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“There can be no richer man or woman than the individual who has found his or her labor of love. Personal fulfillment through the virtue of work is the highest form of desire. Work is the conduit between the supply and the demand of all human needs, the forerunner of human progress, and the medium by which the imagination is given the wings of action. A labor of love is exalted because it provides joy and self-expression to those who perform it.”

Source: What Makes the Great Great: Strategies for Extraordinary Achievement

“Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. Learn to become wise. Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy. The real spiritual progress of the meditator is measured by the extent to which they achieve inner tranquility and freedom from desire.”

Giving Mind Real Spiritual Desire Wise Progress Achieve Duty Giving Up Temptation Deception Tranquility Rise Above Spiritual Progress

Author:Sivananda

“Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species.”

Mean Desire Progress Movement Independence Species

Book:God in the Dock

Source: God in the Dock

“It has long been my desire to be a little worm in the fair apple of Progress.”

Littles Long Desire Progress Fairs Apples Worms

Author:Sherwood Anderson

“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

“Those who desire to remain intoxicated by Reality do not require artificial intoxicants. Indulging in false things will only increase falsity, for every direction is indeed infinite. Those who desire the truly genuine Thing proceed of themselves with great intensity so as to progress in their sadhana.”

Reality Desire Progress Increase Infinite Genuine Intensity Artificial Intoxicated Falsity

Author:Anandamayi Ma

“a little of the ready reliance on the expert comes from the desire to waive responsibillity, comes from the endless evasion of life instead of an honest facing of it. The expert is to many what the priest is, someone who knows absolutely and can tell us what to do. The king, the priest, the expert, have one after the other had our allegiance, but so far as we put any of them in the place of ourselves, we have not a sound society and neither individual nor general progress.”

Knows Littles Desire Individual Sound Progress Honest Ready Kings Endless Experts Priests Reliance Allegiance Evasion

Author:Mary Parker Follett

“Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.”

Should Government Desire Progress Benefits Criticism Objectives Reform Sincere Constructive Constructive Criticism

Author:Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

“Our people have proven their desire for continuing with reforms. We complete the march today with those who have an honest patriotic desire for more progress and reform.”

People Today Desire Progress Honest Reform March Patriotic Continuing Proven

Author:Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

“We can't just stop. We're not rocks-progress, migration, motion is... modernity. It's ANIMATE, it's what living things do. We desire. Even if all we desire is stillness, it's still desire for.”

Ifs Stills Desire Progress Rocks Stillness Living Things Modernity Migration

Book:Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition

Source: Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition

“We can trace back our existence almost to a point. Former time presents us with trains of thoughts gradually diminishing to nothing. But our ideas of futurity are perpetually expanding. Our desires and our hopes, even when modified by our fears, seem to grasp at immensity. This alone would be sufficient to prove the progressiveness of our nature, and that this little earth is but a point from which we start toward a perfection of being.”

Littles Ideas Seems Would Be Earth Desire Existence Progress Prove Perfection Train Former Sufficient Expanding Immensity Train Of Thought

Author:Humphry Davy

“Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.”

Way Stills Desire Progress Objects Former Latter Felicity

Book:The Moral and Political Works To which is Prefixed the Autors Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself ... Illustr. by the Ed. - London 1750

Source: The Moral and Political Works To which is Prefixed the Autors Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself ... Illustr. by the Ed. - London 1750