Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now. Read Summary
I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots. Read Summary
Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence. Read Summary
Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die. Read Summary
The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics. Read Summary
It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills. Read Summary
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate. Read Summary
He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart, he put other different desires. Read Summary
Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds. Read Summary
The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer. Read Summary
I fear that too many have sadly surrendered their agency to the adversary and are saying by their conduct, 'I care more about satisfying my own desires than I do about bearing the Savior's power to bless others.' Read Summary
Think of God; attachments will gradually drop away. If you wait till all desires disappear before starting your devotion and prayer, you will have to wait for a very long time indeed. Read Summary
The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself. Read Summary
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. Read Summary
People are motivated by the desires for privilege, for power, for profit. Those are not shocking revelations. Anyone who's had any experience in life knows these things. Read Summary
Every human heart cries and yearns for the same thing: a chance to fulfill his or her own dreams and desires. Even the poorest man has a dream. Read Summary
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there. Read Summary
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. Read Summary
If you are not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there. Read Summary
Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh. Read Summary