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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

~ It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny. ~

Eric Hoffer

~ The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him "better". ~

Friedrich Nietzsche

~ Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one's own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude. ~

Henri Frederic Amiel

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

Thomas Macaulay

~ When we exaggerate our friends tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own virtue. ~

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

~ If you [Americans] are sincere in your desire for peace and security, we have answered you. ~

Osama bin Laden

~ Agriculture is for living; mind culture is for life. Skills are for shaping material things so that they cater more for the comfort of man; studies are for shaping attitudes, feelings, desires, emotions and impulses of man, so that they may confer more peace, more joy and more fortitude on man. ~

Sri Sathya Sai Baba

~ Success is very ephemeral. You depend entirely on the desire of others, which makes it difficult to relax. ~

Eva Green

~ The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind. ~

Harriet Rubin

~ You must lay aside your greed; have no unworthy motive in your desire to become rich and powerful. It is legitimate and right to desire riches, if you want them for the sake of your soul, but not if you desire them for the lists of the flesh. ~

Wallace D. Wattles

~ It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion. ~

Dame Rebecca West

~ The tenacity and desire to win which he has worked with since he was a child have carried him to the top in a sporting discipline of enormous difficulty. ~

Fernando Alonso

~ The King sisters must be thanked for their desire to protect this land. Without their tenacity and the support from their families, this deal would never have come together. ~

Nancy Greene

~ There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it. ~

George Bernard Shaw

~ Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds. ~

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

~ It is true that the Chinese are not so religious as the Hindus, or even as the Japanese; and they are certainly not so religious as the Christian missionaries desire them to be. ~

Hu Shih

~ Opposition of one\'s desires is the sign of the highest level of wisdom in a human being. ~

al-Baqir, Muhammad

~ Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition. ~

Adam Smith

~ It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than adversity ruins. ~

NORMAN MACDONALD

~ When wisdom reaches the acme of perfection it, will suppress the vicious instincts and injurious desires. ~

Ali bin Abu-Talib

~ All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire ~

Aristotle

~ Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do. ~

Saint Thomas Aquinas

~ It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits. ~

St. Augustine of Hippo

~ Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need. ~

Gaston Bachelard

~ Challenge, and not desire, lies at the heart of seduction. ~

Jean Baudrillard

~ Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing the service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large. ~

Mahatma Gandhi 1869

~ Isn't the fulfillment of our duty towards our neighbor an expression of deepest desire? ~

Dag Hammarskjold 1905

~ We are motivated by a keen desire for praise and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves even in those books which they write in contempt of glory inscribe their names. ~

Cicero

~ Stress: The confusion created when one's mind overrides the body's basic desire to choke the living daylights out of some jerk who desperately deserves it ~

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