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Cathy, don't look so defeated. She was only trying to put us downagain.Maybe nothing did work out right for her, but that doesn't mean we aredoomed. Let's go forth tomorrow with no great expectations of findingperfection. Then, expecting only a small share of happiness, we won'tbe disappointed."If a little hill of happiness would satisfy Chris, good for him. Butafter all these years of striving, hoping, dreaming, longing-I wanted amountain high! A hill wasn't enough. From this day forward, I vowedto myself, I was in control of my life. Not fate, notGod, not even Chris was ever again going to tell me what to do, ordominate me in any way. From this day forward, I was my own person, totake what I would, when I would, and I would answer only to myself. I'dbeen kept prisoner, held captive by greed. I'd been betrayed,deceived, tied to, used, poisoned ... but all that was over now.

God__ grace is our greatest need.

In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great.

Happiness is there where wants and needs are small, but the desire to give is big.

If you don't need what you really want, you can barely want what you really need.

You can't get what you want, if the intentions are solely directed for self-benefits.

Over-thinking, a devouring monster,entice, only the inky reflections;there's a pleasure you come by,from this anomalous encounter;kills your desire, for human affection.

We hunger in earnest for that which we cannot consume.

It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.

Each day brings a fresh opportunity for you to set the standard of how dedicated and committed you are to your needs, wants, goals, and relationships.

What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.

Each of us has empty spaces in our heart that go through life being filled temporarily, by the various people we meet along the way. The trick is to find what needs to remain permanently filled in our soul and what needs to be filled occasionally through encounters.

What is needful is necessary.

We add caveats to prayers like seasoning to bad sauce. We hope for something else or something more, but we forget. Sometimes life isn__ the pleasure of the taste, rather the nutrition we get from it.

Experience has taught us that material wants know no natural bounds, that they will expand without end unless we consciously restrain them. Capitalism rests precisely on this endless expansion of wants. That is why, for all its success, it remains so unloved. It has given us wealth beyond measure, but has taken away the chief benefit of wealth: the consciousness of having enough.

You can't be tempted, unless you want what is tempting you.

2.27 THE ULTIMATEWith compassion and renunciation walking,With wants and desires ever shedding,With love within one__ heart flowing,Peace and Divinity shall never be wanting.[158] - 2

Christmas embodies everything that I need. However, everything that I need is often made up of a lot of stuff I don__ want.