"The law of attraction is this: You don't attract what you want. You attract what you are."
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"If you really want to examine your strength, see how many times a day you are disturbed."
"The difference between MUST & SHOULD is the life you want and the life you have."
"If different cultures connect with each other, they are less likely to want to shoot each other."
"There are times when the adoption process is exhausting and painful and makes you want to scream. But, I am told, so does childbirth."
"Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best."
"If you want to achieve anything in this world, you have to get used to the idea that not everyone will like you."
"Life is hard and astonishingly complicated.... No one great reform will make it easy. Most of us who work -- or want to work -- will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy."
"To grow: that is your deepest and truest need when you say, 'I want to be an actor.'"
"I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write."
"Keep your mind focused on what you want and act accordingly. You will achieve success!"
"When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop."
"I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected."
"When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance."
"No matter what happens, no matter how far you seem to be away from where you want to be, never stop believing that you will somehow make it."
"I want to crush everyone. I want to outsmart everyone."
"It's too late to fall in love with Sharon Tate / But it's too soon to ask me for the words I want carved on my tomb."
"You know, I’m fan of women in general. I don’t want to discriminate."
"Music should be like making love. Sometimes you want it soft and tender, another time you want it hard and aggressive."
"Whenever you want to produce something, do not depend upon the outside source: go deep and seek the Infinite Source."