The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.
Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want, and do.
He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.
Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live
Desire is everything, not talent. It's the degree of one's desire that will dictate the extent of one's success, in any endeavour.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.
It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
There is a supply for every demand.
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