spares Disregard Hurtful Unlawful Evil Spirits

Author:Lancelot Andrewes

“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.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Shameless actually good since it gives a kind of freedom. We consider the old, functionless shame destructive. Today, if you have a strong sense of shame you also have a strong desire to overcome it. And that's when you can write.”

Ifs Giving Writing Kind Today Desire Strong Overcoming Shame Destructive Shameless Strong Desire

Author:Karl Ove Knausgard

“A man may be buoyed up by the efflation of his wild desires to brave any imaginable peril; but he cannot calmly see one he loves braving the same peril; simply because he cannot feel within turn that which prompts another. He sees the danger, and feels not the power that is to overcome it.”

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Author:George Henry Lewes

“Desire and determination must overcome disappointment.”

Desire Determination Overcoming Disappointment

Author:Walter Alston

“It is my judgment that any man or woman can do more to conform to the laws of God in one year in this life than they could do in ten years when they are dead. The spirit can only repent and change, and then the battle has to go forward with the flesh afterwards. It is much easier to overcome and serve the Lord when both flesh and spirit are combined as one. This is the time when men are more pliable and susceptible. We will find when we are dead every desire, every feeling will be greatly intensified. When clay is pliable it is much easier to change than when it gets hard and sets.”

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Author:Melvin J. Ballard