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Lord George Gordon Byron
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| "A king is one who has few things to desire and many things to
fear." | |
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Francis Bacon
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| "A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires." | |
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Francesco Petrarca Petrarch
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| "Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no
grief; nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary; nor that this
is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire." | |
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Thomas à Kempis
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| "Desire and force between them are responsible for all our Actions;
desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary." | |
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Blaise Pascal
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| "Desires must be simple and definite. They defeat their own purpose
should they be too many, too confusing, or beyond a man"s training to
accomplish." | |
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George S. Clason
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| "Discontents arise from our desires oftener than from our
wants." | |
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Proverb
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| "Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by keen
desire and by definite resolution to do." | |
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Edgar F. Roberts
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| "Greater things are believed of those who are absent." | |
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Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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| "I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather
than in attempting to satisfy them." | |
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John Stuart Mill
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| "I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire,
and that?s to get rid of all my other desires." | |
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John Cleese
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| "I"ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust;
Now all that"s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to
dust." | |
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Alexander Sergeievich Pushkin
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| "Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive
performance." | |
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William Shakespeare
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| "It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that
follow it." | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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| "It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live
only for the gratification of it." | |
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Aristotle
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| "Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands." | |
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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| "One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is
escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless
dreariness, from the fetters of one"s own ever-shifting desires." | |
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Albert Einstein
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| "Our deeds follow us, and what we have been makes us what we
are." | |
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John Dykes
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| "Our desires attract supporting reasons as a magnet the iron
fillings." | |
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W. MacNeile Dixon
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| "Our desires presage the capacities within us; they are harbingers of
what we shall be able to accomplish. What we can do and want to do is
projected in our imagination, quite outside ourselves, and into the
future. We are attracted to what is already ours in secret. Thus
passionate anticipation transforms what is indeed possible into dreamt-for
reality." | |
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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| "The man of genius knows what he is aiming at; nobody else knows. And
he alone knows when something comes between him and his object. In the
course of generations, however, men will excuse you for not doing as they
do, if you will bring enough to pass in your own way." | |
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Henry David Thoreau
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| "The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our
desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes." | |
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Jonathan Swift
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| "There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble
and the economic ones are incomprehensible." | |
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Alec Douglas-Home
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| "Those who are nearest to God are they who are first to give a
salutation." | |
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Prophet Muhammad
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| "To gain a good reputation, endeavor to be what you desire to
appear." | |
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Socrates
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| "Two things only the people anxiously desire--bread and
circuses." | |
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Decimus Junius Juvenalis Juvenal
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| "Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring
it." | |
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George Bernard Shaw
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| "We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but
gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to change
because it was intolerable becomes unimportant. We have not managed to
surmount the obstacle, as were absolutely determined to do, but life has
taken us around it, led us past it, and then if we turn around to gaze at
the remote past, we can barely catch sight of it, so imperceptible has it
become." | |
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Marcel Proust
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| "We would rather die on our feet than live on our knees." | |
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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| "When the mind is disturbed, it is attracted by ten thousand things.
With attraction, craving will arise. With craving, the desire to obtain
things to satisfy craving will emerge. The mind that desires is rooted in
earthly existence and is controlled by the pa-k"ua of Later Heaven." | |
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| "You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting
with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and
the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment
of the desires." | |
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Robert Collier
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| "You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as
your dominant aspiration." | |
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James Allen
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| "Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend,
very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until
that desire becomes a burning obsession." | |
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Napoleon Hill
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