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~ You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering. ~

Henri-FrÈdÈric Amiel

~ Boredom: the desire for desires. ~

Leo Tolstoy

~ Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires. ~

Lao Tzu

~ Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self ~

Arnold Toynbee

~ The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. ~

Eddie Robinson

~ Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis best to argue with judgments below our own, that the frequent spoils and victories over their reasons may settle in ourselves an esteem and confirmed opinion of our own. ~

Sir Thomas Browne

~ And protect your heart from being inclined toward what you have renounced of people and desires and wishes and option and effort and from losing patience and harmony and pleasure with God at the time of the befalling of calamity. ~

Abdul Qadir Gilani

~ Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay. ~

Sam Abell

~ I never had any other desire so strong, and so like to covetousness, as that one which I have had always, that I might be master at last of a small house and a large Garden. ~

Abraham Cowley,

~ Of all the flora and fauna on earth, it is only man that desires or needs rules. ~

Thomas Clothier

~ There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes! But you can't blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind. When we do the impossible we realize we are special people ~

Jan Ashford

~ Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment ~

Eric Butterworth

~ The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, Just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat ~

Napolean Hill

~ Getting ahead in a difficult profession - singing, acting, writing, whatever requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve ~

Sophia Loren

~ We have an innate desire to endlessly learn, grow and develop. We want to become more than what we already are. Once we yield to this inclination for continuous and never-ending improvement, we lead a life of endless accomplishments and satisfaction. ~

Chuck Gallozi

~ Desire is the presentiment of our inner abilities, and the forerunner of our ultimate accomplishments. ~

Johann Wolfgang

~ All men desire to know ~

Aristotle

~ Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases. ~

Jean Jacques Rousseau

~ As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron ~

H. L. Mencken

~ He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive. ~

Italian proverb

~ 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. And finally, there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation. ~

Dalai Lama

~ The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse -- as a LUXURY befitting a young man. ~

Henri B. Stendhal

~ Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust. ~

Zig Ziglar

~ What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires -- desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way. ~

Bertrand Russell

~ Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. ~

Sigmund Freud

~ Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. ~

G.K. Chesterton

~ Because she my friend and my wife, she has seen and brought out the best and worst of me, and she is still with me and I owe her my whole heart, soul, attention, love, and anything she desires of me. She will always be there... ~

Dagny Connolly

~ The irresistable desire to be irresistibly desired. ~

Mark Twain

~ Love and desire are the spiritís wings to great deeds. ~

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

~ A desire can overcome all objections and obstacles. ~

Gunderson

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