Desire creates its own object.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Desire creates the power.
The desire definitely comes from within. There are only a few people who make it to this level and those are the ones who have that innate desire.
Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.
Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.
Desire is individual. Happiness is common.
Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever.
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.
Consequently it will often happen there will be a desire of particular objects, in cases where they cannot be obtained without manifest injury to others.
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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.