Desire
The discipline of desire is the background of character.
I did not want to think so much about her. I wanted to take her as an unexpected, delightful gift, that had come and would go again — nothing more. I meant not to give room to the thought that it could ever be more. I knew too well that all love has the desire for eternity and that therein lies its eternal torment. Nothing lasts. Nothing.
Let your desires be ruled by reason.
If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.
Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
We should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to every human being for God's sake.
There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end.
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.
My desire was not to pass any island without taking possession, so that, one having been taken, the same may be said of all.
Young people are threatened by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward Heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.
Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
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