Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed.
Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.
A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.
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 creates its own object.
Desire creates the power.
We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations.
Human passions, like the forces of nature, are eternal; it is not a matter of denying their existence, but of assessing them and understanding them. Like the forces of nature, they can be subjected to man's deliberate act of will and be made to work in harmony with reason.
Force cannot transmit a moral principle: moral ideas can be received only through the reason of the heart.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.