Remember that not getting what you want can be a wonderful stroke of luck.

The unobtainable is always the most desirable.

Our actions are never as good or as bad as our desires.

Strong hates reveal our secret desires.

Discontent arises more from our desires than from our needs.

He is rich who desires little.

Riches increase rather than satisfy our desires.

Happiness is being able to admire without desiring.

Desire is another form of fear.

It is the forbidden that is most desirable.

What we desire but cannot have - that we then ridicule.

To want for nothing is to have everything.

The more we have, the more we want.

Wanting soon becomes a habit.

Contentment is to want for nothing.

Greed grows by what it feeds on.

Having the least desires takes us nearer to paradise.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Forbid something and it soon becomes desirable.

Much of desire is visual.

The things we desire are often more dangerous than the things we fear.

Desire is the root of all suffering.