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desiring
«The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.»
Author: Carl Sandburg
(Historian, Novelist, Poet)
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Desire,
Happiness
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admire, desiring
«The greatest purity is nothing or nothingness - no thinking, no desiring, no imagining. You are then one with the moment and the great movement of life so nothing can happen that is not right.»
«The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength /each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
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asking, curse, deceptive, desiring, disinterestedly, find oneself, gaining, individuals, joined, plenitude, seeks, self-seeking, transcend, unable, warmth, wrapped, wrapped up
«Then came to him the mother of Zebedees children with her sons, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him.»
«Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned: / From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling; / Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.»
«There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: / And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, / And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.»