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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.

  Napoleon Hill

  Principles, Burning, Use

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.62, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.

  Don Johnson

  Want, Rich, Fame

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Leadership

  Address to American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf, Philadelphia, Pa., 8 July 1896

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• You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done.

  Jack Youngblood

  Jobs, Pain, Done

  "The Mental Edge: Maximize Your Sports Potential with the Mind-body Connection". Book by Kenneth Baum and Richard Trubo, 1999.

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• A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.

  Christopher Lasch

  Children, Lying, Use

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• Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone.

  Paulo Coelho

  Profound, Eleven, Eleven Minutes

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• Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.

  Alexis Carrel

  Believe, Pride, Thinking

  "Saiva Siddhanta" by Saiva Siddhanta Mahasamajam, volume 21, p. 59, 1986.

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• Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Funny, Life

  "A Swinger of Birches: A Portrait of Robert Frost". Book by Sydney Cox, 1957.

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• I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.

  Peter McWilliams

  Happiness, Success, Order

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• Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

  Aeschylus

  Death, Doe

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• We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press

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• We demand to be coaxed and comforted, to be encouraged and gratified, so we choose a teacher who will give us what we crave for. We do not search out reality, but go after gratification and sensation.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Teacher, Reality, Giving

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Commentaries on Living 2”, p.134, M-y books ltd

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• I hear many people talk about their longing for a balanced life. What I think they are really expressing is a desire for a life with less pressure.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Stress, Thinking, People

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• Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and manifest that intense, eager, longing, craving, insistent, demanding, ravenous Desire which is akin to the persistent, insistent, ardent, overwhelming desire of the drowning man for a breath of air; of the shipwrecked or desert-lost man for a drink of water; of the famished man for bread and meat.

  Robert Collier

  Men, Overwhelming Desire, Air

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• I believe our editorial decisions reflected our constant desire to make sure that we fully cover and analyze any issue and give our viewers all the information they need.

  Jim C. Walton

  Believe, Issues, Giving

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• If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Respect, Law, Politics

  "A Treasury of Jewish Quotations". Book by Joseph L. Baron, 1996.

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• It's so much better to desire than to have.... The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen - that's the most exalting.

  Anouk Aimee

  Moments, Happens, Knows

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• If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Motivational, Men, Literature

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.357, Penguin

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• My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person.

  Janine Turner

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Judgmental

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

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  A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Beauty, Spiritual

  Letter of 1950, as quoted in "The New York Times", March 29, 1972.

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• aim, n. The task we set our wishes to.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wish, Tasks, Aim

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2354, Delphi Classics

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• I've learned... that we should be glad God doesn't give us everything we ask for.

  Andy Rooney

  Giving, I've Learned, Should

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• There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and the fear of death the poets have eloquently spoken. They command the world's sympathy. But there are also discreditable anguishes, no less excruciating than the others, but of which the sufferer dare not, cannot speak. The anguish of thwarted desire, for example.

  Aldous Huxley

  Agony, Bereavement, Suffering

  Aldous Huxley “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

  Ben Hecht

  Lying, Deceit, Satisfying

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• Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

  William Shakespeare

  Sin, Covetousness

  William Shakespeare (1752). “The Works of Shakespeare”, p.166

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