"I feel no need and have no desire to give any attention to other people's opinion of me."
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"To succeed takes more than the desire to win. It also takes the acceptance that we could fail."
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"If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire."
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"While just looking, we are always hunting among objects, looking for what we desire or fear, endeavoring to recognize some pattern; on the other hand, objects themselves always "stare back," vie for our attention, throw at us their lures and endeavor to entrap us."
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"Genius never desires what does not exist."
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"The desires of the heart...are as crooked as a corkscrew."
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"I want to encourage you by letting you know that there's hope for you and your situation whatever you are dealing with. God is intimately involved with every detail of your future and His desire is for you to be an overcomer."
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"Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us."
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"The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom..."
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"let's get away from all the clever humans who put words in our mouth let's only say what our hearts desire."
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"Your radiance shines in every atom of creation yet our petty desires keep it hidden."
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"Loosen the bonds of avarice from your hands and neck."
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"In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre."
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"Great minds against themselves conspire, and shun the cure they most desire."
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"Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well."
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"Beyond my desire to boycott the torture factories, I am also way happier when I eat a plant-based diet, and I feel about a thousand times more energetic."
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"I understood . . . that those who desired salvation should act like the trustee who, though having control over great possessions, regards not an iota of them as his own."
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"Always without desire we must be found, If its deep mystery we would sound; But if desire always within us be, Its outer fringe is all that we shall see."
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"The sage seeks freedom from desire. He does not collect precious things. He learns not to hold on to ideas. He brings men back to what they have lost."
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"I am grateful to realize that my desires do not entitle me to add to another's suffering."
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