When you think you have no future, it's strange how pure…

When tragedy strikes, we all become pure humans again as at birth. Color, race, sex, and religion become insignificant. True love makes us pure…

— Full Eclipse

The more desires you have, the more misery you will create for yourself. Misery is a consequence of desiring - and you go on…

— Anonymous

So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with…

— Jonathan Swift

I don't have the desires of a spoiled child. I never did.

— Princess Stephanie of Monaco

The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.

— Slavoj Žižek

“People make themselves unhappy by desiring and praising only one thing, by becoming too one-sided in trying to find contentment. If we were just…

— Adalbert Stifter

Christ desires nothing more of us than that we speak of him.

— Martin Luther

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

“The desires of the flesh leads to sin.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Mason Cooley

“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

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

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

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

— Steven Redhead

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