I scorched the earth with my talent and I let my light shine. — André Leon Talley

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Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat.

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To bear the cross means that you refrain from doing what you have the power to do. You are qualified to fulfill your desire, yet you refrain from doing so. A person like this is the strongest person. The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has the power to do.

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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

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Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you’re willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it. — Lou Holtz

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May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears. – Nelson Mandela

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Eroticism is first and foremost a thirst for otherness. And the supernatural is the supreme otherness. This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace, finally what always evades us, what is beyond, but what is always there – the unspoken, the spirit, the soul.

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Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire. ― Dan Brown

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It is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change. — Queen Elizabeth II

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Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

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