Best highest & desire Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to the desires of the people. We are angry about the cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interests and self-dealing that is Albany.”

People Self Government Desire Nations Interest Pay Attention Conflict Taxes Highest Angry Property Corruption Income Income Tax Incompetent Conflict Of Interest Albany Property Taxes

Author:Carl Paladino

“If you desire to know or learn anything to your advantage, then take delight in being unknown and unregarded. A true understanding and humble estimate of oneself is the highest and most valuable of all lessons.”

Ifs Knows Desire Understanding Lessons Highest Advantage Oneself Delight Humble Valuable Obscurity True Understanding

Author:Thomas a Kempis

“There can be no richer man or woman than the individual who has found his or her labor of love. Personal fulfillment through the virtue of work is the highest form of desire. Work is the conduit between the supply and the demand of all human needs, the forerunner of human progress, and the medium by which the imagination is given the wings of action. A labor of love is exalted because it provides joy and self-expression to those who perform it.”

Source: What Makes the Great Great: Strategies for Extraordinary Achievement

“When a sunbeam falls on a transparent substance, the substance itself becomes brilliant, and radiates light from itself. So too Spirit bearing souls, illumined by Him, finally become spiritual themselves, and their grace is sent forth to others. From this comes knowledge of the future, understanding of mysteries, apprehension of hidden things, distribution of wonderful gifts, heavenly citizenship, a place in the choir of angels, endless joy in the presence of God, becoming like God, and, the highest of all desires, becoming God.”

“I dare not say with Paul that I am the slave of Christ, but my highest aspiration and desire is to be the slave of Christ.”

Desire Christ Highest Slave Dare Aspiration Discipleship

Book:Creation in Christ: Unspoken Sermons

Source: Creation in Christ: Unspoken Sermons

“Everest is regarded as one of, if not the most challenging of human conquests. I was passionate about climbing and a great believer that one should always challenge their own perception of where their boundaries lie. Everest seemed like an irrational challenge for an Egyptian, so I embraced it wholeheartedly. This feeling grew stronger when I realized that no Egyptian had attempted, let alone stood, on the roof of the world. The desire and pride of representing my country and raising the Egyptian flag on the highest points on earth has been with me ever since.”

“Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned-that of any achievements open to you, the one that makes all others possible is the creation of your own character-that your character, your actions, your desires, your emotions are the products of the premises held by your mind.”

Men Mind Character Facts Action Desire Values Emotion Creation Products Pride Achievement Highest Recognition Premises

Author:John Galt

“... the proper self-knowledge and self-love of every created thing is ipso facto a participation in the knowledge and love of God. The entire universe moves by desire for the Highest Good simply because every part of it loves what God loves - namely, its own being.”

Self Moving Desire Universe Self Love Highest And Love God Love Self Knowledge Participation

Book:Between Noon and Three: Romance, Law, and the Outrage of Grace

Source: Between Noon and Three: Romance, Law, and the Outrage of Grace

“We all enter the world little plastic beings, with so much natural force, perhaps, but for the rest--blank; and the world tells uswhat we are to be, and shapes us by the ends it sets before us. To you it says--Work; and to us it says--Seem! To you it says--As you approximate to man's highest ideal of God, as your arm is strong and your knowledge great, and the power to labour is with you, so you shall gain all that human heart desires. To us it says--Strength shall not help you, nor knowledge, nor labour. You shall gain what men gain, but by other means. And so the world makes men and women.”

Source: The Story of an African Farm: A Novel

“I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life; the life of toil and effort; of labour and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes not to the man who desires mere easy peace but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph. A life of ignoble ease, a life of that peace which springs merely from lack either of desire or of power to strive after great things, is as little worthy of a nation as of an individual.”

Source: The Roosevelt Book: Selections from the Writings of Theodore Roosevelt

“My desire is to strive toward perfection; to be as much in harmony with God's will as possible; to live up to the highest light I have. I'm still not perfect, of course, but I grow daily... I am able to do everything I am called to do, and I do know what I need to know to do my part in the Divine Plan. And I do experience the happiness of living in harmony with God's will for me.”

Knows Needs Stills Light Able Desire Courses Grows Perfect Plans Divine Highest Perfection Harmony Strive Gods Will Not Perfect

Author:Peace Pilgrim

“Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.”

