"Desires to which we cling closely can easily prevent us from being what we ought to be and can be; and on the other hand, desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer.Lack of desire is poverty."

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#Hands Quotes #Desire Quotes #Sake Quotes

“God never calls His people to accomplish anything without promising to supply their every need.”
“Give your child a spanking once a day. If you don't know why, he does.”

Source : Sam Levenson (2016). “You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson”, p.31, Open Road Media
“If you like a wine that you drink, now with your phone, it's so easy. Just take a picture of the label. You learn about it. You learn where it comes from and what the soil is like and why you like it. And that'll lead you to another wine.”
“Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.”
“The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here.”
“If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether.”
“Being wanted is the tender heel of everything human.”

Source : Jacquelyn Mitchard (1999). “The Rest of Us: Dispatches from the Mother Ship”, p.74, Penguin
“I had other priorities in the sixties than military service.”

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