Let go desire, and thou shalt lay hold on peace.
—Thomas à Kempis
Showing posts with label want. Show all posts
Showing posts with label want. Show all posts
Thursday, April 14, 2016
Friday, December 18, 2015
Post #1970
The coyote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry. He is always poor, out of luck and friendless. The meanest creatures despise him and even the flea would desert him for a velocipede.
—Mark Twain
Wednesday, December 16, 2015
Post #1968
We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do; therefore never go abroad in search of your wants. If they be real wants, they will come home in search of you; for he that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy.
—Charles Caleb Colton
Wednesday, September 07, 2011
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Post #201
If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.
—Oscar Wilde
—Oscar Wilde
A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.
- Dave
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