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"Despite all of our incessant tinkering, we can't manufacture the things we most desperately need. And if perchance we do, they will never be more than pathetically emaciated facsimiles that will leave us emaciated. And until we finally realize that we can only 'find' these things, we will never sense any compulsion to 'find' God."
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"Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself."
"I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited."
"The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired."
"Without 'Gnan' (True Knowledge of the Self), desire(s) will not go away."
"You need to be greedy or ignorant to truly want to live forever."
"Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural."
"Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire."
"He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes when they were really hungry they created vast banquets in their imagination - but at the end of the day they'd settle quite happily for egg and chips. If it was well done and maybe had a slice of tomato."
"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."
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"To grasp love, I must grasp the fact that it is a creation of God and therefore it is forever beyond me. But the very fact that it is forever beyond me is the very thing that prompts me to forever pursue it."
"The wisdom to be on the throne of one's life must surpass the wisdom of the one being ruled, otherwise I will squander the whole of my life in the most appalling ways. By virtue of that reality, I would be wise to get out of the chair and invite God to have a seat."
"If I have become so pathetically dulled that I hold freedom as my right and the privileges of liberty as my due, I can stand beside the stilled graves of a thousand soldiers fallen in defense of freedom and not feel a thing. And my most solemn prayer is that I will never be this."
"Tomorrow' is the thing that's always coming but never arrives. 'Today' is the thing that's already here and never leaves. And because that's the case, I would much prefer to invest in today than sit around waiting for an arrival that's not arriving."
"The miracle is that the brilliance of the miraculous can live in the blandness of the mundane. The greater miracle is that we have enough brilliance in our own blandness to see it."
"The greatest gains that we will ever experience arise from the greatest sacrifices that we have ever known."
"We have a choice. We can be jaded by what we've lost, or joyous over what that thing had accomplished while we had it."
"I'm in a hole because at some point I found a shovel and started digging. Maybe I should trade my shovels for ladders and start climbing."
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