it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.

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

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.

Love must feel the ego of the beloved person as important as one's own ego, and must realize the other's feelings and wishes as though they were one's own.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbors, or even our relations.