"Desire is the very essence of man."

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"Often, men want money to get women, or to use women to get money, or both at the same time."

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"Any type of desire is beggary. One who is without any desire is called 'Gnani' [the enlightened one]."

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"The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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"The eye of a man is never satisfied with seeing."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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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."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"If you can desire it, you can behold it."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"As long as there is greed (desire) for even a single situation, one will have to come back into the world and wandering will continue until then."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"Desires move us from one station to another in this life while we search for beauty, love, and happiness."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"I want love, passion, honesty, and companionship... sex that drives me crazy and conversation that drives me sane."

"Often, men want money to get women, or to use women to get money, or both at the same time."

"Any type of desire is beggary. One who is without any desire is called 'Gnani' [the enlightened one]."

"The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest."

"The eye of a man is never satisfied with seeing."

"If you can desire it, you can behold it."

"When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want."

"As long as there is greed (desire) for even a single situation, one will have to come back into the world and wandering will continue until then."

"Desires move us from one station to another in this life while we search for beauty, love, and happiness."

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"The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self."

"The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free."

"Desire is the very essence of man."

"Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself."

"If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past."

"So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it."

"Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived."

"One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf."

"All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love."

"Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature."