The discipline of desire is the background of character.
- Topic: Character, Desire, Discipline
- Location: Grand Prismatic, Yellowstone National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
Freedom is to be free from restraint and violence from others.
Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, unknown, arbitrary rule of another man.
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Desire is the essence of a man.
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Your radiance shines in every atom of creation yet our petty desires keep it hidden.
If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.
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There are two ways to get enough: One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts prosecution.
The heart's earnest and pure desire is always fulfilled.
Let thy child's first lesson be obedience, and the second may be what thou wilt.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.
