"Success is very ephemeral. You depend entirely on the desire of others, which makes it difficult to relax."
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"From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. ... To group all facts under some general laws."
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"Formerly, when I would feel a desire to understand someone, or myself, I would take into consideration not actions, in which everything is relative, but wishes. Tell me what you want and I'll tell you who you are."
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"Act as if everything you desire is already here...treat yourself as if you already are what you'd like to become."
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"An inner knowing, along with a burning desire, is the prerequisite for becoming a person capable of manifesting his or her heart's desires."
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"Within you is the divine capacity to manifest and attract all you desire."
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"Which 20% of sources are causing 80% of my problems and unhappiness? Which 20% of sources are resulting in 80% of my desired outcomes and happiness?"
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"I experienced in myself a certain capacity for judging which I have doubtless received from God, like all the other things that I possess; and as He could not desire to deceive me, it is clear that He has not given me a faculty that will lead me to err if I use it aright."
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"Our credulity is a part of the imperfection of our natures. It is inherent in us to desire to generalize, when we ought, on the contrary, to guard ourselves very carefully from this tendency."
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"Free from desire, you realize the mystery."
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"Whatsoever misfortunes there are Here in this world or in the next, They all have their root in Ignorance And in the accumulation of Longing and Desire."
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"For this was the round of love: fear which leads on desire, tenderness and fury, and that brutal anguish which triumphantly follows pleasure."
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"You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration."
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"The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition."
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"Love is a desire for that lost half of ourselves."
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"We know desire is rooted in absence and yearning. What you don't have is often ten times richer than what you actually experience. An affair is a perfect erotic plot because it fits the erotic equation of psychotherapist Jack Morin: "Attraction plus obstacle equals excitement."."
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"I'm in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint."
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"When you find your heart's desire, you'll have the key to unlocking your potential in every other part of your life."
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"To worship God in truth is further to admit that we are entirely contrary to Him, and that He is willing to make us like Himself if we desire it. Who will be so imprudent as to turn himself away, even for a moment, from the reverence, love, service and continual adoration which we most justly owe Him?"
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"They all talked at once, their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an incontrovertible fact, as people will when their desires become words."
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