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Commit yourself then to God! He will be your guide. He Himself will travel with you, as we are told He did with the Israelites, to bring them step by step across the desert to the promised land. Ah! what will be your blessedness, if you will but surrender yourself into the hands of God, permitting Him to do whatever He will, not according to your desires, but according to His own good pleasure?

Compassion brings fulfillment to the heart. Selfish desires simply agitate the heart.

Comparison will be the number one thing that will keep you from doing what God's calling you to do. He's put a gift and a call and a desire in your heart that is different than anyone else's. And you're wired that way for a reason.

Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.

Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

Conditions of thought, memory, and desire, persuaded by impulse and irrationality, are influenced as well by personal aesthetics and private meanings.

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, persists after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.

Consciousness means choicelessness, and to be choiceless is to be free from all desire, is to be free from all projection, is to be free from all imagination, is to be free from future.

Conscious evolution means having the desire to evolve.

Consensus and dialogue have always played a significant role, especially in Danish society. Of course there are basic values that must be respected, but within this framework, we are a liberal and tolerant country where everyone can live as they desire and according to their tradition. That is the Danish way.

Contentment is not by addition but by subtraction: seeking to add a thing will not bring contentment. Instead, subtracting from your desires until you are satisfied only with Christ brings contentment.

Consistent prayer is the desire to do right.

Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it.

Contrary to what phenomenology- which is always phenomenology of perception- has tried to make us believe, contrary to what our desire cannot fail to be tempted into believing, the thing itself always escapes.

Contentment produces, in some measure, all those effects which the alchemist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone; and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing by banishing the desire for them.

Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.

Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss? Romantically she decided that love must surely reside in the gap between desire and fulfillment, in the lack, not the contentment. Love was the ache, the anticipation, the retreat, everything around it but the emotion itself.

Countless the various species of mankind, Countless the shades which sep'rate mind from mind; No general object of desire is known, Each has his will, and each pursues his own.

Courage, cheerfulness, and a desire to work depends mostly on good nutrition.

Countless are, as the sand in the sea, the deep desires of men, and none resembles the other, and all of them, whether shameful, or great, in the beginning are obedient, but later become terrible masters over him.

Create content that satisfies your uber goals and desires.

Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the government of the day, to do the work of defense for him. A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women.

Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these things, as a child loves jam, but because they think they ought to have them. That is one element which makes the crank.

Craftsmanship names an enduring, basic human impulse, the desire to do a job well for its own sake.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

Creativity is a space for solitary longing, the desire to be elsewhere in space and time, to be in a new ideal world where life is as it should be.

Creativity is an attempt to resolve a conflict generated by unexpressed biological impulses, such that unfulfilled desires are the driving force of the imagination, and they fuel our dreams and daydreams.

Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure.

Criminals interest me, because they're driven by the same desires as we are, but they take these disastrous shortcuts and end up in a real mess.

Cultivate your desire for success to be greater than the fear of failure; Failure is merely a pitstop between where you stand and success. Failure allows you to learn the fastest; Failure inspires winners and defeats losers.

Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed, happy or miserable.

Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.

Deep down, we remain human, very human and have all the desires to love and be loved by one person.

Deities are invented by fallible and finite beings in the hope and desire to create immortal perfection; unfortunately, such deities only reflect their creators and inspire their followers to similar imperfections.

Desire and dedication are everything!

Desire can be as fragile as it is sudden.

Desire dazzles, and the sun gives life.

Desire is the great equalizer.

Desire is the motivating force behind all progress and advancement in science, art, industry and in all phases of life.

Desire is this absurdity that holds open the infinity of possibility. Ever optimistic, ever resourceful, desire tells us what it sees as it speeds ahead on its divine wings. What we cannot see, desire describes, and then it goads us to travel on until we have given birth to Joy.

Desire looks clear from the eyes of a lovely bride: power as strong as the founded world

Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.

Desire sets our compass, but real life steers our course.

Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.

Desire can blind us to the hazards of our enterprises.

Desire, despair, desire. So many monsters.

Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.

Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.

Desire is individual. Happiness is common.