QUOTATION: Unlimited Desire

But this width and depth of passion is still more immense in man, because man's intellect grasps universal good and man's will desires that boundless good which is found in God alone. Hence when man's will does not follow the straight road to God, when man seeks supreme happiness not in God but in creatures, then his concupiscence becomes insatiable, because he has unlimited desires for a good that is limited.

--Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, Life Everlasting

QUOTATION: Desires

Nothing gives more trouble and affliction than uncontrolled desires of the heart.

--Thomas a Kempis

QUOTATION: Worldly Desires

As long as our hearts keep vacillating among the many wants of the world, we cannot move forward in life with inner peace and joy.

--Fr. Henri Nouwen

QUOTATION: Desires

It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.

-- C.S. Lewis

QUOTATION: Happiness

No one is really happy merely because he has what he wants, but only because if he wants things he ought to want.

--St. Augustine