"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."
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"Remember, it's Ok to get what you want from life."
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"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."
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"The space for what you want is already filled with what you settled for instead."
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"On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need."
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"Love what you have. And then go for what you want."
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"Do unto others what you want done unto you."
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"When you want what you want more than you fear what you want, you will have it."
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"Beware of what you want-for you will get it."
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"What you want is what you cannot have. What you cannot have is what you want."
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"You can't get what you want all the time in life."
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"If you dont [sic] say what you want, what's the sense of writing?"
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"Take what you want, and pay for it."
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"Be sure to have friends who demand more of you rather than tell you why you cannot do what you want to do."
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"Let yourself be gently pulled by the deeper desire of what you want."
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"Here's one of the great challenges of life. Being happy with what you have while in pursuit of what you want."
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"You work hard for what you want in life."
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"You can do what you want. But it's nature to be with your own. I want to be with my own."
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"Every day declare for yourself what you want in life. Declare it as though you have it!"
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