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“All the joy the world contains Has come through wishing happiness for others. All the misery the world contains Has come through wanting pleasure for oneself.”

World Motivational Joy Wish Pleasure Misery Oneself

Book:The Way of the Bodhisattva

Source: The Way of the Bodhisattva

“All the happiness there is in this world Arises from wishing others to be happy. And all the suffering there is in this world Arises from wishing oneself to be happy.”

World Motivation Suffering Wish This World Oneself Arise

Author:Shantideva

“The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation ... it is common to wish well to oneself, but in our technically unified world, wishing well to oneself is sure to be futile unless it is combined with wishing well to others.”

World Wells Wish Common Mankind Oneself Cooperation Unified Well Wishes

Book:Man's Peril, 1954-55

Source: Man's Peril, 1954-55

“To link oneself with the masses, one must act in accordance with the needs and wishes of the masses.”

Needs Wish Mass Oneself Links

Book:Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung

Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung

“A man must first of all understand certain things. He has thousands of false ideas and false conceptions, chiefly about himself, and he must get rid of some of them before beginning to acquire anything new. Otherwise the new will be built on a wrong foundation and the result will be worse than before. To speak the truth is the most difficult thing in the world; one must study a great deal and for a long time in order to speak the truth. The wish alone is not enough. To speak the truth one must know what the truth is and what a lie is, and first of all in oneself. And this nobody wants to know.”

“Wooden-headedness, the source of self-deception, is a factor that plays a remarkably large role in government. It consists in assessing a situation in terms of preconceived fixed notions while ignoring or rejecting any contrary signs. It is acting according to wish while not allowing oneself to be deflected by the facts.”

Source: The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam

“Perhaps one would be wise when young even to avoid thinking of oneself as a writer - for there's something a little stopped and satisfied, too healthy, in that. Better to think of writing, of what one does as an activity, rather than an identity - to write, I write; we write; to keep the calling a verb rather than a noun; to keep working at the thing, at all hours, in all places, so that your life does not become a pose, a pornography of wishing.”

Thinking Writing Littles Doe Would Be Young Wish Hours Wise Identity Calling Healthy Activity Oneself Satisfied Pornography Being Wise Verbs Nouns

Author:Lorrie Moore

“... in nine out of ten cases the original wish to write is the wish to make oneself felt[ellipsis in source] the non-essential writer never gets past that wish.”

Writing Past Wish Felt Cases Source Ten Essentials Originals Oneself Nine

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“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.”