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“It's not who jumps the highest - it's who wants it the most”

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Buck Williams, born on March 8, 1960, is a renowned basketball player known for his exceptional defensive skills and rebounding ability on the NBA court. more

“Desire animates the world. It is present in the baby crying for milk, the girl struggling to solve a math problem, the woman running to meet her lover and later deciding to have children, and the old woman, hunched over her walker, moving down the hall of the nursing home at a glacial pace to pick up her mail. Banish desire from the world, and you get a world of frozen beings who have no reason to live and no reason to die.”

Source: On Desire: Why We Want what We Want

“The central fire is desire, and all the powers of our being are given us to see, to fight for, and to win the object of our desire. Quench that fire and man turns to ashes.”

Men Desire Turns Fighting Winning Given Fire Objects Ashes Quench

Author:Basil W. Maturin

“When you believe, or are led to believe, you are unable to act upon the greatest desires of the soul, the result is mental and spiritual enslavement.”

Believe Soul Spiritual Desire Results Enslavement

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“There's a wall between you and what you want and you got to leap it.”

Want Desire Wall What You Want Leap

Author:Bob Dylan

“Thoughts are to the Desires as Scouts and Spies, to range abroad, and find the way to the things Desired.”

Way Desire Range Spy

Book:Leviathan: Or, The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill

Source: Leviathan: Or, The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill

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