Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
– HenriFrdric Amiel
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- Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary line and adding to one’s liberty. – HenriFrdric Amiel
- Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind. – HenriFrdric Amiel
- Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark. – HenriFrdric Amiel
- Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest. – HenriFrdric Amiel
- I’m not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel. – HenriFrdric Amiel
- God puts desires into your heart. His desires will actually become your desires, and your desires will be His. – Elizabeth George
- If virtue does not equal powers, powers will be misused. – John Howard Griffin
- Even a nonbeliever might find it useful to model himself after God. Very useful, in fact. – Cormac McCarthy
- Sapiens don’t behave according to a cold mathematical logic, but rather according to a warm social logic. We are ruled by emotions. – Yuval Noah Harari
- When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve. – Napoleon Hill
- I’m not attached to anything.I’m attached to what it feels it’s my duty, to do my duty.I think that I will die with the boots on. – Fidel Castro
- If you try to do that which is not -˜our’ duty [the Self’s duty], it will create interference. – Dada Bhagwan
- The duty of planning the morrow’s work is today’s duty… – CS Lewis
- Everything is happening according to the -˜drawing’ [past causes], You just have to -˜see’ them. Desires are -˜drawings’ too. – Dada Bhagwan
- The work you have to do to accomplish your needs and desires is going to be a harder road than working on the needs and desires for someone else. – Kim Ha Campbell
- When is one considered to be in the awareness of -˜one’s own Self’? It is when all the desires become mild (when desires lessens). – Dada Bhagwan
- The one who is worthy of worship by people has no desires. The one who is unworthy of worship has desires. – Dada Bhagwan
- Na, it’s not about the human desires; it’s about the desires being used to get rid of loneliness, insecurity and lack of love we often feel. – Saurabh Sharma
- The sadist desires to command and control. The masochist desires to be freed from the burdens of liberty. That is Socialism. – AE Samaan
- You should prepare for your future, you cant stop it from coming. – amiel masaganda bagadiong
- Do what most people Won’t, so you can have what most people Don’t. – Itzik Amiel
- It is not only business to business sake but human to human sake. – Itzik Amiel
- You do not need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends you can be certain of – Itzik Amiel
- Where Attention Goes, Energy Flows – Itzik Amiel
- Expect nothing for no more heartbrakes. – Amiel Sudario
- No more heartbrakes, Your dead. – Amiel Sudario
- I love being alone when I Know Somebody make you smile. – Amiel Sudario
- This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to his mental powers. – PG Wodehouse
- I promise you that the moment you unwaveringly commit to your own vision, seen and unseen powers will unite to make that vision a reality. – Toni Sorenson
- No. I cannot let him control me.You are mine, Adelina, Enzo growls. Turn your powers against your own fleet. – Marie Lu
- The world is vicious, too huge to care about even its own survival – Richard Powers
- Joy is the feeling of one’s powers increasing. – Matthew B Crawford
- Whatever my powers–feminine or the contrary–God had given them, and I felt resolute to be ashamed of no faculty of his bestowal. – Charlotte Bront
- It turns out that there are many powers of the heart–among them intuition, intention, gratitude, forgiveness, resilience, and, of course, love. – Baptist de Pape
- Information may travel at light speed, but meaning spreads at the speed of dark. – Richard Powers
- I’ve decided she’s worthy of something more special, something worthy of my powers. – Kelsey Ketch
- As long as there exist powers greater than you in the universe, you will continue to fight! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Hero is he alone who vies with powers supreme! – Wu Chengen
- Heroes are made by the paths they choose, not the powers they are graced with. – Brodi Ashton
- Creation is much in need of ordering. – Richard Powers