James Russell Lowell

"To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires."

David Harold Fink

"Know what you want. Become your real self."

H. Stanley Judd

"You will live your life secure in that you are no longer manipulated by what other people want you to do and be, but are directed by your own inner desires."

William James

"Events are influenced by our very great desires."

Gaelic Proverbs

"More than we use is more than we want."

Paul J. Meyer

"A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants ''success consciousness'' which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing ''habit of success.''"

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

"You are what your deep driving desire is."

Emilie Cady

"Desire is the thing you want in incipiency."

Samuel Johnson

"Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment."

Thomas Troward

"Desire will in due time externalize itself as concrete fact."

Samuel Johnson

"Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy."

Quentin Crisp

"Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making."

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

"As an eagle, weary after soaring in the sky, folds its wings and flies down to rest in its nest, so does the shining Self enter the state of dreamless sleep, where one is freed from all desires."

William M. Peck

"There is a vast difference in some instances between what we really need and that which we think we must have, and the realization of this truth will greatly lessen the seeming discomfort in doing without."

Dutch Proverbs

"There are no better masters than poverty and wants."

Proverbs

"First deserve then desire."

Lao-Tzu

"Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires."

Aldous Huxley

"There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and the fear of death the poets have eloquently spoken. They command the world's sympathy. But there are also discreditable anguishes, no less excruciating than the others, but of which the sufferer dare not, cannot speak. The anguish of thwarted desire, for example."