God desires from you the least degree of purity of conscience more than all the works you can perform.
To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it.
His overriding life necessity was not love, it was his profession…He had come to medicine not by coincidence or calculation but by a deep inner desire. Insofar as it is possible to divide people into categories, the surest criterion is the deep-seated desires that orient them to one or another lifelong activity. Every Frenchman is different. But all the actors the world over are similar.
As we gaze into the mirror it holds up for us, we too easily imagine that what we behold is Nature when in fact we see the reflection of our own unexamined longings and desires.
If our mind is pure, our desires get manifested quickly.
Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.
It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
The best kind of wealth is to give up inordinate desires.
Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.
The object of man's desire is not to enjoy once only, and for one instant of time; but to assure for ever, the way of his future desires.
Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
Men have a thousand desires to a bushel of choices.
Music is the career Im lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions.
Misery has only one meaning, that things are not fitting with your desires - and things never fit with your desires, they cannot. Things simply go on following their nature.
First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.
I can't see any point to hanging around a Burger King all day, no matter how much money you make. . . . . I'll tell you why. Your life would depend on the random desires of people who wanted a hamburger. So you can just forget about Burger King.
If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live?
One should cultivate human values for healthy living. this calls for harmony in thought, word and deed. When you cultivate this harmony you will be free from desires and fears.
Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.
We would willingly have others perfect, and yet we amend not our own faults. We would have others severely corrected and will not be corrected ourselves. The large liberty of others displeases us, and yet we will not have our own desires denied us. We will have others kept under by strict laws, but in no sort will ourselves be restrained. And thus it appears how seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.