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"If we want to make relatively minor changes in our lives, we can perhaps appropriately focus on our attitudes and behaviors. But if we want to make significant, quantum change, we need to work on our basic paradigms."
"But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do."
"We want Paul's theology and his results but not his methods."
"Once you are completely comfortable with charging, then - and only then - will you allow yourself to do things for free. That way if you perform a kindness for another, you will know that you are doing it because you want to, not because you have been manipulated into it or are maneuvering in the hopes of winning their affection."
"If you really want the good of others, the whole universe may stand against you and cannot hurt you. It must crumble before your power of the Lord Himself in you if you are sincere and really unselfish."
"I would never want the responsibility of being the prettiest girl on screen; it's too much."
"There is nothing I want but your Presence. In friendship, time dissolves."
"Open your hands if you want to be held."
"Every time I hangout with Sandra Bullock I think I want to be her. I want to be married to Jesse James."
"Open your arms if you want the Beloved's embrace."
"You must ask for what you really want. / Don't go back to sleep. / The door is round and open. / Don't go back to sleep."
"Each moment from all sides rushes to us the call to love. We are running to contemplate its vast green field. Do you want to come with us?"
"I want to say words that flame as I say them, but I keep quiet and don't try to make both words fit in one mouthful."
"Women talk when they want to. Or don't."
"I'm a dreadful romantic. No matter what I go through in life, I want to fall in love with a man."
"At 21, you can live life with reckless abandon, as reckless as your abandon is. Then, at 30, there's something there are the supposed to be's. You're like, "I'm supposed to be doing this. I'm supposed to be doing that." You start measuring your life by what you think you're supposed to be doing. Having recently turned 40, it's like, "What the hell?! Why am I worried about what I'm supposed to be doing? What do I want to do?" You become fine with wherever the road takes you."
"Try to treat others as you would want them to treat you"
"I looked at Justin, and I was like: “Do you want me to go onstage for you?""
"I eventually want to be the anchor of the first trillion-dollar company."
"I love to write and I assure you I write regularly... But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it."
