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“True love is not the helpless desire to possess the cherished object of one's fervent affection; true love is the disciplined generosity we require of ourselves for the sake of another when we would rather be selfish; that, at least, is how I have taught myself to love my wife.”

Desire Love Is Wife Objects Taught Sake Affection My Wife Selfish Generosity Helpless True Love Is Fervent Being Selfish Love My Wife

Book:The Emperor of Ocean Park

Source: The Emperor of Ocean Park

“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

“I was raised the Chinese way: I was taught to desire nothing, to swallow other people's misery, to eat my own bitterness. And even though I taught my daughter the opposite, still she came out the same way! Maybe it is because she was born to me and she was born a girl. And I was born to my mother and I was born a girl. All of us are like stairs, one step after another, going up and down, but all going the same way.”

People Way Stills Mother Desire Girl Born My Own Steps Generations Taught Daughter Opposites Misery Raised Chinese My Daughter Bitterness Up And Down Stairs

Author:Amy Tan

“The secret of karma yoga which is to perform actions without any fruitive desires is taught by Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad-Gita.”

Action Desire Secret Lord Taught Yoga Karma Krishna Karma Yoga Gita Lord Krishna

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“Colleen McCullough taught me that desire is the heart of romance.”

Heart Romance Desire Taught

Author:Sarah MacLean

“Babies who have not yet been taught to speak any language are the only race of the earth, the race of man: all the rest is pretence, what we call civilization, hatred, fear, desire for strength.”

Men Earth Desire Speak Language Race Taught Baby Civilization Hatred Pretence

Book:The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, and Other Stories

Source: The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, and Other Stories

“I desire no other epitaph - no hurry about it, I may say - than the statement that I taught medical students in the wards, as I regard this as by far the most useful and important work I have been called upon to do.”

May Has Beens Important Desire Education Students Taught Regard Medical Statements Epitaph Important Work

Book:Aequanimitas

Source: Aequanimitas

“Women are taught that their main goal in life is to serve others--first men, and later, children. This prescription leads to enormous problems, for it is supposed to be carried out as if women did not have needs of their own, as if one could serve others without simultaneously attending to one's own interests and desires. Carried to its "perfection," it produces the martyr syndrome or the smothering wife and mother.”

Source: Toward a New Psychology of Women

“I was not yet three years old when my mother determined to send one of my elder sisters to learn to read at a school for girls we call the Amigas. Affection, and mischief, caused me to follow her, and when I observed how she was being taught her lessons I was so inflamed with the desire to know how to read, that deceiving - for so I knew it to be - the mistress, I told her that my mother had meant for me to have lessons too. ... I learned so quickly that before my mother knew of it I could already read.”

Knows Years School Mother Desire Girl Three Know How Taught Lessons Affection Determined Three Years Deceiving Elders Mistress Mischief Three Year Olds

Author:Juana Inés de la Cruz

“Humility is a fertile soil where spirituality grows and produces the fruit of inspiration to know what to do. It gives access to divine power to accomplish what must be done. An individual motivated by a desire for praise or recognition will not qualify to be taught by the Spirit. An individual who is arrogant or who lets his or her emotions influence decisions will not be powerfully led by the Spirit.”