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When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
Napoleon Hill
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.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Why not spend some time determining what is worthwhile for us, and then go after that?
William Ross
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
Alphonse de Lamartine
It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
William Cobbett
A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
William Hazlitt
If you desire many things, many things will seem few.
Benjamin Franklin
Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed.
John D. MacDonald
Desire is the thing you want in incipiency.
Emilie Cady
The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul. Proverbs 13:19
Bible
And desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets. Ecclesiastes 12:5
There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.
Marcel Proust
We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
Samuel Smiles
A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
Sri Swami Sivananda
It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
Soren Kierkegaard
As an eagle, weary after soaring in the sky, folds its wings and flies down to rest in its nest, so does the shining Self enter the state of dreamless sleep, where one is freed from all desires.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
You are what your deep driving desire is.
