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• The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

  Solomon Ibn Gabirol

  Wisdom

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• Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

  Seneca the Elder

  Motivational, Philosophical, Mind

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• Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want, and do.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Inspirational, Life, Kindness

  Emanuel Swedenborg (1993). “The Heavenly City: A Spiritual Guidebook”, Chrysalis Books

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• He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

  William Blake

  Life, Acting, Atheism

  'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' (1790-3) 'Proverbs of Hell'

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• A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

  Mark Twain

  Happiness, Food, Needs

  Mark Twain (2008). “10 Books in 1”, p.701, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live

  Remy de Gourmont

  Art, Desire To Live

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• Desire is everything, not talent. It's the degree of one's desire that will dictate the extent of one's success, in any endeavour.

  Ken Danby

  Degrees, Talent, Endeavour

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• Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Gene Griessman, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.

  Saint Augustine

  Prayer, Longing, Christianity

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• Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Marry Your Muse : Making a Lasting Commitment to Your Creativity". Book by Jan Phillips, p. 75, 1997.

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• What is it men in women do require: The lineaments of gratified desire. What is it women do in men require: The lineaments of gratified desire.

  William Blake

  Men

  'MS Note-Book' p. 99 'Several Questions Answered' - "What is it men in women do require"

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• Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1956). “Commentaries on Living”, p.105, Penguin Books India

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• The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Clever, Cleverness, Seems

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• Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

  Bertrand Russell

  Views, Evil, Achievement

  Bertrand Russell (1985). “Contemplation and Action, 1902-14”, p.176, Psychology Press

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• There is a supply for every demand.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Demand

  Florence Scovel Shinn (2015). “The Complete Game of Life and How to Play It: The Classic Text with Commentary, Study Questions, Action Items, and Much Mor”, p.75, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• We never do what we wish when we wish it, and when we desire a thing earnestly, and it does arrive, that or we are changed, so that we slide from the summit of our wishes and find ourselves where we were.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Wish, Doe, Slides

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Betty T. Bennett (1980). “The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: "A part of the elect."”, Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1980-c1988.

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• I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.

  Dean Koontz

  Writing, Talking, Novel

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• My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Airports, Hotel Lobby, Freedom Of Speech

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.189, Vintage

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• I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Kings, Book, Cottages

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• Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Experience, Doe, Study

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• Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Food, Power, Men

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• If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

  Francis Quarles

  Love, God, Heart

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• The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Men, Want

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• How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

  Alexander Smith

  Heart, Garden, Animal Rights

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.223, tredition

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• In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Beauty, Beautiful, God

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