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Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.

A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate.

Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.

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.

Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire provide plenty of stories to drive the point home.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Always desire to learn something useful.

From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.

An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

Desire is the very essence of man.

Desire is the essence of a man.

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

The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity.

Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.

The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.

You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God.