“I desired dragons with a profound desire.”
“I desired dragons with a profound desire. Of course, I in my timid body did not wish to have them in the neighborhood. But the world that contained even the imagination of Fáfnir was richer and more beautiful, at whatever the cost of peril.”
“Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone.”
“[Agape love is] a profound concern for the welfare of another without any desire to control that other, to be thanked by that other, or to enjoy the process.”
“The desire that I may have no desire is itself a desire.”
“True ambition is not what we thought it was. True ambition is the profound desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of God.”