The most basic human desire is to feel like you belong. Fitting in is important.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.

Needs can be fulfilled, desires never. Needs are natural, desires are perverted.

There are those who have a desire to love, but do not have the capacity to love.

My unlimited desire to create stuff surpasses the advancement in hardware power.

You need to know it's your actions that will make you a good person, not desire.

The abundance you desire to experience must first be an experience in your mind.

The desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom.

Use your unconscious mind to read other people's intents, emotions, and desires.

It's certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

What if desire wasn't an urge to be tamed, but a beacon of truth to be followed?

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

Holiness gives us new desires and brings old desires into line with one another.

any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war.

... it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.

Pleasure once tasted satisfies less than the desire experienced for its torments.

In my life as a wife and mother, I'm always conscious of my desire to be present.

Desire is the mother of motivation because that is where your motivation is born.

They say 'He cannot be found'. Something that cannot be 'found' is what I desire.

Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.

What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?

Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.

What your heart desires is not too good to be true. It is good enough to be true.

In antiquity, a woman might be an object of worship or desire, but never of love.

My endeavors Have ever come too short of my desires. Yet filed with my abilities.

To desire with one’s very soul every second of every day to accomplish one’s aim.

Those who want nothing are apt to forget how many there are who want every thing.

A "Bay Area Bisexual" told me I didn't quite coincide with either of her desires.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires.

I made you, dear, and all I make is perfect. Please come close, for I desire you.

Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.

I've learned... that we should be glad God doesn't give us everything we ask for.

Desire is the factor that determines what your definite purpose in life shall be.

Tuberculosis, starvation, fatigue, and there are many who have no desire to live.

One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides.

Preceding accomplishment must be desire. Thy desires must be strong and definite.

Random acts of kindness and the desire to do the best job possible lead to trust.

The living all assemble! What's the cue?-- Do what the clumsy partner wants to do!

A thing may be morally neutral and yet the desire for that thing may be dangerous.

The strong desire for success is the best indication that you can achieve success.

We are told that talent creates opportunity, yet it is desire that creates talent.

I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.

As is your sort of mind, So is your sort of search: You will find what you desire.

Smiling half-reluctance seems to promise more than the frankest gesture of desire.

Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction

Lost are we, and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire.

I was not pleased that Hamas has refused to announce its desire to destroy Israel.

If we feel inwardly strong, we will have no need or desire to speak ill of others.

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