Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.
We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
Desire is proof of the availability.
There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.
Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.
Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.
Art includes everything which stimulates the desire to live; science includes everything which sharpens the desire to know. Art, even the most disinterested, the most disembodied, is the auxiliary of life.
Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.
Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker, and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened, then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion and a genuine desire to serve others.
Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.
We all want what's been suddenly disallowed.
One essential to success is that your desire be an all-obsessing one, your thoughts and aim be coordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup.
We must recognize that all beings want the same thing we want. This is the way to achieve a true understanding, unfettered by artificial consideration.
Desire is like the shadow caused by the morning sun; it gets longer when you run to catch it.
From the desert I come to thee, On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire.
To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.
Desire is the thing you want in incipiency.
Every artist would like to live in the central organ of creation... Not all are destined to get there... but our beating hearts drive us deep down, right into the pit of creation.
Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire.
We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.
Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts.
First the stalk — then the roots. First the need — then the means to satisfy that need . First the nucleus — then the elements needed for its growth. The seed is a primary cause. The need, the nucleus, both are primary causes. Conditions — they are secondary. Given enough life in the nucleus, it will draw to itself the necessary means for growth regardless of conditions.
Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.
Wealth and rank are what men desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed. Poverty and obscurity are what men detest; but unless prosperity be brought about in the right way, they are not to be abandoned.
The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow.
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