Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

I always wanted to be loved.

He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.

People are underestimating the force of angry kids.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

The stroke of death is as a lover’s pinch, which hurts and is desired.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

Freedom is a man’s natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Really showing love requires more than just words.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

Weight, force and casual impulse, together with resistance, are the four external powers in which all the visible actions of mortals have their being and their end.