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Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants,
and to serve them one's self?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
He who wants to do good knocks at the gate:
he who loves finds the door open.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
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A man is a success if he gets up in
the morning and gets to bed at night,
and in between he does what he wants to do.
- Bob Dylan
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal
of plain living and high thinking
the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants.
Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be as big as he wants.
No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy
Nobody needs your help.
I know, I know, this is a difficult one. But it is true.
This does not mean no one wants your help,
or that no one could use your help.
It simply means the thought that another
Aspect of Divinity is powerless without you is inaccurate.
- Neale Donald Walsch
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
- Meister Eckhart
Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness;
however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Conversations with God are very different
from the usual nature of prayer.
Prayers are commonly only in one direction -
the one praying speaks and hopes God is listening.
Prayers also tend to focus on asking
for specific things or outcomes one wants,
rather than seeking to better understand the mind of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Money won't make you happy...
but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
- Zig Ziglar
If the mind wants to comprehend reality,
it will have to come out of the past and the future.
But coming out of the past and the future,
it is no longer the mind at all.
Hence the insistence of all the great masters of the world
that the door to reality is no-mind.
- Osho
The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
But such is the irresistible nature of truth,
that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.
- Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791
Government is a contrivance
of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
People have the right to expect that these wants
will be provided for by this wisdom.
- Jimmy Carter
Any man who wants to be president
is either an egomaniac or crazy.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I'm not talking about lust.
A woman in lust wants chocolate.
A woman in love wants diamonds.
- the movie How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Priorities - what's really important -
health, and doing what one wants to do -
it's certainly not money.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do real life people actually fall in love
with the idea of being in love?
Unfortunately, it is actually quite common.
Someone wants desperately to have
the husband or wife of their dreams.
They visualize the vine-covered cottage
with the white picket fence.
They choose the colors for the nursery.
They design all the aspects of their married life.
A real person stands no chance of measuring up to those fantasies.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How wrong is it for women to expect
the man to build the world she wants,
rather than set out to create it herself.
- Anais Nin
The postman wants an autograph.
The cab driver wants a picture.
The waitress wants a handshake.
Everyone wants a piece of you.
- John Lennon
Leadership is the art of getting someone else
to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The jump is so frightening
between where I am,
and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become,
I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Be the change you want to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition -
they somehow already know what you truly want to become.
- Steve Jobs
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
At the center of your being you have the answer;
you know who you are and you know what you want.
- Lao Tzu
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
Sometimes the things you really want
sneak in the back door.
Notice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Success is getting what you want;
happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dale Carnegie
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
- Bill Cosby
If you want to be happy, be.
- Leo Tolstoy
Inaction breeds doubt and fear.
Action breeds confidence and courage.
If you want to conquer fear,
do not sit home and think about it.
Go out and get busy.
- Dale Carnegie
You can do what you want to do.
- David Thomas
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
We can do anything we want to
if we stick to it long enough.
- Helen Keller
Success is a state of mind.
If you want success,
start thinking of yourself as a success.
- Joyce Brothers
"Good morning!" he said at last.
"We don't want any adventures here, thank you!
You might try over The Hill or across The Water."
- J. R. R. Tolkien
I want it said of me by those who knew me best,
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln
Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
- Tom Peters
We really have to understand the person we want to love.
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono
If you have health, you probably will be happy,
and if you have health and happiness,
you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard
We seek opinions that are likely to
support what we want to be true.
- Thomas Gilovich
If you want to be happy,
put your effort into controlling the sail, not the wind.
- Anonymous
If you want a love message to be heard,
it has got to be sent out.
To keep a lamp burning,
we have to keep putting oil in it.
- Mother Teresa
If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Don't be trapped by dogma -
which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of others' opinions
drown out your own inner voice.
And most important, have the courage
to follow your heart and intuition.
They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Everything else is secondary.
- Steve Jobs
If you want to be heroic,
Don't emulate your heroes,
learn from them.
Heroes don't follow anyone,
they set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The key to happiness is not to have what you want
but to want what you have.
- Anonymous
No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis
The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein
May your right hand always be
stretched out in friendship, never in want.
- Irish Blessing
Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want.
It is the belief that God will do what is right.
- Max Lucado
If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
Know that you can have whatever you want,
when you ask from a compassionate heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we want a love message to be heard,
it has got to be sent out.
To keep a lamp burning,
we have to keep putting oil in it.
- Mother Teresa
If you want to do it,
Do It - TODAY.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can have anything you want -
if you want it badly enough.
You can be anything you want to be,
do anything you set out to accomplish
if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
- Abraham Lincoln
There are two things to aim at in life:
first, to get what you want,
and after that to to enjoy it.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
Not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Dalai Lama
Well, I don't know what will happen now.
We've got some difficult days ahead.
But it doesn't matter with me now.
Because I've been to the mountaintop.
And I don't mind. Like any man,
I would like to live a long life.
Longevity has its place.
But I'm not concerned about that now.
I just want to do God's will.
And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain.
And I've looked over.
And I've seen the promised land.
I may not get there with you.
But I want you to know tonight, that we,
as a people, will get to the promised land.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Never say or do anything you wouldn't want
to be the last thing you ever said or did.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
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