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“The most desirable mode of education, is that which is careful that all the acquisitions of the pupil shall be preceded and accompanied by desire . . . The boy, like the man, studies because he desires it. He proceeds upon a plan of is own invention, or by which, by adopting, he has made his own. Everything bespeaks independence and inequality.”

Men Made Desire Boys Study Plans He Man Independence Careful Invention Inequality Desirable Acquisition Pupils Adopting

Author:William Godwin

“Agriculture is for living; mind culture is for life. Skills are for shaping material things so that they cater more for the comfort of man; studies are for shaping attitudes, feelings, desires, emotions and impulses of man, so that they may confer more peace, more joy and more fortitude on man.”

Men Mind May Feelings Joy Desire Culture Emotion Attitude Study Materials Comfort Skills Impulse Agriculture Fortitude Material Things Life Skills

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Study the lives of our great women, who were models of patience, fortitude, compassion and sacrifice. I desire that you should take up the reins of leadership and bring peace and prosperity to the nation by leading ideal lives.”

Should Desire Nations Compassion Study Sacrifice Models Ideals Prosperity Fortitude Reins Great Women Ideal Life

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“It is acceptance of the will of God - waiting, if necessary, forever, happily rising above your desires and above your frustrations to always do what is right. Always do what is right. This is the spiritual study.”

Ifs Spiritual Desire Waiting Forever Study Acceptance Buddhism Gods Will Rising Frustration Rise Above Dharma

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A great deal of energy is lost in the study by people who interact with non-physical beings. They get into your mind and your body by approaching you in the dream plane, promising you powers, playing on your desires. They sap your life force.”

People Mind Dream Body Desire Energy Lost Force Deals Study Your Body Planes Mysticism Sap Losing Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I desire to go through life knowing as little of evil in it as possible. To this end, I sometimes avoid looking too closely into the nature of things, studying them only so far as they seem to be good, and abandoning interest in them as soon as their darker feature begin to appear. The good only deserves a hearty interest.”

Littles Ends Sometimes Seems Desire Evil Interest Knowing Study Deserve Be Good Features Hearty

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“If you see yourself in a favorable light, if your image of yourself is pleasant, if this visual concept of yourself cannot be shaken by temporary defeats, then you have reached the goal achieved by the most fortunate. Not everyone reaches this mental state; in fact, many people do not even believe it is possible. Happiness and peace of mind are a matter of consciousness. We must create the inner-harmony we desire. This type of awareness is not an accident, it comes from study and an understanding that we are truly creative.”

“I have been induced to adopt this course by a desire that my readers should be taught to think as well as to experiment, and thus be qualified at an early part of their study to discriminate between the true and the false, and acquire the facts of the science without being mystified by its fictions.”

Thinking Should Wells Has Beens Facts Desire Courses Fiction Study Taught Reader Experiments Acquire Qualified

Book:Chemical Recreations: A Compendium of Experimental Chemistry

Source: Chemical Recreations: A Compendium of Experimental Chemistry

“Obsessive use of meditative disciplines or perennial study of scripture and philosophy will never bring forth this wonderful realization, this truth which is natural to awareness, because the mind that desperately desires to reach another realm or level of experience inadvertently ignores the basic light that constitutes all experience.”

Mind Philosophy Use Light Desire Natural Levels Study Wonderful Awareness Discipline Scripture Realization Realms Obsessive

Author:Tilopa

“I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.”

Doe Art Desire Understanding Opinion Study Tests Appreciation Insight

Author:Laurance Rockefeller

“It is cheering to note that [Martin] Luther (1524) did not see why schools should not be fun as well: "Now since the young must leap and jump, or have something to do, because they have a natural desire for it which should not be restrained (for it is not well to check them in everything) why should we not provide for them such schools, and lay before them such studies?”

Should Wells School Young Desire Fun Natural Education Study Lays Notes Checks Leap Cheer Luther

Author:Martin Luther

“In a famous Middletown study of Muncie, Indiana, in 1924, mothers were asked to rank the qualities they most desire in their children. At the top of the list were conformity and strict obedience. More than fifty years later, when the Middletown survey was replicated, mothers placed autonomy and independence first. The healthiest parenting probably promotes a balance of these qualities in children.”

Years Firsts Children Mother Desire Values Quality Study Balance Independence Lists Obedience Fifty Conformity Strict Autonomy Surveys Indiana

Author:Richard Louv

“It was this desire for a feeling of importance that led an uneducated, poverty-stricken grocery clerk to study some law books he found in the bottom of a barrel of household plunder that he had bought for fifty cents. You have probably heard of this grocery clerk. His name was Lincoln.”

Book Feelings Law Desire Found Names Poverty Study Heard Importance Bottom Fifty Cents Household Groceries Barrels Clerks Uneducated Plunder Law Books

Book:How to win friends & influence people

Source: How to win friends & influence people

“Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.”

Real Desire Study Activity Mockery Semblance

Book:The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners and Literature, in a Series of Essays

Source: The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners and Literature, in a Series of Essays