"If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it: toil is the law."
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"If you want resurrection, you must have crucifixion... The hoarder, the one in us that wants to keep, to hold on, must be killed."
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"When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction."
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"Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived."
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"We are only as blind as we want to be."
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"Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile. Smile five times a day at someone you don't really want to smile at at all. Do it for peace."
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"Begin to listen to what you say. Don't say anything that you don't want to become true for you."
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"Spend 5 minutes at the beginning of each day remembering we all want the same things (to be happy and be loved) and we are all connected to one another."
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"I want to say, without hesitation, the purpose of our life is happiness."
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"Please raise your children with love and non-judgement. Tell them everyone has the right to love who they want to love. It shouldn’t threaten you or who you are."
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"I don't get all the women that I want... I get all the women that want me."
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"It's not who wants to sleep with you; It's who wants to sleep with you again."
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"So when I cease to be I want to go back...to the sea! Oh for the life of a sardine! That is the life for me!"
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"The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor."
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"Wear perfume wherever you want to be kissed!"
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"God wants people to meet Him when they meet us."
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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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"The fact is that we don't want to be free. What is responsible for our problems is the fear of losing what we have and what we know."
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"Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel."
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"We all dream about love, want to be in love, and have been hurt by love."
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