Desires

I love those who yearn for the impossible

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble

Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife

Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed

Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained

Man's desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable

The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much

In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike

When a man's busy, why leisure strikes him as wonderful pleasure: faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightaway he wants to be busy

As is your sort of mind, so is your sort of search: You'll find what you desire

Had I but plenty of money, money enough and to spare, the house for me, no doubt, were a house in the city-square

As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid

We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued