Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

For you can only be free when even the desire of seeking freedom becomes a harness to you.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts prosecution.

Your radiance shines in every atom of creation yet our petty desires keep it hidden.

Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.

If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than they need.

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.