If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in there cause, they can break the chain of any negative environment.
The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.
It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.
Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.
The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.
One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.
Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.
Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.
Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.
There are those who have a desire to love, but do not have the capacity to love.
People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all.
And I hereby distinctly and emphatically declare that I consider myself, and earnestly desire to be considered by others, as utterly divested, now and during the rest of my life, of any such rights, the barbarous relics of a feudal, despotic system.
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man.
Going after the unknown is always fascinating, I think. It becomes part of your life, this desire to know.