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“Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.”

“After a few (or many) bad relationships, its so easy to shut down, give up, and stop believing that the right person is out there for us. Our hearts yearn to fall in love, but our minds insist its not possible, and we enter into a tug-of-war with ourselves. Its as if one part of us is screaming, Yes! I deserve a great relationship! while another part insists, Ill never find him or her. When our beliefs contradict our desires, we experience an inner conflict that not only paralyzes us, but can actually prevent us from recognizing the possibilities for love that exist all around us.”

Source: The Soulmate Secret: Manifest the Love of Your Life with the Law of Attraction

“I desire to go through life knowing as little of evil in it as possible. To this end, I sometimes avoid looking too closely into the nature of things, studying them only so far as they seem to be good, and abandoning interest in them as soon as their darker feature begin to appear. The good only deserves a hearty interest.”

Littles Ends Sometimes Seems Desire Evil Interest Knowing Study Deserve Be Good Features Hearty

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“An unlucky rich man is more capable of satisfying his desires and of riding out disaster when it strikes, but a lucky man is better off than him...He is the one who deserves to be described as happy. But until he is dead, you had better refrain from calling him happy, and just call him fortunate.”

Men Desire Rich Calling Lucky Capable Deserve Strikes Disaster Fortunate Satisfying Riding Better Off Refrain Rich Man Unlucky Lucky Man

Author:Solon

“No joy for which thy hungering heart has panted, No hope it cherishes through waiting years, But if thou dost deserve it, shall be granted For with each passionate wish the blessing nears. Tune up the fine, strong instrument of thy being To chord with thy dear hope, and do not tire. When both in key and rhythm are agreeing, Lo! thou shalt kiss the lips of thy desire. The thing thou cravest so waits in the distance, Wrapt in the silences, unseen and dumb: Essential to thy soul and thy existence-- Live worthy of it--call, and it shall come.”

Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

“I read the Phantom comics when I was in Australia shooting 'Dead Calm'' and when one of the crew told me that there were plans for a movie, I went for it. That was in 1987 and I told (producer) Graham Burke I was going to be the Phantom. We had a laugh about that recently because you usually get what you deserve, not what you desire, and that is especially true in Hollywood!”

Desire Laughing Plans Deserve Hollywood Calm Producers Shooting Australia Crew Phantoms What You Deserve

Author:Billy Zane

“You guys (Boko Haram) are trying so hard to convince everybody that you're such badasses. But all you've done with this kidnapping is highlight who the real badasses are, the kids you kidnapped. Compared to a teenager who knows that her desire for an education could get her dragged into a snake infested jungle to be sold as a bribe to some demented, stick-chewing cartoon villain but still gets up and goes to class everyday, fully aware of that danger - compared to their courage - I'd say Boko Haram is a bunch of little girls. But, you know what? You don't deserve that compliment.”

“The passion for praise, which is so very vehement in the fair sex, produces excellent effects in women of sense, who desire to be admired for that which only deserves admiration.”

Desire Passion Sex Effects Produce Deserve Fairs Praise Excellent Admiration Vehement

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine; if thy labor got it, let thy wisdom keep it; if oppression found it, let repentance restore it; if thy parent left it, let thy virtues deserve it; so shall thy honor be safer, better and cheaper.”

Ifs Firsts Desire Found Left Parent Wealth Virtue Honor Deserve Labor Oppression Repentance Cheaper

Author:Francis Quarles

“Those who, from the desire of our perfection, have the keenest eye far our faults generally compensate for it by taking a higher view of our merits than we deserve.”

Eye Desire Views Higher Deserve Perfection Faults Appreciation Merit

Author:John Frederick Boyes

“There is something so sad about going online and seeing almost everyone shouting ‘Notice me, notice me!’ Which is such a human desire—to be acknowledged. But me responding to that with some sort of ‘You’re noticed, you’re seen’ only perpetuates the loneliness. Because I’m not seeing you; I’m not noticing you. And whoever you are, you so deserve to be noticed and valued. I feel lucky to have not grown up with the Internet because it forced me to get out, struggle and be so messy.”

Feels Humans Desire Struggle Seeing Loneliness Internet Lucky Deserve Online Messy Responding Shouting Noticing So Sad Notice Me Noticing You

Author:Taylor Schilling

“When we enlarge upon the affection our friends have for us, this is very often not so much out of a sense of gratitude as from a desire to persuade people of our own great worth, that can deserve so much kindness.”

People Desire Friendship Kindness Friends Gratitude Deserve Affection Vanity

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Enriching others is the only way to get rich, if that is what we desire. The more we serve, the more we deserve, getting what we give, no more and no less.”

Ifs Way Giving Desire Rich Deserve Prosperity Get Rich Enriching

Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“Who doth desire that chaste his wife should be, first be he true, for truth doth truth deserve.”

Should Firsts Desire Wife Deserve Chastity Chaste

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney (Illustrated)

“It is a shame for a man to desire honor because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his own virtue.”

Men Desire Virtue Honor Deserve Shame Noble Ancestry

Author:Saint John Chrysostom

“Forgetfulness is not to be purchased with a wish; and I cannot bestow my esteem on all who desire it, unless they deserve it too.”

Desire Wish Deserve Esteem Forgetfulness

Book:The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall