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It’s a toxic desire to try to be perfect. I realized later in life that the challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole. — Jane Fonda
Motivation Quotes
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It was that impossible thing: happiness that does not wilt to reveal the thin shoots of some new desire rising from within it. ― George Saunders
Life Quotes About Happiness
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I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger. — Serena Williams
Self Inspirational Quotes
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
― Edgar Allan Poe
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I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things.
― Leonardo da Vinci
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To bear the cross means that you refrain from doing what you have the power to do. You are qualified to fulfill your desire, yet you refrain from doing so. A person like this is the strongest person. The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has the power to do.
― Watchman Nee
Watchman Nee
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to lead.
― Mary Kay Ash
Mary Kay Ash
Courage
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Happiness does not lie in getting people and things outside of you lined up exactly to suit your desires.
― Ken Keyes Jr.
Lying
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Ken Keyes Jr.
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Desire sets our compass, but real life steers our course.
― Mitch Albom
Mitch Albom
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Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat.
― Napoleon Hill
Napoleon Hill
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You wouldn't desire something if you didn't have the talent to carry it out.
― Napoleon Hill
Napoleon Hill
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If you have the desire and passion to do something, and it's within God's will, you will achieve it.
― Nick Vujicic
Nick Vujicic
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What you desire is what YOU want, what you have is what ALLAH wants.
― Nouman Ali Khan
Nouman Ali Khan
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Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.
― Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz
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Eroticism is first and foremost a thirst for otherness. And the supernatural is the supreme otherness. This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace, finally what always evades us, what is beyond, but what is always there – the unspoken, the spirit, the soul.
― Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz
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I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.
― Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
― Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
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When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
― Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
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A bride should look at everything she possibly can...just so she can experiment and see what makes her really feel beautiful or glamorous or classical or whatever she desires to be on that particular day.
― Vera Wang
Vera Wang
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You can develop a burning desire to succeed. How? Keep your mind on the things you want and off the things you don't want.
― W. Clement Stone
W. Clement Stone
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Burning