A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.
Thomas Merton

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.
Blaise Pascal

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.
Blaise Pascal

The discipline of desire is the background of character.
John Locke

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
Lord Byron

Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.
Lord Byron

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.
Lord Byron

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

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.
George W. Bush

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.
George W. Bush

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
Epictetus

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
Epictetus

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
Epictetus

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.
Epictetus

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
Rumi

Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
Marianne Williamson

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.
Robert Collier