"It's so important to consider this question: What do I desire?"
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"The desire to serve the common good must without fail be a requisite of the soul, a necessity for personal happiness; if it issuesnot from there, but from theoretical or other considerations, it is not at all the same thing."
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"Money is a guarantee that we may have what we want in the future. Though we need nothing at the moment it insures the possibility of satisfying a new desire when it arises."
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"[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it"
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"It is madness to risk losing what you need in pursuing what you simply desire."
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"A person who believes, as she did, that things fit: that there is a whole of which one is a part, and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it."
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"The truly patient man neither complains of his hard lot nor desires to be pitied by others. He speaks of his sufferings in a natural, true, and sincere way, without murmuring, complaining, or exaggerating them."
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"Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery."
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"Your intent to find a mate sends out 'strands of consciousness' however, composed of desire and intent. Like detectives, these search the world, looking in a completely different way than a physical sleuth. The world is probed with your characteristics in mind, seeking for someone else with characteristics that will best suit your own."
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"The greatest flood has the soonest ebb; the sorest tempest the most sudden calm; the hottest love the coldest end; and from the deepest desire oftentimes ensues the deadliest hate."
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"Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions."
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"Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do)."
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"All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire."
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"I don't have the desire that I think a lot of performers feel - to get the applause. It's not life or death for me. I love it and it's exciting, but it's not something I crave or miss, so I don't need to perform; I don't have that desire. I like to sing, and I love doing what I'm doing, but it's not a dire need."
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"Success comes from repeated efforts day in and day out. You learn from your mistakes, make adjustments and continue pressing forward until you achieve the results you desire."
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"Body. Soul. Mind. Sensations: the body. Desires: the soul. Reasoning: the mind."
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"The world says that time is money, but I say that money is time. In order to earn enough money to satisfy his desires, one must sacrifice inordinate amounts of time. For me, that sacrifice is too great."
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"Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless."
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"Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself."
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"She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions."
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