I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.
I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.
Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one's own desires through which one listens.
If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.
Why can't I just eat my waffle?
I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.
Shall I, that have destroyed my Preservers, return home?
Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
“Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.”