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A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.

—Lionel Shriver in Checker and the Derailleurs

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Don't settle. Know what you want and reach for it. And if you don't know what you want, be patient. The answers will come to you in time, and you may find that your heart's desire has been right under your nose all the while.

—Julia Quinn in With Love

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I think I can live without you, but it won't be any kind of life.

—Rainbow Rowell in Landline

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Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I was pretty sure that's how you know you're falling for someone—when you want the good and bad, when you want everything, regardless of how horrible, how dark. You want it all, because at the end of the day, it's still them.

—Rachel Van Dyken

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That's how it is when a person develops an attraction toward someone. He's nowhere, then suddenly he's everywhere, whether you want him to be or not.

—Colleen Hoover in Ugly Love

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Without meaning to belittle the wonders of science, I do not think they can absolve mankind of suffering, desire, madness, and death.

—Lewis H. Lapham

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

—Richard Bach

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I missed everything about my old life. I just wanted it back.

—Sarah Dessen in What Happened to Goodbye

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All sins are attempts to fill voids.

—Simone Weil

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When we pray to God we must be seeking nothing — nothing.

—Francis of Assisi

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In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principles contain it or stand against it.

—Jane Smiley

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Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

—Walter Scott

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

—Robert Frost

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If someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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