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• A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

  Sivananda

  Love, Peace, Buddhist

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• The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, God

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• Let your desires be ruled by reason.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Reason

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• I'm glad I want everything in the world - good and bad - bitter and sweet - I want it all.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Sweet, World, Want

  Georgia O'Keeffe, Anita Pollitzer (1990). “Lovingly, Georgia: The Complete Correspondence of Georgia O'Keeffe and Anita Pollitzer”, Touchstone Books

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• Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.

  Richard Bach

  Life, Fear, Listening

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• The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat, and wool and household stuff. It is the means of freedom and benefit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Freedom, Mean, Feel Good

  "The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude".

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• Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Ambition

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity – How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune...”, p.2038, e-artnow

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• Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

  Sivananda

  Real, Evil, Mind

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• An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

  Samuel Smiles

  Reality, Anticipation, Clarity

  Samuel Smiles (2014). “Self-Help”, p.153, Cambridge University Press

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• To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Soul, Alive, World

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona”, p.12, e-artnow

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• Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.

  Bobby Unser

  Motivational, Positive, Men

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• In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

  Jane Smiley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Jane Smiley from May 29, 2011

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• We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Business, Advertising, Advertisements

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivational, Inspiring, Fear

  Twitter post from Dec 26, 2014

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• The desire to know is natural to good men.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Men, Good Man, Natural

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• It sometimes seems that we have only to love a thing greatly to get it.

  Robert Collier

  Love, Sometimes, Seems

  Robert Collier (2013). “Riches Within Your Reach”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• The desire, which is accomplished, is sweet to the soul.

  Solomon

  Sweet, Soul, Accomplished

  "A new translation of the Proverbs of Solomon, with notes by W. French and G. Skinner".

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• If there is nothing left to desire, there is everything to fear, an unhappy state of happiness.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Unhappy, States, Left

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.115, Shambhala Publications

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• When our desires are fulfilled, we never fail to realize the wealth of imagination and the paucity of reality.

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  Reality, Imagination, Realizing

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• When desire dies, fear is born.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Anxiety, Born, Worldly Wisdom

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.115, Shambhala Publications

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• It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Happiness, Firsts, Easier

  Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield, James Forrester, Hugh Blair, James Fordyce, William Cecil Baron Burghley (1831). “Practical Morality; Or, A Guide to Men and Manners: Consisting of Lord Chesterfield's Advice to His Son. To which is Added, a Supplement Containing Extracts from Various Books, Recommended by Lord Chesterfield to Mr. Stanhope. Together with the Polite Philosopher; Or, An Essay on the Art which Makes a Man Hapopy in Himself, and Agreeable to Others; Dr. Blair's Advice to Youth; Dr. Fordyce on Honour as a Principle; Lord Burghley's Ten Percepts to His Son; Dr. Franklin's Way to Wealth; and Pope's Universal Prayer”, p.175

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• I am dead already. Physical death will make no difference in my case. I am timeless being. I am free of desire or fear, because I do not remember the past or imagine the future. Where there are no names and shapes, how can there be desire and fear? With desirelessness comes timelessness. I am safe, because what is not, cannot touch what is. You feel unsafe, because you imagine danger. Of course, your body as such is complex and vulnerable and needs protection. But not you. Once you realize your own unassailable being, you will be at peace.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Death, Peace, Fear

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• Desire makes everything blossom

  Marcel Proust

  Anticipation

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• The key that unlocks energy is desire. It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited.

  Earl Nightingale

  Life, Motivational, Real

  Robert C. Worstell, Earl Nightingale “How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds - Part IV”, Lulu.com

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• Someday I'll wish upon a star.

  Yip Harburg

  Stars, Wish, Someday

  Song: Over the Rainbow

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