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"What everyone wants more than anything else is to be loved."
"I don't want you to praise me...Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of praise. I had rather you would point out my defects, for that will teach me something."
"All conditions and all circumstances in our lives are a result of a certain level of thinking. If we want to change the conditions and circumstances, we have to change the level of thinking that is responsible for it."
"People are going to judge you anyway, so you might as well do what you want."
"Tell me what it is you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride, married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. Instructions for living a life: pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it."
"There is an eagle in me that wants to soar."
"My friends, it is solidarity of labor we want. We do not want to find fault with each other, but to solidify our forces and say to each other: We must be together; our masters are joined together and we must do the same thing."
"Don't wait for the stars to align, reach up and rearrange them the way you want...create your own constellation"
"Create the world you want, and fill it with the opportunities that matter to you."
"It is a wonderful truth that things we want most in life-a sense of purpose, happiness and hope-are most easily attained by giving them to others."
"All I want to be is normally insane."
"Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many. The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions."
"Make a choice of what you want, who you want to be and how you're going to do it. The universe will get out of your way."
"I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world."
"There is nothing outside of yourself, look within. Everything you want is there. You are That."
"Whatever you want others to be, first be that yourself. Then, you will find others responding in like manner to you."
"My life nah important to me, but other people life important. My life is only important if me can help plenty people. If my life is just for me and my own security then me no want it. My life is for people. That's way me is."
"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself."
"Worrying is using your imagination to create something you don't want."