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Desire creates its own object.

Desire creates the power.

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.

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

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.

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.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.