Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification.

Sincere desire and worthiness invite the spirit of revelation into our lives.

I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

Her desire for fame is like her hair. It keeps getting bigger. [on Diana Ross

Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.

Inherent in every intention and desire are the mechanics for its fulfillment.

The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.

The thing that keeps me most awake is the desire and curiosity to learn more.

I feel like there's a desire for a sense of permanence that is growing in me.

More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

Be an earnest student of yourself. Study your leading desires and tendencies.

There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire

Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature

In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.

For me, the burning desire has always been about building what my family had.

I get what I desire, it's my empire And yes I call the shots, I am the umpire

Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.

Aren't we living in a world where heedless men only desire decapitated women?

When you feel the desire for power, you should stay in solitude for some time

The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.

I have the desire to work as an actress, but I have no ambition to be a star.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

I'm completely against [feminism]. I have no desire to give up my privileges.

Freedom in Christ allows you to control the desires that once controlled you.

I have found that great ideas come when you have a great desire to have them.

We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.

All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better.

We are disgusted by the things that we desire, and we desire what disgusts us.

There's a desire in me to express something - to match what I hear in my head.

True love is a lack of desire to check one's smartphone in another's presence.

There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.

It is a happy moment when our desire crosses with the will of Heavenly Father.

No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things.

Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love

Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.

Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.

Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

Sometimes you have to do something you dislike to create something you desire.

Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.

Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

Analysis does not take into account the creative products of neurotic desires.

To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake

Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.

Desire suppressed finds its way into other more surreal settings, into dreams.

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