Desire is the root of selfishness; clear your heart of desire and be selfless. Selflessness is the key to inner peace. — Christofer Drew Copy Share Image
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety. — Moliere Copy Share Image
A man's not doing much until the cause he works for possesses all there is of him. Desire, when harnessed, is power. — John Wanamaker Copy Share Image
Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Fishing, by its very nature, nourishes the imagination, feeding it with a potent fuel of hope and desire. — Tony Bishop Copy Share Image
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll only be a highpay slave. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
“Lust? I have no desire to incite lust in anyone." Veliss turned to her with a quizzical expression, her smile suddenly genuine.… — Anthony Ryan Copy Share Image
The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and an over-indulgence… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God knows the dreams and desires in your heart; in fact, He gave them to you. He will order your steps and… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without "taste," at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cost. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Getting lost was not a matter of geography so much as identity, a passionate desire, even an urgent need, to become no… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“To be the object of desire is to be defined in the passive case. To exist in the passive case is to… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
People are motivated by the desires for privilege, for power, for profit. Those are not shocking revelations. Anyone who's had any experience… — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
We think in our society today that the way people change is that they have to have a deep desire to change… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
“Your body is made of two things: your will to do, your ego, and the physical form you have received from the… — Osho Copy Share Image
Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting chose me.… — Ving Rhames Copy Share Image
How do we allow God into our minds, bodies, relationships, and life? We stop squeezing the divine out through our preconceived notions… — David Simon Copy Share Image
I pledged myself to smoke but one cigar a day. I kept the cigar waiting until bedtime, then I had a luxurious… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“He captured one of her legs, stilling her for a moment so he could fit his own between hers. Sliding upward, he… — Tracy Anne Warren Copy Share Image
I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All… — A. Lee Martinez Copy Share Image
This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. Our most persistent and spectacular efforts are concerned not with the preservation of… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
We wanna believe that we're different than the average guy that's working 9-to-5, that our thoughts are different than his. Our inspirations… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
