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Most of us have considerable prosperity in our lives. Often, we are so busy pursuing our unmet desires that we are unable to enjoy all that we already have. Allowing ourselves to really appreciate the prosperity we have created is a big step toward opening to even greater fulfillment.
Shakti Gawain
Prosperity
Big
Busy
Enjoy
Considerable
Our
Our Lives
Unable
Ourselves
Pursuing
Allowing
Step
Toward
Opening
Most
Greater
Often
Us
Created
Really
Fulfillment
Even
Lives
Desires
Appreciate
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Sigmund Freud
Strength
Religion
Illusion
Our
Fact
Instinctual
Falls
Derives
Desires
Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
Abraham Lincoln
Old
Long
Live
Every
Would
Would-Be
No-One
Desires
Often, psychological laziness will have you switch your life over to autopilot and fall asleep at the wheel rather than stay awake to what will fulfill your heart's deepest desires and your soul's purpose.
Debbie Ford
Life
You
Soul
Heart
Will
Laziness
Fall
Stay
Rather
Purpose
Over
Than
Often
Wheel
Psychological
Fulfill
Asleep
Your
Awake
Switch
Deepest
Desires
Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.
Edward Gibbon
Freedom
Poverty
Our
Despotism
Possessions
Secured
Strongest
Since
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
Love
God
Fashion
Our
We Cannot
Must
Given
Children
After
Cannot
Them
Us
Desires
When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.
Paracelsus
Work
Man
Earth
Immensity
Something
He
New
Him
Greater
Were
Than
Heaven
Create
Desires
Flows
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
Samuel Smiles
Reality
Our
Possibility
Performing
Itself
Anticipation
Intense
Often
Being
Which
Capable
Things
Desires
The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The doctrine of the blank slate... is a totalitarian's dream.
Steven Pinker
Happiness
Life
Nature
Liberty
Totalitarianism
Argument
Human Nature
Recognition
Dream
Totalitarian
Strongest
Blank
Pursuit
Pursuit Of Happiness
Blank Slate
Doctrine
May
Human
Against
Innate
Slate
Universal
Humans
Desires
If I can create the minimum of my plans and desires, there shall be no regrets.
Bessie Coleman
Minimum
Shall
No Regrets
Regrets
Create
Plans
Desires
You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires.
Claude M. Bristol
Good
You
Achievement
Good Things
Must
Mental
Feast
Attainment
Pictures
Ideas
Render
Repeatedly
Continuous
Which
Successful
Awaits
Fountain
Things
Desires
Suggestive
Flowing
Presenting
Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.
David Hume
Reflection
Understanding
Eloquence
Address
Willing
Entirely
Highest
Leaves
Affections
Itself
Pitch
Little
Room
Reason
Captivating
Desires
The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.
David Mamet
Government
Peace
Political
Evil
Power
Greed
Submission
Ways
Recognized
Must
Temper
Only
Various
Individual
Between
Parties
Opposition
Branches
Political Parties
Quite
Literally
Coercion
Founders
Necessary
Necessary Evil
Desires
One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.
Epictetus
Endeavor
Those
Excel
Excellent
Most
Themselves
Should
Things
Desires
When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there.
Everett Dirksen
Strength
Community
Minds
Those
Citadel
Said
Real
Hearts
Any
Done
Dwell
Who
Desires
Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed, happy or miserable.
Ezra Taft Benson
Daily
Thoughts
Happy
Miserable
Blessed
Our
Constantly
Want
Cursed
Whether
Choose
Actions
Desires
The individual who desires to have his sins forgiven, must seek for it through the blood of Jesus. The individual who desires to get power over sin, must likewise seek it through the blood of Jesus.
George Muller
Power
Must
Seek
Individual
Through
Sin
Over
Likewise
His
Blood
Sins
Get
Forgiven
Who
Jesus
Desires
High heels are like a beauty lift. In a flat, you can feel beautiful, but a stiletto changes your mood, how you move - like a wild, beautiful animal. The idea was always to follow a woman's wardrobe, her desires.
Giuseppe Zanotti
Beautiful
You
Woman
Animal
Beauty
Changes
Wild
Mood
High
High Heels
Follow
Lift
Idea
Feel
Like
Always
How
Move
Flat
Wardrobe
Heels
Your
Her
Desires
My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.
Ingmar Bergman
Dreams
Emotions
Thinking
Part
Tensions
Pictures
Always
Desires
Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.
John C. Maxwell
Dreams
Together
People
Benefits
Vision
Goals
Own
Every
Everyone
Way
Must
Hopes
Fact
Lead
Leaders
His
Person
Aspirations
Ignore
Bring
Desires
When the soul is understood and attended to, we can be liberated from hurry, preoccupation, unsatisfied desires, and chronic discontent.
John Ortberg
Soul
Chronic
Liberated
Hurry
Unsatisfied
Attended
Understood
Discontent
Preoccupation
Desires
The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.
Karen Horney
Women
Men
Disappointments
Hitherto
Represents
Psychology
Deposit
Actually
Desires
Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.
Marcelene Cox
Family
Face
Way
Determined
Direction
Bouquet
Like
Always
Arranger
Opposite
Opposite Direction
Children
Flowers
Desires
Just be yourself and be upfront about your expectations and desires. Don't be ambiguous and play hard to get. It doesn't work. You'll end up in the friend zone.
Mike Posner
Work
You
Yourself
Be Yourself
Just Be
About
Friend
Ambiguous
End
Up
Upfront
Expectations
Get
Just
Just Be Yourself
Your
Hard
Play
Zone
Desires
Whatever you do, don't discourage your dreaming propensity. Your heart's desires are not empty vaporings. They foreshadow possible realities. Man was made to aspire, to look upward.
Orison Swett Marden
You
Man
Heart
Made
Whatever
Possible
Dreaming
Propensity
Look
Empty
Discourage
Upward
Realities
Your
Aspire
Desires
The yogi offers his labyrinthine human longings to a monotheistic bonfire dedicated to the unparalleled God. This is indeed the true yogic fire ceremony, in which all past and present desires are fuel consumed by love divine.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Love
God
Fire
Past
Monotheistic
Indeed
Unparalleled
Divine
Consumed
True
His
Offers
Yogi
Human
Which
Fuel
Ceremony
Dedicated
Present
Desires
Bonfire
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