Always having what we want may not be the best good…

Needs cause motivation. Deep-rooted desires for esteem, affection, belonging, achievement, self-actualization, power, and control motivate us to push for what we want and need…

— Lorii Myers

A lot of times, my work is looked at very much on the surface. It's very easy to just want to put something in…

— Jeff Koons

“The best way to achieve a wonderful life is to have wonderful desires.”

— Steven Redhead

“My third maxim was to endeavour always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and change my desires rather than the order of the world,…

— René Descartes

Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

“The Heart Desires to Be Free”

— Cynthia Belmer

“Desires and wishes don’t lead to success. Plans and efforts do. Create a vision, chalk out an action plan, put in your best efforts…

— Roopleen

“We could not be fulfilled if we weren't inauthentic some of the time—inauthentic, that is, in relation to such things as our passing desires…

— Alain de Botton

My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived.

— Mason Cooley

The best kind of wealth is to give up inordinate desires.

— Rabindranath Tagore

“I never get writer's block. My secret...I have purring cats in surround sound while I write...best white noise on the planet." R.Rose when asked…

— R. Rose

“The desires of the flesh leads to sin.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

It is a happy circumstance that when nature gives us true burning desires, she also gives us the means to satisfy them. Those who…

— Ed Seykota

“You can become even a co-creator of this universe... an assurance coming from the Ancient Wisdom; provided you bear an appropriate WILL...”

— Dinesh Kumar

“I want to have a lasting experience of God', I told him. 'Sometimes I feel like I understand the divinity of this world, but…

— Elizabeth Gilbert