Quotes About Desire

The world is going to be remade, not reconditioned. All its would-be renovators are powerless to stop this. If these experts do not understand me, so much the better; I certainly have no desire to understand them.

For consumer society poverty is whatever cannot be consumed.

Jealousy is a human trait, cultivated by petty people who will never be what they want to be, or will never have what they want to have.

Do not seek what you do not wish to find.

People tend to conceive things as true when they wish them to be true.

The mind can also be an erogenous zone.

SOMETIMES BEING TOO CLOSE TO THE GOALS WE SEEK IN LIFE CAUSES US TO HAVE LESS A DESIRE TO ENJOY THE TRUE IMPORTANCE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF LIFE ITSELF. eg. MOST PEOPLE LIVING CLOSE TO THE NIAGARA FALLS SEEM TO VISIT IT LESS, BUT WILL QUICKLY CARRY SOME VISITOR TO SEE IT.

I want a baby and I want a family, for sure.

I have to say, you know, I've seen so many people go through the cycle and become famous and not famous anymore and, you know, want - have their priorities change and want different things.

I don't want to be an artist, go on tour and make a video and wear sexy clothes. I would just love to make music.

The freedom of Brahman surrounds those whose minds are controlled, who know themselves and who release themselves from selfish desire and anger with sustained effort. (5.24

Your sadness is because of the thorn of desire in your heart. If you don`t take notice of it, it will turn into sarcasm, cynicism, frustration, and anger. You need to pull it out and throw it, then you will feel uplifted and happy.

When longing disappears, love disappears.

I am absolutely convinced that meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain; meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure. And that is why we find ourselves emptied of meaning with our pantries still full.

I tried gambling and it never paid off, women make you suffer, and greed has no end...

It's also a time-honored, hardwired tradition for children to not want what their parents push on them.

Dreams, if they're any good, are always a little bit crazy.

I couldn't tell, and I cared not at all. It was not her sex appeal but the obvious relish with which she devoured the hamburger that made my pulse begin to hammer with excitement

When people have difficulty achieving regular releases of dopamine through these kinds of socially accepted activities, they will often seek a shortcut.

hay algo dentro de mi que se arrastra hacia fuera, como la mano de un hombre dormido en una barca que se descuelga hasta tocar el agua.

If everything that looks like love really were love, my God, this would be a different and better world and even the darkest nightmares would be followed by unbearably happy days.

The spring of Christian power runs all the way down to what we desire. Most of what we do in life, we do out of the desires of our hearts. This is humbling, but true. So the more our hearts love the Lord, the more progress we will make.

Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.

And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.