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• Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.

  David Frost

  Love, Success, Encouraging

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You want to know how Egyptians pulled the brains out of mummies. or built the pyramids, or cursed King Tut's tomb? My dad's your man.

  Rick Riordan

  Kings, Dad, Men

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• Only Thee That I want thee, only thee---let my heart repeat without end. All desires that distract me, day and night, are false and empty to the core. As the night keeps hidden in its gloom the petition for light, even thus in the depth of my unconsciousness rings the cry ---`I want thee, only thee'. As the storm still seeks its end in peace when it strikes against peace with all its might, even thus my rebellion strikes against thy love and still its cry is ---`I want thee, only thee'.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Heart, Night, Light

  Rabindranath Tagore (2013). “Gitanjali”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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  If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Dalai Lama, Victor Chan (2012). “The Wisdom of Compassion: Stories of Remarkable Encounters and Timeless Insights”, p.11, Random House

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• If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 02, 2017

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  The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

  Dolly Parton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Sep 12, 2013

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• Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

  Dale Carnegie

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.102, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Every now and then, a person must do something simply because he wants to, because it seems to him worth doing. And that does not make it worthless or a waste of time.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Doe, Waste, Wasting Time

  E.L. Konigsburg (2011). “The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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  Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Be careful about wanting what others have. There is always a price. Perhaps God didn’t give it to you, because He knew you wouldn’t be able to pay it.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Inspirational, God, Religious

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• There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society with a large segment of people in that society who feel that they have no stake in it; who feel that that have nothing to lose. People who have stake in their society, protect that society, but when they don't have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  People, Nothing To Lose, Stakes

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• If you want to be happy, be.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life, Birthday, Happiness

  "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang, p. 352, 2006.

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  Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom

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• If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. And what can this tell you about American culture? Well, look at the drugs we use. Except for pharmaceutical poison, there are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: Caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in.

  Bill Hicks

  Friday, Monday, Stupid

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• People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.

  Robert Ringer

  Spiritual, Truth, Believe

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• Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.

  George Adair

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.

  Diane Ackerman

  Life, Knowing Who You Are, Passengers

  "On extended wings". Book by Diane Ackerman, 1985.

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• No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Death, Stanford University

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Quoted in Esquire, Nov. 1962

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• It's not wrong to be upset. It's not wrong to cry. It's not wrong to want attention. It's not even wrong to scream or throw a fit. What is wrong is to keep it all inside. What is wrong is to blame and punish yourself for simply being human. What is wrong is to never be heard and to be alone in your pain. Share it. Let it out.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Pain, Recovery, Being Alone

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• I am not afraid of death. I just don't want to be there when it happens.

  Woody Allen

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Death: A Comedy in One Act". Book by Woody Allen, 1975.

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• If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

  A. A. Milne

  Love, Friendship, Birthday

  "Winnie-the-Pooh: The House at Pooh Corner". Book by A. A. Milne, 1928.

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• Be as you wish to seem.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Integrity, Hypocrisy

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• If you are complaining about things in your life, you are on the complaining frequency, and you are not in a position to attract what you want.
  Get on to the frequency of good with your thoughts and words. Firstly you will feel good, and secondly you will be on the frequency of receiving more good.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Feel Good, Receiving, Complaining

  Rhonda Byrne (2016). “How The Secret Changed My Life: Real People. Real Stories.”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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