True happiness consists of desiring little.
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Desiring
/dɪˈzaɪ(ə)ɹɪŋ/
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But, knowing precisely sadness and love and death, and that they are vain images when we observe them from the calm space where we should shut ourselves in, he kept on weeping, and desiring love, and fearing death.
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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
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As is written in the Gita: Fulfill your duties without desiring their fruit.
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