"Within you is the kingdom of serenity that can create all the prosperity you could ever want."
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"I want to be the person that is the first person there and the last person to leave. That's who I want to be, because I think the road to success is through commitment, and through the strength to drive through that commitment when it gets hard. And it is going to get hard and you're going to want to quit sometimes, but it'll be colored by who you are, and more by who you want to be."
"I don't want to be an icon. I want to be an idea. I want to represent possibilities."
"I can tell you how to get what you want: You've just got to keep a thing in view and go for it and never let your eyes wander to right or left or up or down. And looking back is fatal."
"People say that death is a part of life and there must be something to it, but I just see it as bad news and I want everybody to stop sugarcoating it."
"If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teach them how to use television."
"I want him to be happy. And I want you to be happy, too. Even if you can only find that happiness without me."
"I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it."
"Let us be what God likes, so long as we are His, and let us not be what we want to be, if it is against his intention."
"The flower bends when the wind wants it to, and you must become like that-that is, filled with deep # trust ."
"Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such."
"If you want to be surrounded by Souls, become identified with your Soul. It takes one to know one!"
"Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment."
"Why, he wondered, did people who had been asleep always want to make out that they were extremely wide-awake?"
"I want to live a full life - period."
"If you want to grow in writing songs that will express the wonders of God, immerse yourself in God."
"In the end, money should serve something greater than just money. It should serve you, your family, the people you want to touch."
"Variety is the spice of life. We all want surprises."
"I want to become the first European floor leader to succeed in the NBA. I want to be the standard-bearer and prove we can succeed here."
"I want to feel all my feelings, to have every feeling a person can have and never not feel it."