Quotes about Desire

Happy the man who dies before he prays for death.

I have always claimed America didn't want a drink as bad as they wanted the right to take a drink if they did happen to want one.

for you will always gravitate toward that which you, secretly, most love.

The soul attracts that which it secretly harbours; that which it loves, and also that which it fears;

When a man makes his thoughts pure, he no longer desires impure food.

If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

Not what he wishes and prays for does a man get, but what he justly earns.

Men do not attract what they want, but what they are.

This, then, is the secret of health, -a pure heart and a well-ordered mind ; this is the secret of success, -an unfaltering faith, and a wisely-directed purpose; and to rein in, with unfaltering will, the dark steed of desire, this is the secret of power.

To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to, achieve.

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration:

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