"Have no desire to place before God."

"Desire is a bonfire that burns with greater fury, asking for more fuel. Desire is the sole cause of sorrow and distress."

"Desire is like the shadow caused by the morning sun; it gets longer when you run to catch; it makes you a fool."

"Dispel desire, Develop true love."

"Human desire is illimitable and without end. It makes you pursue the mirage in the desert; it makes you build castles in the air; it breeds discontent and despair, once you succumb to it."

"I - Want – Peace,  I is ego, Want is desire; Remove ego and desire and you have peace."

"Desire is the worst enemy; it ruins many a human life. Desire when fulfilled breeds further desire."

"Desire makes man forget his real nature and reduces him to be status of a beast."

"Another point; you desire that I should come to your houses, you pray to Me to do so, you grieve when I do not come, you start reviling yourself that you are poorer than others, that you are spiritually underdeveloped perhaps, and so on. I have no place in My heart for such distinctions and differences."

"THE motherland is not a mere lump of earth. When we desire its progress, we have to promote the progress of the people who dwell therein."

"Desire destroys devotion, anger destroys wisdom, greed destroys work - hence these bad qualities must be sacrificed. With good and sweet words, keeping desires under check and control (for ultimate removal), one should start on the path of sacrifice."

"Making the desirable possible requires us to make the desirable popular, electable, credible, and something that people want to hold on to."

"Every man desires to acquire Ananda. From where can Ananda be acquired ? Faith alone can win Ananda."

"If a person desires to understand clearly the sacred books and scriptural texts of India, to imbibe their message, he must learn the Sanskrit language; he cannot avoid that responsibility and that duty."

"America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people."

"In order to enjoy the Word, we ought to continue to read it, and the way to obtain a spirit of prayer, is, to continue praying; for the less we read the Word of God, the less we desire to read it, and the less we pray, the less we desire to pray."

"If we desire our faith to be strengthened, we should not shrink from opportunities where our faith may be tried, and therefore, through trial, be strengthened."

"I desire many things concerning myself; but I desire nothing so much, as to have a heart filled with love to the Lord. I long for a warm personal attachment to Him."

"It's totally out of desire and totally out of belief that - not that I am essential, but that I am still a vibrant, wise human being with great dreams for the future, great hopes for the future, a great team to work with and a really great company to be involved with, ... I mean, this is my life."

"I am worried about the health of our best starters, but they have the desire to play and that makes me happy."

"Everybody who had the desire to play prepared themselves for this tournament. Our guys saw enough pitches. They had enough at-bats. No excuses."

"Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch."

"Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk."

"An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write."