What matters most with any regimen, whether it's to lose weight or stop drinking or smoking, is your willingness to seek help and your desire to say 'no more.
If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
Fathers like to have children good-natured, well-behaved, and comfortable, but how to put them in that desirable condition is out of their philosophy.
You are undoubtedly acquainted with my Reputation, and as for my Penmanship it must speak for itself; this is to desire your Approbation to keep a public school.
Walden is the report of a man torn by two powerful and opposing drives – the desire to enjoy the world and the urge to set the world straight.
I love your lips when they're wet with wine and red with wicked desire
I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
People just don't realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them.
Do not yearn to be popular; be exquisite. Do not desire to be famous; be loved. Do not take pride in being expected; be palpable, unmistakable.
I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity.
I think in our desire to create a better America,we have to have civilized debate in this country and not just yelling.
By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
China has no desire to replace Western imperialism in Asia with an Oriental imperialism or isolationism of its own or anyone else.
A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.
All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.
If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.
The power of thought is not a compelling force. It is a building force, and it is only when used in the latter sense that desirable results can be produced.
Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.
