Quotes on Want

If you want to save capitalism there is only one type of argument that you should adopt, the only one that has ever won in any moral issue: the argument from self-esteem. Check your premises, convince yourself of the rightness of your cause, then fight for capitalism with full, moral certainty.

Every moment is a fresh new beginning... a wonderful inauguration of the great cosmic journey through the Universe. We can do whatever we want. We can change reality at any moment.

If you're on a freeway and want to know if you're being followed, what you do is enormously vary your speed. You accelerate to 100 and slow down to 30 and then accelerate again. In a city, you make a lot of turns against the stream of traffic. You go around a roundabout twice.

If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.

No rules. Don't be afraid to do whatever you want. Cooking doesn't have to have rules. I don't like it that way.

Fascination is one step beyond interest. Interested people want to know if it works. Fascinated people want to learn how it works.

If you want to study Zen, you should forget all your previous ideas and just practice zazen and see what kind of experience you have in your practice. That is naturalness.

This is what I want everyone to experience at the end of my concert... _x000D_ everyone has this sense of rejoicing. _x000D_ I don't want them to be blown away by what I do, _x000D_ I want them to have this sense of real, real joy _x000D_ from the depths of their being. _x000D_ Because I think when you take them to that place, _x000D_ then you open up a place where grace can come in.

I want to say one word to you and this word is “Joy”. Wherever there are consecrated people, seminarians, men and women religious, young people, there is joy, there is always joy!

Not everyone coming to you with a problem wants a solution. They are attached to the attention it brings them.

The moment when someone attaches you to a philosophy or a movement, then they assign all the baggage and all the rest of the philosophy that goes with it to you. And when you want to have a conversation, they will assert that they already know everything important there is to know about you because of that association. And that's not the way to have a conversation.

Jesus suffered deeply because He loves us deeply! He wants us to repent and be converted so that He can fully heal us.

If you want to be successful, you have to jump, there's no way around it. When you jump, I can assure you that your parachute will not open right away. But if you do not jump, your parachute will never open. If you're safe, you'll never soar!

Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince the person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise.

You don't want no pie in the sky when you die, You want something here on the ground while you're still around.

Take advantage of each small success. In this way you close the gap between what you want from life and what it is giving you.

Everyone wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change himself.

If we want to find happiness, let's stop thinking about gratitude or ingratitude and give for the inner joy of giving.

Now, if you want to get rich, you have only to produce a product or service that will give people greater use value than the price you charge for it. How rich you get will be determined by the number of people to whom you can sell the product or service.

What I learned: Shun nonbelievers. Ignore critics. Do your best for people who want to dance with you.

I am satisfied that when the Almighty wants me to do or not do any particular thing, He finds a way of letting me know it