Desire

"Through patience, [one’s legitimate] desires are realized."

"The heart that is attached to lustful desires is unable to benefit from sincere exhortations."

"Velle suum cuique est, nec voto vivitur uno."

"This absoluteness of desire uninhibited by thoughts of virtue … represents the turn in philosophy away from trying to tame or perfect desire by virtue, and toward finding out what one’s desire is and living according to it. This is largely accomplished by criticizing virtue, which covers and corrupts desire. Our desire becomes a kind of oracle we consult; it is now the last word, while in the past it was the questionable and dangerous part of us."

"I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher."

"Have you seen he who has taken as his god his (own) desire, and God has sent him astray due to knowledge and has set a seal upon his hearing and his heart and put over his vision a veil? So who will guide him after God? Then will you not be reminded?"

"I like desires like children and their plays that tease me now and then into knowing life."

"Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man."

"Oh! could I throw aside these earthly bands That tie me down where wretched mortals sigh— To join blest spirits in celestial lands!"

"The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise."

"Lustful desires are fatal illnesses, and the best cure for them is acquiring patience against them."

"The covetous are never satisfied with money, nor lovers of wealth with their gain; so this too is vanity."