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“The mind is a machine that is constantly asking: What would I prefer? Close your eyes, refuse to move, and watch what your mind does. What it does is become discontent with that-which-is. A desire arises, you satisfy that desire, and another arises in its place.”

Mind Doe Eye Moving Desire Watches Machines Asking Refuse Arise Discontent

Book:The Brain-Dead Megaphone

Source: The Brain-Dead Megaphone

“Virtue is the nursing-mother of all human pleasures, who, in rendering them just, renders them also pure and permanent; in moderating them, keeps them in breath and appetite; in interdicting those which she herself refuses, whets our desires to those that she allows; and, like a kind and liberal mother, abundantly allows all that nature requires, even to satiety, if not to lassitude.”

Ifs Humans Kind Mother Desire Pleasure Virtue Pure Breaths Refuse Permanent Appetite Nursing Rendering Satiety

Author:Socrates

“Stress appears in your life because you have a rigid view of 'This is the way the world should be,' and the Universe pays scant regard to your desires. And you refuse to accept this.”

World Way Should Desire Universe Views Pay Accepting Stress Regard Refuse

Author:Srikumar Rao

“My mantra is, 'Don't be afraid of color.' What did it do to you? Do a color testing in alternate kinds of light you desire in the room because the pigment will change. And I refuse to believe that pale pale or white colors in a small room will buy you more square footage. Go with color all the way.”

Way Believe Kind Light Desire White Rooms Color Refuse Squares Pale Testing Mantras Pigment Small Rooms

Author:Bryan Batt

“It is not for man to seek, or even to believe in, God. He only has to refuse his ultimate love to everything that is not God. This refusal does not presuppose any belief. It is enough to recognize what is obvious to any mind: that all the goods of this world, past, present, and future, real or imaginary, are finite and limited and radically incapable of satisfying the desire that perpetually burns within us for an infinite and perfect good.”

“Like desire, language disrupts, refuses to be contained within boundaries.”

Desire Language Sex Refuse Boundaries

Book:Teaching To Transgress

Source: Teaching To Transgress