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• Quote 3090

  Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful

  by: Albert Schweitzer

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• Quote 3089

  If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea

  by: Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger Vicomte de Saint-Exupery

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• Quote 3045

  You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

  by: Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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• Quote 2910

  The discipline of desire is the background of character.

  by: John Locke

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• Quote 2900

  Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams

  by: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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• Quote 2859

  There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly

  by: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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• Quote 2735

  Health is my expected heaven

  by: John Keats

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• Quote 2708

  Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous - who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?

  by: John Keats

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• Quote 2667

  It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite

  by: Søren Aabye Kierkegaard

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• Quote 2616

  I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things

  by: Franz Kafka

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• Quote 2569

  People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains

  by: Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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• Quote 2533

  Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else

  by: Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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• Quote 2531

  Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die

  by: Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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• Quote 2415

  Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something

  by: Andrew Carnegie

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• Quote 2357

  We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued

  by: Jean de La Bruyère

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• Quote 2351

  As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid

  by: Jean de La Bruyère

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• Quote 2285

  Had I but plenty of money, money enough and to spare, the house for me, no doubt, were a house in the city-square

  by: Robert Browning

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• Quote 2260

  As is your sort of mind, so is your sort of search: You'll find what you desire

  by: Robert Browning

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• Quote 2254

  When a man's busy, why leisure strikes him as wonderful pleasure: faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightaway he wants to be busy

  by: Robert Browning

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• Quote 2184

  In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike

  by: Harriet Beecher-Stowe

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• Quote 2175

  The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much

  by: Francis Beaumont

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• Quote 2158

  If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable

  by: Louis Dembitz Brandeis

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• Quote 2133

  Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?

  by: Joseph Butler

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• Quote 2100

  Man's desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.

  by: William Blake

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• Quote 2085

  Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained

  by: William Blake

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