Quotes About Desire

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

In books, you love somebody and want them, win them or lose them. In real life, so often, you love them and don't want them, or want them and don't love them.

All right,' said Moreland, 'love, then. Is it better to love somebody and not have them, or have somebody and not love them? I mean from the point of view of action – living intensely. Does action consist in having or loving? In having – naturally – it might first appear. Loving is just emotion, not action at all. But is that correct? I'm not sure.

Like many persons more interested in power than sensual enjoyment, Sillery touched no strong drink.

People can only be themselves,' she said. 'If they possessed the qualities you desire in them, they would be different people.' 'That is what I should like them to be.

Even then I did not recognise the quest for power.

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards.

Goals are like magnets. They'll attract the things that make them come true.

For most people, the fear of loss is much greater than the desire for gain.

1. What do I really want? (Vision.) 2. What is important about it? (Values.) 3. How will I get it? (Methods.) 4. What is preventing me from having it? (Obstacles.) 5. How will I know I am successful? (Measurements.)

The only reason we don't have what we want in life is the reasons we create why we can't have them.

You can be rich by having more than you need, or by needing less than you have.

If everything's given, you won't hunger

Para la mayoría de la gente, el temor a la pérdida es mucho mayor que el deseo de ganar.

five of Tony's questions: 1. What do I really want? (Vision.) 2. What is important about it? (Values.) 3. How will I get it? (Methods.) 4. What is preventing me from having it? (Obstacles.) 5. How will I know I am successful? (Measurements.)

All men dream, but not equally. —T. E. LAWRENCE

The second step is to take action—otherwise your desires will always be dreams. You must take the types of actions you believe will create the greatest probability of producing the result

For most people, the fear of loss is much greater than the desire for gain. Which

By resenting others' success, you condition yourself to avoid the very financial abundance that you need and desire.

You can fulfill your dreams. If you want it badly enough, you'll find a way.

Comprender y utilizar las fuerzas del dolor y del placer es lo que le permitirá, de una vez por todas, crear los cambios duraderos y las mejoras que desea para sí mismo y para aquellas personas que le importan. El no comprender esta fuerza le condena a un futuro en el que vivirá a base de reacciones, como un animal o una máquina.

Anything worth having is worth waiting for. Love, Marilyn.

Her happiness, like that of most of us, was ever in the future,—never reached but always coming.