“Great labour, either of mind or body, continued for several days together is, in most men, naturally followed by a great desire of relaxation, which, if not restrained by force, or by some strong necessity, is almost irresistible.”

“It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.”

“The desire of being believed, the desire of persuading, of leading, and directing other people, seems to be one of the strongest of all our natural desires.”

“Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely.”

“Thwarting of unimportant desires produces no psychopathological results; thwarting of a basically important need does produce such results. Any theory of psychopathogenesis must then be based on a sound theory of motivation. A conflict or a frustration is not necessarily pathogenic. It becomes so only when it threatens or thwarts the basic needs, or partial needs that are closely related to the basic needs (10).”

“The conscious motivational content of everyday life has, according to the foregoing, been conceived to be relatively important or unimportant accordingly as it is more or less closely related to the basic goals. A desire for an ice cream cone might actually be an indirect expression of a desire for love. If it is, then this desire for the ice cream cone becomes extremely important motivation. If however the ice cream is simply something to cool the mouth with, or a casual appetitive reaction, then the desire is relatively unimportant. Everyday conscious desires are to be regarded as symptoms, as surface indicators of more basic needs.”

“The desire to know and to understand are themselves conative, i.e., have a striving character, and are as much personality needs as the "basic needs" we have already discussed.”

“It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.”

"I love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold"

"We are captives, even if our wheat grows over the fences/ and swallows rise from our broken chains./ We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are."

No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China's behavior overnight.

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

There are two men in each one of us: the scientist, he who starts with a clear field and desires to rise to the knowledge of Nature through observations, experimentation and reasoning, and the man of sentiment, the man of belief, the man who mourns his dead children, and who cannot, alas, prove that he will see them again, but who believes that he will, and lives in the hope – the man who will not die like a vibrio, but who feels that the force that is within him cannot die.

So since I'm still here livin', I guess I will live on. I could've died for love-- But for livin' I was born.

"Every man makes a god of his own desire."

"I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages."

"King Solomon drew merchantmen, / Because of his desire / For peacocks, apes and ivory, / From Tarshish unto Tyre."

"For us who are observers of ourselves there can never be a hidden desire or hidden motivation. If we are always observing ourselves nothing hidden can come in without being spotted, and nothing hidden can get done, because we (the master) are always there."

"I will keep on hurdling and keep on hustling."

“Only those who can dream big can walk forward in the road of victory.”

"What you would desire others to do for you, you should do for others. You should respect others, as you want to be respected by them."

"Desire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated."

"Desire leads to ultimate ruin."

"Desire plus life is man, Life minus desire is God."