"You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want."
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"Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do."
"Remember, it's Ok to get what you want from life."
"Words can never really help you say, what you want them to anyway. And words can never really help you see, what you really want to be."
"The space for what you want is already filled with what you settled for instead."
"On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need."
"Love what you have. And then go for what you want."
"Do unto others what you want done unto you."
"When you want what you want more than you fear what you want, you will have it."
"Beware of what you want-for you will get it."
"What you want is what you cannot have. What you cannot have is what you want."
"You can't get what you want all the time in life."
"If you dont [sic] say what you want, what's the sense of writing?"
"Take what you want, and pay for it."
"Be sure to have friends who demand more of you rather than tell you why you cannot do what you want to do."
"Let yourself be gently pulled by the deeper desire of what you want."
"Here's one of the great challenges of life. Being happy with what you have while in pursuit of what you want."
"You work hard for what you want in life."
"You can do what you want. But it's nature to be with your own. I want to be with my own."
"Every day declare for yourself what you want in life. Declare it as though you have it!"