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I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.

— John Cleese

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

— Benjamin Franklin

Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.

— Eric Hoffer

I desire many things concerning myself; but I desire nothing so much, as to have a heart filled with love to the Lord. I long for a warm personal attachment to Him.

— George Muller

You can learn not to want what you want, to recognize desires but not be controlled by them.

— Henepola Gunaratana

If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.

— Mortimer Adler

I don't have any dark desires. And I think most people don't. A few have dark desires and don't sublimate them.

— Ruth Rendell

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.

— Rob Bell

We're born with the desire, but we don't really know how to choose. We don't know what our taste is, and we don't know what we are seeing.

— Sheena Iyengar

I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.

— Barbara Cook

✗Opposing Perspectives

We've been brought up to pick one thing in life and become really good at just that. But that's never what I wanted to be. I was always interested in many things at the same time, and I wanted to try all of them at the same time, too.

— Lakshmi Pratury