"I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich."

Stein, Gertrude on desire   

"I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want."

Twain, Mark on desire
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"Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it."

Socrates on desire
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"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."

Sivananda, Sri Swami on desire
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"Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless."

Shaw, George Bernard on desire
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"We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes."

Proust, Marcel on desire
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"Through some strange and powerful principle of mental chemistry which she has never divulged, nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire, that something which recognizes no such word as impossible, and accepts no such reality as failure."

Hill, Napoleon on desire
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"The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed."

Mcdonald, John on desire
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"Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish."

Michelangelo on desire   

"It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire."

Diderot, Denis on desire
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"Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need."

Bachelard, Gaston on desire
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"Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it."

Barrie, Sir James M. on desire
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"If you do not develop the hunger and courage to pursue your goal, you will lose your nerve and you will give up on your dream."

Brown, Les on desire
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"Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment."

Butterworth, Eric on desire
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"It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants."

Cobbett, William on desire   

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"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."

Kennedy, John F. on change
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"If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change."

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di on change   

"Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit."

Mailer, Norman on change
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"You will never change your life until you change something you do daily."

Murdock, Mike on change
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"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."

Niebuhr, Reinhold on change
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"I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow."

Jackson, Nelson on change
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"You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on."

Heraclitus on change
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"Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim."

I Ching on change
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"There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place."

Irving, Washington on change   

"Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change."

Jackson, Jesse on change
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"All change is not growth; all movement is not forward."

Glasgow, Ellen on change
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"Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on change
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"Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you."

Freeman, James Dillet on change
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"Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there."

Dunn, Elizabeth C. on change
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"The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different."

Drucker, Peter F. on change
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"Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress."

Dickens, Charles on change
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"Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them."

Aurelius, Marcus on change
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"That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along."

Alther, Lisa on change
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"Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world."

A Course In Miracles on change
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"There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes."

Bhagavad Gita on change
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"Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others."

Braude, Jacob M. on change
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"If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians."

Buffett, Warren on change
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"Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something."

Buscaglia, Leo on change
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"People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value."

Covey, Stephen R. on change
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"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."

Darrow, Clarence on change
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