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1 " if... says: 'Do not be greedy, be generous', you may inwardly interpret this in such a manner that you will develop a greed for generosity "
― Idries Shah , Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
2 " If you want money more than anything,you will be bought and sold.If you have a greed for food,you will become a loaf of bread.This is a subtle truth.Whatever you love, you are. "
― Rumi , A Year with Rumi: Daily Readings
3 " It seems to me that evil is a kind of ultimate greed, a greed that is so all-encompassing that it can't ever see anything lovely, rare, or precious without wanting to possess it. A greed so total that if it can't possess these things, it will destroy them rather than chance that someone else might have them. And a greed so intense that even having these things never causes it to lessen one iota -- the lovely, the rare and the precious never affect it except to make it want them. "
― Mercedes Lackey , Arrow's Fall (Heralds of Valdemar, #3)
4 " The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality. "
