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You know that we have a great variety of ways to gratify our own desires.

Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

We inhabit a world where we're taught that we can have what we desire, and tend to act on it - the least we can do is admit to it when we succumb to our instincts.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

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

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.

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

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