Littles Reason Desire Understanding Rooms Willing Highest Reflection Affection Addresses Eloquence Captivating

Author:David Hume

“What we all desire is the fullest, highest expression of ourselves.”

Desire Expression Highest

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“The meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only the contemplative, witness-like study of objects that brings to us real enjoyment and happiness.”

Long Real States Desire Existence Study Objects Highest Witness Enjoyment Contemplative Real Happiness

Book:Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature

Source: Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature

“Forget about willpower. It's time for why-power. Your choices are only meaningful when you connect them to your desires and dreams. The wisest and most motivating choices are the ones aligned with that which you identify as your purpose, your core self, and your highest values. You've got to want something, and know why you want it, or you'll end up giving up too easily.”

Knows Want Giving Ends Self Dream Desire Purpose Values Choices Forget Giving Up Highest Meaningful Core Willpower Want Something Wisest

Author:Darren Hardy

“The reason we can't attain the highest level of knowledge while incarnate is that we can't then wholly escape the influence of the body (and so of perception and of certain desires that take us away from thinking properly); and that prevents us from understanding fully what forms are, which one must do in order to have the highest level of knowledge.”

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Author:Gail Fine

“Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor--by our love for a single value, for the highest potentiality of our own existence--and every achievement is an expression of it.”

Ifs Form Desire Values Existence Expression Achievement Highest Driven Our Love Motor

Book:Ayn Rand Novel Collection

Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection

“A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death.”

Humans Soul Desire Highest Sick Longing Deprived Human Soul

Book:Ravelstein

Source: Ravelstein

“The Christian's whole desire, at its best and highest, is that Jesus Christ be praised. It is always a wretched bastardization of our goals when we want to win glory for ourselves instead of for him.”

Want Whole Christian Desire Jesus Winning Goal Christ Highest Glory Jesus Christ Wretched

Book:A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers

Source: A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers

“Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit.”

Men May Desire Virtue Bears Discipline Highest Fruit Endeavor

Book:Saviors of God

Source: Saviors of God

“We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and to create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in order to cater to them with the products of our factories and printing presses and movie studios and all the rest.”

Source: The Seven Storey Mountain

“This place was truly the highest and the lowest of all worlds - the most beautiful senses, the most exquisite emotions.. the most malevolent desires, the darkest deeds. Perhaps it was meant to be so. Perhaps without the lows, the highs could not be reached.”

World Love Beautiful Desire Emotion Highest Empathy Lows Appreciate Deeds Appreciation Senses Meant To Be Lowest Exquisite Were Meant To Be Past Relationship

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.”

“Ask him why there are hypocrites in the world.' 'Because it is hard to bear the happiness of others.' 'When are we happy?' 'When we desire nothing and realize that possession is only momentary, and so are forever playing.' 'What is regret?' 'To realize that one has spent one's life worrying about the future.' 'What is sorrow?' 'To long for the past.' 'What is the highest pleasure?' 'To hear a good story.”

World Long Hard Stories Past Desire Asks Realizing Pleasure Worry Forever Regret Bears Sorrow Highest Possession Hypocrite Good Story Momentary

Book:Red Earth and Pouring Rain

Source: Red Earth and Pouring Rain

“At it's highest level, the purpose of teaching is not to teach—it is to inspire the desire for learning. Once a student's mind is set on fire, it will find a way to provide its own fuel.”

Way Mind Desire Purpose Levels Teach Fire Teaching Students Inspire Highest Fuel

Book:Best of Sydney J. Harris

Source: Best of Sydney J. Harris

“There is a tremendous desire and longing for love, but love needs great awareness. Only then can it reach its highest climax -- and that highest climax IS marriage. It has nothing to do with law. It is a merging of two hearts into totality. It is the functioning of two persons in synchronicity -- that is marriage.”

Needs Heart Persons Two Law Desire Marriage Awareness Highest Longing Totality Synchronicity Climax Merging Two Hearts

Author:Rajneesh

“The desire for truth is the highest of all desires, yet, it is still a desire. All desires must be given up for the real to be.....When all search ceases, it is the Supreme State.”

Stills Real States Spiritual Desire Spirituality Given Truth Is Highest Supreme Cease Given Up

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth. The evidence is incontrovertible. The contrast between West and East Berlin is the latest demonstration, like a laboratory experiment for all to see. Yet those who are loudest in proclaiming their desire to eliminate poverty are loudest in denouncing capitalism. Man's well-being is not their goal.”

Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

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