Fact Quote by Paulo Coelho

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

— Paulo Coelho

If you go around promising what you do not yet have, you will lose the will to achieve it.

— Paulo Coelho

With your desire defined, quietly go within and shut the door behind you. Lose yourself in your desire; feel yourself to be one with…

— Neville Goddard

“One day your drive to make a name for yourself will begin to drift away. It won't be that important anymore. But when you're…

— Abbi Glines

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Boredom is the inner conflict we suffer when we lose desire, when we lack a lacking.

— Robert McKee

“It’s true I’ve got a cold streak. I recognize that. But if they—my father and mother—had loved me a little more, I would have…

— Haruki Murakami

The problem is sometimes so great that people do, literally, lose their desire to live. It happens, too, in relationships, when your partner leaves…

— Dr BK Satyanarayan

“Fear is the will's little baby. It arises with the possibility you will lose what you desire.”

— Shai Tubali

So if loss of what gives happiness causes you distress when it fades, you can now understand that such happiness is worthless. It is…

— Zhuangzi

The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your…

— Lyn Yutang

The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the…

— Frederic William Maitland