Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
Your ability to use the principle of auto-suggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to CONCENTRATE upon a given DESIRE until that desire becomes a BURNING OBSESSION.
Enough is so vast a sweetness, I suppose it never occurs, only pathetic counterfeits.
You can get anything in this world if you genuinely don’t want it.
When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
We ought not to desire the impossible.[Non si debbe desiderare lo impossibile.]
The stroke of death is as a lover’s pinch, which hurts, and is desired.
Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.
O, how ripe in show thy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting grow.
My paramount desire today, which guides me in everything I do, is an ambition to harness the forces of nature for the service of mankind.
My more-having would be as a sauce to make me hunger more.
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
