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To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of the needs of their children. As a consequence of this sacrifice, conscientious parents develop a nobility of character and learn to put into practice the selfless truths taught by the Savior Himself. James E. Faust

Good Needs Character Parenting Mother Father Parents Sacrifice Practice Own Defer Savior Favor Develop Put Nobility Himself Learn Selfless Truths Taught Children Requires Many Good Father Conscientious Consequence Desires

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate. Socrates

Hate Come Deadliest Often Deepest Desires

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires. Nelson Mandela

Death Freedom Walk Will Before Our Valley Easy Shadow Through Reach Pass Mountaintop Anywhere Again Us Many Desires

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will. Charles Spurgeon

Thanksgiving Obedience Better Will Mercy Submission Live Think Our Ourselves Constant General Delighting Better Thing Cheerfulness Him How Lord Command Perpetual His Than Done Manner Whose Thing Desires

Indeed, this life is a test. It is a test of many things - of our convictions and priorities, our faith and our faithfulness, our patience and our resilience, and in the end, our ultimate desires. Sheri L. Dew

Life Faith Patience Life Is A Convictions Our Indeed Faithfulness Priorities Test Ultimate End In The End Many Things Resilience Desires

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times. Niccolo Machiavelli

Success Change Must Constant His Conduct Times Whosoever Desires

The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him. Xun Kuang

What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God. C. S. Lewis

Education God Nature You Natural Fears Meeting Ancestors Some Something My Self Various Self Mainly Come Devils Perhaps Call Forces Were Person Intended Place Which Really Now Lives Hardly Desires

Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish. Billy Graham

God Faith Religion Selfish People Church Research Design Local Trendy Churches Neighborhoods Kind True Demands True Faith Hiring Fit Selflessness Replaced Being Poll Prefer Agencies Themselves Then Asking Many Serve Desires

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires. Lao Tzu

Simplicity Few Embrace Reduce Selfishness Manifest Desires

A woman of the world is anxious to exhibit her form and shape, whether walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. Even when represented as a picture, she desires to captivate with the charms of her beauty and, thus, to rob men of their steadfast heart. Buddha

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream. Paulo Coelho

Universe Dream Conspires Something His Person Realize Really Help Desires

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment. Thomas Carlyle

Achievement Man Achieve Nothing Every Develop Simply Obstacle Powers Course His Accomplishment Stops Who Strengthening Muscle Desires

The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself. Ramana Maharshi

Nature Thoughts Man Strong Evil Every Think Weak Habits Divine He Himself Greatest Real His Error Every Man Desires

Boredom: the desire for desires. Leo Tolstoy

Boredom Desire Desires

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old. Jonathan Swift

Man Age Old Long Live Every Wishes Every Man Desires

Think of God; attachments will gradually drop away. If you wait till all desires disappear before starting your devotion and prayer, you will have to wait for a very long time indeed. Ramana Maharshi

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories. Elie Wiesel

Truth Memories Truth Is People Words Think Follow Shadows Objects Ideas Most Also Surround Precede Impulses Deeds Beings Desires

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be. Anna Louise Strong

Love Loneliness Love Is Worth Cause Fall Difficult Enough Our Easy Find Steadily Steady Remain Through Comrade Becomes Making Quest Person Human Hard Even Whose Presence Desires

Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season. All great men of letters have therefore been enthusiastic walkers. Leslie Stephen

We experience happiness as a series of pleasing moments. They come and go like clouds, unpredictable, fleeting, and without responsibility to our desires. Through honest self-work, reflection, and meditation, we begin to string more of these moments together, creating a web-like design of happiness that drapes around our lives. Tara Stiles

Happiness Together Experience Clouds Reflection Responsibility Design Meditation Our String Our Lives Pleasing Unpredictable More Through Come Like Come And Go Around Without Go Begin Fleeting Creating Moments Series Lives Desires Honest

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