“ I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept it without wishing I had given it away. ”
- Louise Brooks- Copy
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“ I didn't get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it. ”
- Estee Lauder- Copy
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“ It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier. Desiring is helpful, but work and desire are invincible. ”
- Thomas Robert Gaines- Copy
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“ A man of humanity is one who, in seeking to establish himself, finds a foothold for others and who, desiring attainment for himself, helps others to attain. ”
- Confucius- Copy
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“ Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. ”
- Francis Herbert Bradley- Copy
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“ When you reach the thing you were desiring, if it doesn't satisfy you, it was not what you were desiring. ”
- C. S. Lewis- Copy
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“ How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right? ”
- Robert Mallet- Copy
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“ Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. ”
- Epicurus- Copy
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“ Before strongly desiring anything, we should examine the happiness of those who already posses it. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ Before desiring something passionately one should inquire into the happiness of the man who possesses it. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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