"Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire."

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"And the women who had thought they wanted dresses never realized that what they had wanted was happiness."

John Steinbeck, American Author

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"Lust is the blessing of the fruit of the womb."

Michael Bassey Johnson, Nigerian Philosopher

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"What I want is only a wish."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"You are moving on the chariot of your desire whatever you are thinking is always right."

Santosh Kalwar, Nepalese Poet

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"Go for the desire you dare to dream."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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

Marcel Proust, French Author

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"There are people who are never content, never appeased, forever dissatisfied-who continually look to what escapes them, convincing themselves that if only they could attain that one desire outside of reach they would be happy. It seems almost pointless to give to these people because their eyes immediately shift from the gift to stare miserably at the portion held back. Their wants, demands, expectations, appetites are never satiated, thus they refuse to be happy. And you cannot make them so."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Do you have a dream or desire that is burning a hole in your soul? Something that lights your fire and brings you simple pleasure?"

Susan C. Young, American Author

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"The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself."

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"And the women who had thought they wanted dresses never realized that what they had wanted was happiness."

"Lust is the blessing of the fruit of the womb."

"What I want is only a wish."

"We' (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) have only one desire, and that too is a discharging desire of doing 'Jagat kalyan' (world's salvation)."

"You are moving on the chariot of your desire whatever you are thinking is always right."

"Go for the desire you dare to dream."

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

"Do you have a dream or desire that is burning a hole in your soul? Something that lights your fire and brings you simple pleasure?"

"The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar."

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"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."

"Travelers repose and dream among my leaves."

"Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence."

"The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction."

"You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue."

"He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars."

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"Eternity is in love with the productions of time."

"As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers."

"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend."