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"It is in the nature of man to want what he does not have. This modern concern for happiness seems a real testimony of its absence."
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"Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself."

"I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited."

"The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired."

"It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite."

"Somewhere between 'not enough' and 'not at all.' I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it - to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once. But they never gave that to me. Never, not once."

"Be more than a person she would settle for... be a person she would yearn for."

"Without 'Gnan' (True Knowledge of the Self), desire(s) will not go away."

"Look into your heart- and go after what you really want."
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"To believe in the truth of Christ is to be introduced to another form of hatred, and that is not sharing Him."

"At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you."

"A good work ethic is not so much a concern for hard work but rather one for responsibility. There have been a great many men and women who have in fact used work or hustle or selfish ambition as an escape from real responsibility, an escape from purpose. In matters such as these, the hard worker is just as dysfunctional as the sloth."

"Faith, in its most correct form, never removes responsibility; it removes fear of responsibility. The results are complete opposites with the greater saying, 'God's will is my delight."

"There is a difference between criticizing people and criticizing a people's uninformed ideals. That is, unless one defines himself or others by their ideals, then he is offended, and usually offended secretly. Because oddly enough, this person is the same person quickest to resort to dismissive name-calling, such as 'bigot' or 'zealot'. And oddly enough, he is always the one, the 'open-minded' one, who adamantly protests for, not only himself, but others not to listen to any type of scholarly theological truth inherently for the sake of his own personal, moral beliefs."
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