What you desire and what you believe can contradict each other, as when you want health but believe in your illness

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• Health so outweighs every other blessing that a healthy beggar is happier than a sick king ASArthur Schopenhauerc. 1851
• One should be heedless in the pursuit of desires while ensuring those desires do not become the direct target of one's efforts. JWJohn Warner30 Aug 2026
• The desire to feel right overpowers the desire to be right, because the ego pushes toward feeling right at the expense of being right. SPShane Parrish3 Oct 2023
• Mental health rests on some tension between what one is and what one should become VFViktor Franklc. 1962–1992
• People believe in an imagined order because it enables them to cooperate, not because it is objectively true YHYuval Noah Hararic. 2011–2015

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