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• True peacefulness comes from abandoning the illustion that satisfying desires brings pleasure.

  Joan Z. Borysenko

  Happiness, Pleasure, Peacefulness

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• Some form of self-discipline is necessary to transmute material desires into spiritual aspirations.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Spiritual, Self, Discipline

  Paramahansa Yogananda (2007). “God Talks With Arjuna”, p.959, Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.

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• When we submit to God's plans, we can trust our desires. Our assignment is found at the intersection of God's plan and our pleasures.

  Max Lucado

  God, Christian, Religious

  Max Lucado (2012). “Just Like Jesus Devotional: A Thirty-Day Walk With the Savior”, p.79, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It is very common for us to desire most what we are least qualified to obtain.

  Samuel Johnson

  Common, Qualified

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.38

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• Can one desire too much of a good thing?

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Too Much, You Like It

  William Shakespeare (1860). “As You Like it”, p.79

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• All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!

  Belva Plain

  Bird, Caught, Helpless

  Belva Plain (2009). “Evergreen”, p.296, Dell

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• A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action.

  Paul J. Meyer

  Burning, Action, Humans

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• Not only do you want to leave the audience wanting more, you want to leave yourself wanting more.

  Carole King

  Want, Wanting More, Audience

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• One must desire something to be alive.

  Margaret Deland

  Dream, Alive

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• Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.

  Denis Waitley

  Spring, Winning, Energy

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• Don't allow your animal nature to rule your reason.

  Rumi

  Nature, Animal, Reason

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• I am, first of all, a Christian and, secondly, a person with very very serious personal opinion, so I'm motivated by many many things and, certainly, not by the need or desire to satisfy other people's ideas of who I am.

  Ken Hensley

  Christian, Who I Am, Personal Opinions

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• Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man.

  Henry George

  Men, Beast, He Man

  Henry George (2005). “Progress and Poverty”, p.99, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future.

  Samuel Johnson

  Past, Mind, Sorrow

  Samuel Johnson (1791). “The Rambler”, p.270

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• The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn't matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.

  Bill Vaughan

  Strong, Greed, Contentment

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• Hee begins to die, that quits his desires.

  George Herbert

  Quitting, Dies

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.315

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• Humble Hearts have humble desires.

  George Herbert

  Heart, Humble, Humble Heart

  George Herbert (1853). “The poetical works of George Herbert [and The synagogue, by C. Harvey.]. With life, critical diss., and notes, by G. Gilfillan”, p.292

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• No Church-yard is so handsom, that a man would desire straight to bee buried there.
  [No churchyard is so handsome that a man would desire straight to be buried there.]

  George Herbert

  Men, Church, Handsome

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• The desire to play has always been in me. I remember my first experience at about four or five of really dying to sing and dying to play that came from no one telling me to do so.

  Alicia Keys

  Play, Dying, Four

  "Soul sister number one" by Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2004.

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• children are simply human beings who are allowed to do what everyone else really desires to do, as for instance, to fly kites, or when seriously wronged to emit prolonged screams for several minutes.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Children, Kites, Scream

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• There is something so sad about going online and seeing almost everyone shouting ‘Notice me, notice me!’ Which is such a human desire—to be acknowledged. But me responding to that with some sort of ‘You’re noticed, you’re seen’ only perpetuates the loneliness. Because I’m not seeing you; I’m not noticing you. And whoever you are, you so deserve to be noticed and valued. I feel lucky to have not grown up with the Internet because it forced me to get out, struggle and be so messy.

  Taylor Schilling

  Loneliness, Struggle, Lucky

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