Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.
Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.
We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.
The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
For many, 'desire' is a bad word, something we're supposed to 'give up for God.' That kind of thinking can be really destructive because it teaches people to deny their hearts, their true selves.
Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.
Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.
Desire creates the power.