Desire is the actual essence of man, in so far as it is conceived, as determined to a particular activity by some given modification of itself.

DESIRE — knowing what you want.

Desire is both imitative (we like what others like) and competitive (we want to take away from others what they have). As children, we wanted to monopolize the attention of a parent, to draw it away from other siblings. This sense of rivalry... makes people compete for the attention.

Desire is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.

Desire- grasping, clinging, greed, attachment - is a state of mind that defines what we think we need in order to be happy. We project all of our hopes and dreams of fulfillment onto some object of our attention. This may be a certain activity or outcome, a particular thing or person. Deluded by our temporary enchantment, we view the world with tunnel vision. That object, and that alone, will make us happy.

Desire is created when something happens in your life that suddenly changes the way you see yourself in relationship to your future.

Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want. I don’t think most of us realize that’s what it is. I think we go about desiring things all day long and then wonder why we’re unhappy. I like to stay aware of it, because then I can choose my desires very carefully. I try not to have more than one big desire in my life at any given time, and I also recognize it as the axis of my suffering. I realize the area where I’ve chosen to be unhappy. [5] Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.

Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.

Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.

Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.

Desire is the engine of creation.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement.

Desire is the ingredient that changes the hot water of mediocrity to the steam of outstanding success.

The essence of desire is to have no essential goal. Truly to desire, we must have recourse to people about us; we have to desire their desires.