#desires

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Growth is kinda built into everyone's genes. It's built into management's genes, the salesman's genes, the investors' desires. People expect companies to grow. ↗

— Andy Grove

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Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego. ↗

— Taylor Hackford

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When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

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That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change. ↗

— Francesca Annis

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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

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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds. ↗

— Saint Teresa of Avila

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