We trifle when we assign limit...

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

~Christian Nevell Bovee~

There are two tragedies in lif...

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.

~George Bernard Shaw~

There are confessable agonies,...

There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and the fear of death the poets have eloquently spoken. They command the world's sympathy. But there are also discreditable anguishes, no less excruciating than the others, but of which the sufferer dare not, cannot speak. The anguish of thwarted desire, for example.

~Aldous Huxley~

The key that unlocks energy is...

The key that unlocks energy is ''Desire.'' It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited.

~Earl Nightingale~

The desire of the man is for t...

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

~Germaine De Stael~

Our desires always increase wi...

Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.

~Samuel Johnson~

Our desires always increase wi...

Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.

~Samuel Johnson~

One essential to success is th...

One essential to success is that your desire be an all-obsessing one, your thoughts and aim be coordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup.

~Claude M. Bristol~

O lyric Love, half angel and h...

O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire.

~Robert Browning~

Manifest plainness, embrace si...

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

~Lao-Tzu~

He who desires naught will alw...

He who desires naught will always be free.

~E. R. Lefebvre Laboulaye~

It is easier to suppress the f...

It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.

~Benjamin Franklin~

In all ranks of life the human...

In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.

~Harriet Beecher Stowe~

Ignore what a man desires and ...

Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power

~Walter Lippmann~

I desire not to desire, for my...

I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for me what thou knowest to be best and do not put my perdition in what my autonomy and free choice prefer.

~Bayazid Al-Bistami~

Ah Love! could you and I with ...

Ah Love! could you and I with him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire Would we not shatter it to bits - and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire?

~Omar Khayyam~