
“Desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions.”
Desire https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2011/04/desire, Dallin H. Oaks, April 2011
Source: Cities of the Plain (1998)
“Desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions.”
Desire https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2011/04/desire, Dallin H. Oaks, April 2011
Letter to George Washington (5 April 1769)
As quoted in "Farrakhan in Speech: 'My Time Is Up' " by Jeff Karoub, ABC News (26 February 2007)
See also Isaiah 29:13 http://biblehub.com/isaiah/29-13.htm
Attributed in Jack Kornfield, A Path with Heart (1993) and popularized in Richard Carlson's bestselling Don't sweat the Small Stuff (1997). The phrasing is anachronistic and no earlier connection to Franklin is known.
Misattributed
“The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires.”