The phrase "moderate desire" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are talking about having enough of something but not too much. For example, "I have a moderate desire for success, but I don't want it to consume my life."
There is nothing ignoble, in contrast, about a calm and moderate desire to advance one's own welfare, married (as it is in most people) to a sympathetic regard for the well-being of others.
In the Republic, Plato shows himself the spiritual heir of Xenophanes when he states that the guardians of his ideal state are more deserving of honors and public support than the victors at Olympia, criticizes the stories told about the gods by the poets, and calls for a life of moderate desire and action.
It is perfectly possible that the new president, although he is clearly what we like to call "a moderate", desires such an outcome.
Still, many early modern philosophers endorsed a version of 'tranquility' that understood it to be a matter of long-lasting emotional satisfaction, achieved by fulfilling moderate desires, especially the desire for knowledge.
Some fragments suggest that moderation and mindfulness in one's pursuit of pleasures is beneficial; others focus on the need to free oneself from dependence on fortune by moderating desire.
While many people have an affinity for wild animals, not all of them are able to moderate their desire to be close to them.
The risk that inflation would fail to moderate as desired remained their main concern, according to minutes of the meeting.In Japan the jobless rate fell to a nine-year low of 3.8% in April.
For it is Epicurus alone who has made life genuinely worth living, not only by releasing us from the torment of fear but also by teaching us how to moderate our desires to the point where we can enjoy their genuine and lasting satisfaction.
[12] Such manifestations include the experiences of erotic and platonic love; the drive to knowledge; the experience of being moved by the emotion expressed in music; the voice of conscience, which compels us to moderate our desires to avoid infringing on the freedom of others; compassion; admiration; and the urge to overcome our own moral and intellectual limitations.
A moderate correlation between desire thinking, craving and rumination indicated that these concepts can be considered as divergent constructs.
There was a moderate association between desire for learning (r =.36, r2 =.13), highest degree held (r =.29, r2 =.08), practicality (r =.27, r2 =.07) and nonconformity (r =.24, r2 =.06) and the propensity to adopt EBP.
