“While criticism or fear of punishment may restrain us from doing wrong, it does not make us wish to do right. Disregarding this simple fact is the great error into which parents and educators fall when they rely on these negative means of correction. The only effective discipline is self-discipline, motivated by the inner desire to act meritoriously in order to do well in one's own eyes, according to one's own values, so that one may feel good about oneself may "have a good conscience.” FeelsWellsMayMeanDoeSelfFactsEyeDesireValuesOrderFallWishParentSimpleDisciplineConscienceNegativeCriticismErrorsOneselfPunishmentFeel GoodRelyMotivatedSelf DisciplineEducatorCorrections Author:Bruno Bettelheim
“While extremely sensitive as to the slightest approach to slander, you must also guard against an extreme into which some people fall, who, in their desire to speak evil of no one, actually uphold and speak well of vice.” PeopleWellsDesireFallEvilSpeakDangerApproachVicesExtremesSensitiveSlander Book:The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books] Source: The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]
“The concept of 'obscenity' is tested when one dares to look at something that he has an unbearable desire to see but has forbidden himself to look at. When one feels that everything that one had wanted to see has been revealed, 'obscenity' disappears, the taboo disappears as well, and there is a certain liberation.” FeelsWellsLooksHas BeensWantedDesireCertainConceptsDareDisappearLiberationForbiddenTestedUnbearableTabooObscenity Author:Nagisa Oshima
“All your desires, whatever they may be, are expressions of your longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself well.” WellsMayDesireWishExpressionLonging Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“Like art, political action gives shape and expression to the things we fear as well as to those we desire. It is a creative process, drawing on the power to imagine as well as to act.” GivingWellsArtActionPoliticalDesirePoliticsProcessCreativeImagineExpressionShapesDrawingCreative ProcessPolitical Action Author:Madeleine M. Kunin
“I must consider more closely this cycle of good and bad days which I find coursing within myself. Passion, attachment, the urge to action, inventiveness, performance, order all alternate and keep their orbit; cheerfulness, vigor, energy, flexibility and fatigue, serenity as well as desire. Nothing disturbs the cycle for I lead a simple life, but I must still find the time and order in which I rotate.” LifeWellsStillsActionDesireOrderPassionEnergySimplePerformancesUrgesCyclesAttachmentSerenityFlexibilityGood And BadFatigueBad DaySimple LifeCheerfulnessVigorOrbitInventivenessGood And Bad Days Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“So if hunger provokes wailing and wailing brings the breast; if the breast permits sucking and milk suggests its swallow; if swallowing issues in sleep and stomachy comfort, then need, ache, message, object, act, and satisfaction are soon associated like charms on a chain; shortly our wants begin to envision the things which well reduce them, and the organism is finally said to wish.” IfsWantNeedsWellsSaidDesireWishSleepIssuesObjectsComfortMessagesHungerSatisfactionChainsCharmBreastsPermitMilkProvokingOrganismsAcheInfancySwallowingWailing Author:William H. Gass
“Many have been led astray by the Qur'an: by clinging to that rope many have fallen into the well. There is no fault in the rope, O perverse man, for it was you who had no desire to reach the top.” MenWellsHas BeensDesireFaultsFallenRopeClinging Author:Rumi
“There appears to exist a greater desire to live long than to live well! Measure by man's desires, he cannot live long enough; measure by his good deeds, and he has not lived long enough; measure by his evil deeds, and he has lived too long.” MenLifeWellsLongEnoughDesireEvilGreaterDeedsGood DeedsLong LifeLive WellDesire To Live Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
“Allow me, whom Fortune always desires to bury, lay down my life in these final trivialities. Many have freely died in longlasting loves, among whose number may the earth cover me as well.” WellsMayEarthDesireNumbersDiedLaysFortuneFinalsLasting LoveTriviality Author:Propertius