"If you wish to find Love, don't look for the object of love but rather for the source of love. There you will find the Beloved."
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"ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities."
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"The tree laden with fruits always bends low. If you wish to be great, be lowly and meek."
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"Suffering is wishing things were other than they are."
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"If I were not a king, I would be a university man; and if it were so that I must be a prisoner, if I might have my wish, I would desire to have no other prison than that library [the Bodleian]."
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"If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or, trust me, you haven't a chance."
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"It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul."
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"There is nothing that I so greatly admire as purposefulness. I have an enormous respect for people who know exactly what they are doing and where they are going. Such people are compact and integrated. They have clear edges. They give an impression of invulnerability and balance, and I wish I were one of them."
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"To achieve a goal, a dream, a wish, you must plan it out for success!"
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"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command."
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"We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act."
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"My point is, if you want to achieve anything in life, it is not enough to merely wish for it. You must develop that kind of 4:30 AM discipline that distinguishes you from others."
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"When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it."
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"My mind is a chest of drawers. When I wish to deal with a subject, I shut all the drawers but the one in which the subject is to be found. When I am wearied, I shut all the drawers and go to sleep."
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"The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself."
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"Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some."
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"Candy is childhood, the best and bright moments you wish could have lasted forever."
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"The fruit we wish to pick tomorrow lies hidden in the seed of today. The goals we are to read and the problems we are to solve tomorrow depend upon today's diligence, hope and faith, today's conviction of the almightiness of good."
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"If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered."
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"I wish you'd keep my hands to yourself."
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