What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Purpose is what gives life a meaning.
Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.
Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.
In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.
We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
Once something is a passion, the motivation is there.
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever.
Desire creates the power.