The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.

I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given the mind rests satisfied and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.

Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.

Man wants to live but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement not a hope not a wish but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

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.

In human history the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.

Hollywood has a history of raising expectations beyond Washington's reach of appealing to the very American desire to mythologize political leaders particularly the president.

Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason for it implies that the world and the course of human history have meaning.

If history and science have taught us anything it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?

A desire to be in charge of our own lives a need for control is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health and our success that we take control.

The fabric of North Carolina and what makes our state so special is our families and our common desire for a brighter future for our children. No matter what your family looks like we all want the same thing for our families - happiness health prosperity a bright future for our children and grandchildren.

Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness and likewise a variety of particular affections passions and appetites to particular external objects.

I don't have the recipe for happiness but I think the engine is simply having the desire.

Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran no matter how benign their intentions present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west.

I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.

The gratification of desire is not happiness.

All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.

Since every man desires happiness it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia happiness in the sense of living well which all men desire all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.