The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
This is what sexism does best: it makes you feel crazy for desiring parity and hopeless about ever achieving it.
By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
I don't recall ever desiring to go as fast as possible.
So many of our young women today, they're growing up without a father, but they're still thirsty for that and desiring positive male love.
So many people subconsciously shy away from getting rich because they believe they'll be judged, they'll lose the people they love, they believe that desiring money is a bad thing, money is the root of all evil, etc.
I could heartily wish that every commission officer was to be previously examined; for, to my certain knowledge, there are persons who have already crept into commission without abilities or fit qualification: I am myself far from desiring to be excused.
