From the unknown, profound desires enter in upon us,
and...the fulfilling of those desires is the fulfilling of creation.
-D. H. Lawrence

Desire is the very essence of man.
-Baruch Spinoza

Desire is originally desire for being.
-Jean-Paul Sartre

Desire is all that produces longing in one.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan

You are what your deep driving desire is.
-Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

Man's Desires are limited by his Perceptions;
none can desire what he has not perceived.
-William Blake

Every man's desire is according to his evolution;
that which he is ready for, is the desirable thing for him.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan

Our heart's desire
and who, what, and where we are
are not separate.
-Jerry Katz

The secret of life is to desire to attain something;
the absence of this makes life useless.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan

We sow the seeds with our passions;
those that touch ground will grow.
No feelings, no seeds, an empty life.
-Huang Jen

Without desire,
nothing happens.
-John Randolph Price

Desire fuels the unfolding of our lives.
-Jerry Katz

Wherever you desires are, there you will go.
Your desires determine your actions.
-Tulsi Sahib

Hope comes from the desire of attaining something.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan

Desires are the pulses of the soul;
as physicians judge by the appetite,
so may you by desires.
-Thomas Manton

There is no desire that anyone holds for any other reason
than that they believe they will feel better in the achievement of it.
Whether it is a material object, a physical state of being,
a relationship, a condition or a circumstance -
at the heart of every desire is the desire to feel good.
-Esther Hicks, "Abraham"

Every intense desire is perhaps a desire
to be different from what we are.
-Eric Hoffer

There is no natural desire
which is unnatural.
-Benjamin Whichcote

Plant the seed of desire in your mind
and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself
everything needed for its fulfillment.
-Robert Collier

Desire is the starting point of all achievement,
not a hope, not a wish,
but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
-Napoleon Hill

Have the courage of your desire.
-George Gissing

You can have everything you want, if you go after it.
But you have to want it.
The desire for success must be strong within you
that it is the very breath of your life -
your first thought when you awaken in the morning,
your last thought when you go to bed at night.
-Charles E Popplestone

You can have anything your want
if you want it desperately enough.
You must want it with an inner exuberance
that erupts through the skin
and joins the energy that created the world.
-Sheila Graham

Your desires and your beliefs
must be a vibrational match
for you to receive what you desire.
-Esther Hicks, "Abraham"

When two agree on their desire,
One sparke will set them both on fire.
-Francis Quarles

It belongs to the imperfection of everything human
that man can only attain his desire
by passing through its opposite.
-Soren Kierkegaard

He who thinks against his own desire
is his own enemy.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan

The one who accepts a suggestion
which goes against himself and his own wishes
is poisoning himself and working against his own wishes.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan

Those who restrain desire do so
because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
-William Blake

When the desire is too much to bear,
we often bury it beneath frenzied thoughts and activities
or escape it by dulling our immediate consciousness of living.
It is possible to run away from desire for years, even decades at a time
but we cannot eradicate it entirely.
It keeps touching us in little glimpses and hints
in our dreams, our hopes, our unguarded moments.
-Gerald G. May

There cannot be a desire to which there is not answer;
the answer to the desire is in knowing the desire fully.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds,
they would frequently discover that they did not really desire
the things they failed to obtain.
-Andre Maurois

The non-existent is whatever
we have not yet sufficiently desired.
-Nikos Kazantzakis

A tough will counts.
So does desire.
So does a rich soft wanting.
Without rich wanting nothing arrives.
-Carl Sandburg

When your desires are strong enough
you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
-Napoleon Hill

Nothing is difficult
that is wholly desired.
-A Course in Miracles

If we go down into ourselves,
we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
-Simone Weil

In our own bliss
the desire, desirer and process of desiring are united -
they are one.
Desire is fulfilled at its source.
-Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The desire accomplished
is sweet to the soul.
-The Bible

From desire I plunge into its fulfillment,
where I long once more for desire.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There are some desires
that are not desirable.
-Gilbert K. Chesterton

The delight that consumes the desire,
The desire that outruns the delight.
-Algernon C. Swinburne

Desires are insatiable.
They keep growing as we try to satisfy them
just as the fire becomes more inflamed when oil is poured into it.
-Manu Smriti

It is much easier to suppress a first desire
than to satisfy those that follow.
-François de La Rochefoucauld

Will, truly speaking, is different from desire.
Desire is an expression of the ego; it is selfish.
It is a manifestation of the vital nature.
-Haridas Chaudhuri

Desire is an impurity of the Will
involved in the vital and emotional parts of our being.
-Aurobindo Ghose

The root of desire is the vital craving
to seize upon what we feel we have not.
-Aurobindo Ghose

The cause of desire
is identification with mind and the physical body.
-Eckhart Tolle

Desires are like the horizon,
You can see something in the distance and you wish to attain it,
but however far you walk you can never reach the horizon.
-Guy Claxton

A true desire stays,
and as time goes on it increases in force instead of diminishing.
It is steady, and without excitement.
-Emmet Fox

Desire is attraction to the outer nature,
whereas love is attraction to the inner.
-G. A. Gaskell

All of our desires for the fruits of life
are caused by a feeling of emptiness.
Once we are genuinely full,
what other fruits could we desire?
-Abhinavagupta

Ultimately, one loves one's desires
and not that which is desired.
-Friedrich Wilhelm von Nietzsche

Man is greater
than all the objects of his desire.
-Rabindranath Tagore

Naked,
I seek the camp of those who desire nothing.
-Horace

The very desire to get rid of desire
is still desire, is it not?
-Jiddu Krishnamurti

The desire not to be anything
is the desire not to be.
-Ayn Rand

Desire is half of life,
indifference is half of death.
-Kahlil Gibran

I am dead because I lack desire;
I lack desire, because I think I possess;
I think I possess, because I don't try to give;
When you try to give, you see that you have nothing;
Seeing you have nothing, you try to give of yourself;
Trying to give of yourself, you see that you are nothing;
Seeing that you are nothing, you desire to become;
In desiring to become, you begin to live.
-Rene Daumal

Desires are central to the soul's unfolding
and should not be dismissed
before giving them careful attention.
-Thomas Moore

If in any respect you find them [desires] beneath you,
the pursuing them will take you down;
if they are above you, then they will take you up.
If they are some of both they will take you round and round
in an ascending and descending spiral,
depending on which has the greater influence.
-Lyn Birkbeck

Some desires are necessary
to keep life in motion.
-Samuel Johnson

One must not lose desires.
they are mighty stimulants
to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
-Alexander A. Bogomoletz

Keep a tight rein on desire,
but do not give up desire altogether.
-Vishnu Sharma

Who desires more will live longer.
-Kahlil Gibran

I hope that I may always desire
more than I can accomplish.
-Michelangelo Buonarroti