"It is much easier to extinguish a first desire than to satisfy all of those that follow it."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Mind, Desire, Control, Emotion, Temptation

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"The heart has the ability to drive your reality, put into action by your thoughts and intuition."

Steven Redhead, British Author

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"I cannot squeeze the stars, but I can squeeze my mind to feel the moon compressed."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

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"There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do, our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer."

William S. Burroughs, American Writer

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"He didn't know if that was really true or not, but he discovered something which was tremendously liberating: he didn't care. He was very tired of thinking and thinking and still not knowing. He was also tired of being frightened, like a man who has entered a cave on a lark and now begins to suspect he is lost. Stop thinking about it, then. That's the solution."

Stephen King, American Author

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"The thoughts that occur to me while I'm running are like clouds in the sky. Clouds of all different sizes. They come and they go, while the sky remains the same sky always. The clouds are mere guests in the sky that pass away and vanish, leaving behind the sky."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"Thought for the day: we have far too many of them. And we prize them too highly; more so than we do the power of silence, mindfulness and pure kindness."

Rasheed Ogunlaru, British Motivational Speaker

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"Any thought that you don't control has the power to become toxic."

Toni Sorenson, American Author

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"The mind that is collectively orientated is quite incapable of thinking and feeling in any other way than by projection."

Carl Jung, Swiss Psychologist

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"Open your mind to the infinite possibilities that exist for you, then create within your reality the things that you desire."

Steven Redhead, British Author

Mind, Possibility, Creation, Life

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"The heart has the ability to drive your reality, put into action by your thoughts and intuition."

"I cannot squeeze the stars, but I can squeeze my mind to feel the moon compressed."

"There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do, our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them."

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"We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves."

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