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Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
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Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
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Thou blind man’s mark; thou fool’s self-chosen snare, Fond fancy’s scum, and dregs of scatter’d thoughts; Band of all evils; cradle of causeless care; Thou web of ill, whose end is never wrought; Desire! Desire! I have too, dearly bought With price of mangled mind thy worthless ware, Too long, too long, asleep thou hast me brought, Who shouldst my mind to higher things prepare.
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Through some strange and powerful principle of mental chemistry which she has never divulged, nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire, that something which recognizes no such word as impossible, and accepts no such reality as failure.
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To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.
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To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive.
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To refuse praise reveals a desire to be praised twice over.
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Troubles advance upon us rapidly; our desires travel in the opposite direction.
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Unbridled gratification produces unbridled desire.
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Understand clearly that when a great need appears a great use appears also; when there is small need there is small use; it is obvious, then, that full use is made of all things at all times according to the necessity thereof.
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Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying; but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself.
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Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and manifest that intense, eager, longing, craving, insistent, demanding, ravenous Desire which is akin to the persistent, insistent, ardent, overwhelming desire of the drowning man for a breath of air; of the shipwrecked or desert-lost man for a drink of water; of the famished man for bread and meat.
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Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.
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We accomplish things by directing our desires, not by ignoring them.
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We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us. Lat., Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata.
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We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
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We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.
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We grow like flowers, and bear desire, The odor of the human flowers.
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We never desire ardently what we desire rationally.
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