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It is, after all, hard to know what to choose when you aren't really sure what you want.
— William B. Irvine
When you find real love - protect and preserve the sweetness and intimacy of your gift.
— Bryant McGill
one wonderful way to tame our tendency to always want more is to persuade ourselves to want the things we already have.
— William B. Irvine
Not one day of my mother's adult life passed without some critical demand on her maternal role, without some urgent response from her.
— Rosemary Mahoney
The right way to requite evil, according to Jesus, is not to resist it. This saying of Christ removes the Church from the sphere of politics and law.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Most of us are "living the dream" living, that is, the dream we once had for ourselves.
— William B. Irvine
the easiest way for us to gain happiness is to learn how to want the things we already have.
— William B. Irvine
reason tends to be the servant rather than the master of desire.
— William B. Irvine
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— Trevor Dunn
Your primary desire, says Epictetus, should be your desire not to be frustrated by forming desires you won't be able to fulfill.
— William B. Irvine
The life contest is primarily a competition for available energy.
— Ludwig Boltzmann
Epictetus echoes this advice: We should keep in mind that "all things everywhere are perishable.
— William B. Irvine
In the face of pain there are no heroes.
— George Orwell
When I saw 'Chess' in London, I thought it was horrible. It was so static. People were coming down front and just facing the audience, singing.
— Donna McKechnie
One reason children are capable of joy is because they take almost nothing for granted.
— William B. Irvine
use our reasoning ability to drive away "all that excites or affrights us.
— William B. Irvine
Shakespeare's exquisite imagining belies our total inability to live in the present moment.
— Harold Bloom
We need, in other words, to learn how to enjoy things without feeling entitled to them and without clinging to them.
— William B. Irvine
Pre-Socratic philosophy begins ... with the discovery of Nature; Socratic philosophy begins with the discovery of man's soul."3
— William B. Irvine
The gowne is his that we ares it, and the world his that enjoyes it.
— George Herbert
When it comes to desiring, we are all experts. If there were an Olympics of desiring, we would all make the team.
— William Braxton Irvine
How, after all, can we convince ourselves to want the things we already have? THE STOICS THOUGHT they had an answer to this question.
— William B. Irvine
The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Indeed, anger can be thought of as anti-joy.
— William B. Irvine