<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Desire - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The starting point of all achievement is desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66456]]></link><description><![CDATA[The starting point of all achievement is desire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64264]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou have passed through. Forbearance is the root ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63815]]></link><description><![CDATA[When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou have passed through. Forbearance is the root of all quietness and assurance forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63464]]></link><description><![CDATA[A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you desire something from the bottom of your heart, then the entire universe will work for you to give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63038]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you desire something from the bottom of your heart, then the entire universe will work for you to give what you want. The more you believe in the process, the more you will attract towards you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two tragedies in life. One is not get your heart's desire. The other is to get it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11991]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two tragedies in life. One is not get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11974]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11975]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More than we use is more than we want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11978]]></link><description><![CDATA[More than we use is more than we want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not who jumps the highest -- it's who wants it the most ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11980]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not who jumps the highest -- it's who wants it the most]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11981]]></link><description><![CDATA[What man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We pursue that which retreats from us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11982]]></link><description><![CDATA[We pursue that which retreats from us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the rose. Lust is the thorn.http://www.sathyasai.org. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the rose. Lust is the thorn.http://www.sathyasai.org.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you want to bewith your love by the seahearing the gullsongsmelling the salt airfeeling the sandbeneath your toesand the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you want to bewith your love by the seahearing the gullsongsmelling the salt airfeeling the sandbeneath your toesand the seaweedthe sea's legacy?watching the riseoer the bay of the moonand then ascentof the Sun.. oer neptune?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11985]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desire is the essence of a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desire is the essence of a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11987]]></link><description><![CDATA[By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All human activity is prompted by desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11988]]></link><description><![CDATA[All human activity is prompted by desire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11989]]></link><description><![CDATA[We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by a keen desire and by definite resolution to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by a keen desire and by definite resolution to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11967]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desire, like the atom, is explosive with creative force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desire, like the atom, is explosive with creative force.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desire is the very essence of man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desire is the very essence of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11970]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first principle of success is desire -- knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11971]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first principle of success is desire -- knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's so much better to desire than to have. . . . The moment of desire, when you know something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11972]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's so much better to desire than to have. . . . The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen -- that's the most exalting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do desire we may be better strangers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11959]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do desire we may be better strangers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle of hay. Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle of hay. Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had doting Priam checked his son's desire, Troy had been bright with fame, and not with fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had doting Priam checked his son's desire, Troy had been bright with fame, and not with fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11963]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow,  The devotion to something afar ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11964]]></link><description><![CDATA[The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow,  The devotion to something afar   From the sphere of our sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We grow like flowers, and bear desire, The odor of the human flowers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11965]]></link><description><![CDATA[We grow like flowers, and bear desire, The odor of the human flowers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11945]]></link><description><![CDATA[The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11946]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion, it lies in all of us, sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted... unbidden... it will stir... open its jaws and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion, it lies in all of us, sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted... unbidden... it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us... passion rules us all, and we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... and the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion maybe we'd know some kind of peace... but we would be hollow... Empty rooms shuttered and dank. Without passion we'd be truly dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to have fun. I want to shine like the sun. I want to be the one that you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11949]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to have fun. I want to shine like the sun. I want to be the one that you want to see. I want to knit you a sweater. I want to write you a love letter. I want to make you feel better. I want to make you feel free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11950]]></link><description><![CDATA[We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11951]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11951</guid></item></channel></rss>