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• Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.

  Robert Collier

  Power, Mind, Nucleus

  Robert Collier (2013). “Riches Within Your Reach”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Philosophical, Ambition, Power

  "The Essential Spinoza: Ethics and Related Writings".

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• We all want what's been suddenly disallowed.

  Charles Olson

  Want

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• This is a very important practice. Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself.
  When you are carried away with your worries, fears, cravings, anger, and desire, you run away from yourself and you lose yourself.
  The practice is always to go back to oneself.

  Nhat Hanh

  Running, Anger, Practice

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2013). “Going Home”, p.38, Random House

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• People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Inspirational, Life, People

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• Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Want, Economics, Endless

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• Art includes everything which stimulates the desire to live; science includes everything which sharpens the desire to know. Art, even the most disinterested, the most disembodied, is the auxiliary of life.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Art, Knowledge, Science

  "Selections from All His Works".

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• We must recognize that all beings want the same thing we want. This is the way to achieve a true understanding, unfettered by artificial consideration.

  Dalai Lama

  Understanding, Want, Way

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• Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker, and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened, then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion and a genuine desire to serve others.

  Rod Stryker

  Love, Compassion, Frustrated

  "'Tantra Unveiled – An Interview with Pandit Rajmani Tigunait'". Interview with Rod Stryker, www.parayoga.com. September 25, 2000.

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• From the desert I come to thee, On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire.

  Bayard Taylor

  Wind, Fire, Desert

  Bayard Taylor (1857). “Poems of the Orient”, p.86

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• Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power.

  Walter Lippmann

  Power, Men, Source

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire.

  Robert Browning

  Love, Angel, Bird

  'The Ring and the Book' (1868-9) bk. 1, l. 1391

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• We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

  Ovid

  Coveting, Strive, Forbidden Fruit

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• Desire is proof of the availability.

  Robert Collier

  Availability, Proof

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• There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.

  Marcel Proust

  Mind, Resemblance

  Marcel Proust (1948). “The Maxims of Marcel Proust”

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• To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.

  James Allen

  Inspirational, Passion, Achieve

  James Allen, Mark Allen (1998). “As You Think”, p.76, New World Library

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• Desire is the thing you want in incipiency.

  H. Emilie Cady

  Inspirational, Want

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• Every artist would like to live in the central organ of creation... Not all are destined to get there... but our beating hearts drive us deep down, right into the pit of creation.

  Paul Klee

  Heart, Artist, Pits

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

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, God

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• First the stalk — then the roots. First the need — then the means to satisfy that need . First the nucleus — then the elements needed for its growth. The seed is a primary cause. The need, the nucleus, both are primary causes. Conditions — they are secondary. Given enough life in the nucleus, it will draw to itself the necessary means for growth regardless of conditions.

  Robert Collier

  Nature, Mean, Law

  "Riches Within Your Reach".

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• Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Self Improvement, Increase

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1811). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes”, p.163

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• The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Stars, Night, Sorrow

  "To - : One word is too often profaned" l. 13 (1824)

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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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• Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts.

  David Seabury

  Men, Way, Facts

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