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“All human beings have an innate desire to overcome suffering, to find happiness. Training the mind to think differently, through meditation, is one important way to avoid suffering and be happy.”

Thinking Way Mind Humans Important Desire Suffering Human Beings Meditation Training Overcoming Innate Finding Happiness Training The Mind

Author:Dalai Lama

“I wish to explore the beauty of everyday environments; in troubled times it is especially important to be aware of beauty and wonder.”

Important Desire Wish Wonder Environment Everyday Troubled Times

Author:Elizabeth Barton

“Don't sow your desires in someone else's garden; just cultivate your own as best you can; don't long to be other than what you are, but desire to be thoroughly what you are. Direct your thoughts to being very good at that and to bearing the crosses, little or great, that you will find there. Believe me, this is the most important and least understood point to the spiritual life. We all love according to what is our taste; few people like what is according to their duty or to God's liking. What is the use of building castles in Spain when we have to live in France?”

“The desire to maximize the number of winning trades (or minimize the number of losing trades) works against the trader. The success rate of trades is the least important performance statistic and may even be inversely related to performance.”

May Important Success Desire Winning Numbers Losing Performances Trade Rate Related Trading Key To Success Recipe For Success Traders Maximizing Minimizing

Author:William Eckhardt

“Obviously, raw talent is important, but the difference-maker between first and the rest of the pack is usually desire.”

Firsts Important Desire Differences Talent Makers Packs Raw Talent Difference Makers

Book:Born to Win: Find Your Success Code

Source: Born to Win: Find Your Success Code

“Just as soon as any conviction of important truth becomes central and vital, there comes the desire to utter it - a desire which is immediate and irresistible. Sacrifice is gladness, service is joy, when such an idea becomes a commanding power.”

Important Ideas Truth Joy Desire Sacrifice Truth Is Conviction Irresistible Gladness

Author:Richard Salter Storrs

“Rather than protecting music as a sublimely meaningless activity that has managed to escape social signification, I insist on treating it as a medium that participates in social formation by influencing the ways we perceive our feelings, our bodies, our desires, our very subjectivities - even if it does so surreptitiously, without most of us knowning how. It is too important a cultural force to be shrouded by mystified notions of Romantic transcendence.”

Ifs Way Doe Important Feelings Body Desire Force Social Influence Activity Notion Mediums Perceive Meaningless Transcendence Formation Subjectivity

Author:Susan McClary

“I think the spirit of America, one American wanting to make another American's life better, or internationally our desire to see countries do better, or people in countries do better, coming from this concept of volunteerism is a very valid and important part of our internal being.”

People Thinking Important Country America Spirit Desire Concepts Internals Volunteerism

Author:George H. W. Bush

“The desires of adults are not more important than the needs of children.”

Needs Children Important Desire Adults

Author:Tim Walberg

“Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe... Our love of art is often quite temporary, dependent upon our moods, and our love of art is subservient to our demand for a positive self image. How we look at art should account for those imperfections and work around them. Keep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader. Maybe we think we are supposed to like tough books, but are we? Who says? Many writers (and art museums) produce for quite a small subsample of the... public.”

“When you meet the one. It just clicks. Clicking is important in a relationship. When you click, you share the same passion and worldviews, ambitions and dreams. You are willing to share your inner thoughts, fears, desires and secrets. When you click, your partner makes you comfortable in your skin, he or she knows what you need even you're quiet, knows when to give advice and when to just listen. When you click, you allow your partner to steadily be what they desire to be, while you be a steady presence”

Knows Needs Giving Important Dream Desire Passion Friendship Secret Share Advice Willing Quiet Ambition Comfortable Skins Partners Steady Worldview Clicks Just Listen Ambitions And Dreams

Author:Rita Zahara

“I desire no other epitaph - no hurry about it, I may say - than the statement that I taught medical students in the wards, as I regard this as by far the most useful and important work I have been called upon to do.”

May Has Beens Important Desire Education Students Taught Regard Medical Statements Epitaph Important Work

Book:Aequanimitas

Source: Aequanimitas

“It's so important to consider this question: What do I desire?”

Important Desire

Author:Alan Watts

“It is important to distinguish between sense-pleasure and sense-desire. There is nothing wrong with sense-pleasure. Pleasure and pain are part of our human experience. Sense-desire, on the other hand, is the grasping at pleasure or the avoidance of pain. This is what creates suffering-grasping and avoidance.”

Humans Important Hands Pain Desire Suffering Pleasure Human Experience Avoidance Grasping Pain And Pleasure

Author:Dipa Ma