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• Desire is a teacher: When we immerse ourselves in it without guilt, shame, or clinging, it can show us something special about our own minds that allows us to embrace life fully.

  Mark Epstein

  Inspirational, Teacher, Mind

  Mark Epstein (2006). “Open to Desire: The Truth About What the Buddha Taught”, p.12, Penguin

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• I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for me what thou knowest to be best and do not put my perdition in what my autonomy and free choice prefer.

  Bayazid Bastami

  Choices, Ignorant, Cases

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• Why is discipline important? Discipline teaches us to operate by principle rather than desire. Saying no to our impulses (even the ones that are not inherently sinful) puts us in control of our appetites rather than vice versa. It deposes our lust and permits truth, virtue, and integrity to rule our minds instead.

  John F. MacArthur

  Integrity, Discipline, Lust

  John F. MacArthur (2012). “Moments of Truth: Unleashing God's Word One Day at a Time”, p.328, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I was taught that everything is attainable if you are prepared to give up, to sacrifice, to get it. Whatever you want to do, you can do it, if you want it badly enough, and I do believe that. I believe that if I wanted to run a mile is four minutes I could do it. I would have to give up everything else in my life, but I could run a mile in four minutes. I believe that if a man wanted to walk on water and was prepared to give up everything else in life, he could do that.

  Stirling Moss

  Running, Giving Up, Believe

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• The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.

  John Vanbrugh

  Want, Enough, Possession

  'The Confederacy' (1705) act 1, sc. 2

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• Where there is no power, there is never any desire to do that thing; and where there is strong desire to do a thing, it is certain proof that the power to do it is strong, and only requires to be developed and applied in the Right Way.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Strong, Strong Desire

  "The Science of Wallace D. Wattles".

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• This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century - solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others.

  Elie Wiesel

  Lonely, Loneliness, Responsibility

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• For me, the desire exists less to get myself a degree than to just go and have the whole college experience, and throw myself into the brain pool and see if I can swim.

  Joshua Jackson

  College, Swim, Brain

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

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• The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.

  Coventry Patmore

  Incredibles, Coventry, Willing

  Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Rod, the Root and the Flower”, p.13, Lulu.com

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• Why can I never set my heart on a possible thing?

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Hope, Heart, Ambition

  URSULA K. LE GUIN (1976). “THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS”

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• I had no desire to crash a man's world.

  Ida Lupino

  Men, World, Crash

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• Bring me my bow of burning gold: Bring me my arrows of desire: Bring me my spear: O clouds, unfold! Bring me my chariot of fire.

  William Blake

  Fire, Clouds, Arrows

  Milton preface (1804 - 1810)

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• Understand clearly that when a great need appears a great use appears also; when there is small need there is small use; it is obvious, then, that full use is made of all things at all times according to the necessity thereof.

  Dogen

  Needs, Use, Made

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• If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Two, Enemy

  Thomas Hobbes (2016). “Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan (Longman Library of Primary Sources in Philosophy)”, p.82, Routledge

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• No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he believes to be of value.

  Bertrand Russell

  Teacher, Believe, Teaching

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.417, Routledge

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• It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.

  William Cobbett

  Mean, Independent, Greatness

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• If one's life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital: satisfaction with just enough food, clothing, and shelter to protect yourself from the elements.

  Dalai Lama

  Simple, Simplicity, Feelings

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• Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.

  Andre Breton

  Art, Wall, Booty

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• Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.

  Bill Shoemaker

  Success, Congratulations, Athlete

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• Through some strange and powerful principle of mental chemistry which she has never divulged, nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire, that something which recognizes no such word as impossible, and accepts no such reality as failure.

  Napoleon Hill

  Strong, Powerful, Failure

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.42, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Thoughts are to the Desires as Scouts and Spies, to range abroad, and find the way to the things Desired.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Spy, Way, Range

  Thomas Hobbes (1651). “Leviathan: Or, The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill”, p.35

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• It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.

  Henry Fielding

  Nature, Want, Habit

  Henry Fielding (1832). “The History of Amelia”, p.173

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• Never give up on your dream...Perseverance is all important. If you don't have the desire and the belief in yourself to keep trying after you've been told you should quit, you'll never make it.

  Tawni O'Dell

  Inspirational, Success, Dream

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• Fortunately, the war has brought with it not alone a stark realization of what another war would mean to the world, but as well the creation of an international agency through which the nations of the world can, if they so desire, make peace a living reality.

  Cordell Hull

  War, Mean, Reality

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• The clearer you are about the consequences of your actions and the more intensely you desire to enjoy the consequences that your behaviors may lead to, the more motivated you will be.

  Brian Tracy

  May, Action, Behavior

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