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“What is the relationship between spirituality and ethical practice? Since love and compassion and similar qualities all, by definition, presume some level of concern for others' well-being, they presume ethical restraint. We cannot be loving and compassionate unless at the same time we curb our own harmful impulses and desires.”

Source: The Essence Of Wisdom

“Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.”

Men Law Desire Good Man Interfere Restraint

Book:Short Studies on Great Subjects

Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects

“No growth without resistance. No action without reaction. No desire without restraint.”

Action Desire Growth Reactions Resistance Restraint

Author:Li Mu

“Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy? Why a little curtain of flesh on the bed of our desire?”

Littles Desire Boys Bed Flesh Burning Restraint Curtains Curb

Book:William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose

Source: William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose

“It is characteristic of the barbarian ... to insist upon seeing a thing "as it is." The desire testifies that he has nothing in himself with which to spiritualize it; the relation is one of thing to thing without the intercession of the imagination. Impatient of the veiling with which the man of higher type gives the world imaginative meaning, the barbarian and the Philistine, who is the barbarian living amid culture, demands the access of immediacy. Where the former wishes representation, the latter insists upon starkness of materiality, suspecting rightly that forms will mean restraint.”