Quotes About Desire

Enemies could become the best companions. Companionship is based on a common interest, and the greater the interest the closer the companionship. What makes enemies of people, if not the eagerness, the passion for the same thing?

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it.

No one in this world needs a mink coat but a mink.

From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.

There is only one big thing-desire. And before it, when it is big, all is little.

Energy is equal to desire and purpose.

What is man but his passion?

All passions exaggerate; it is because they do that they are passions.

It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you've wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane.

It is better to be envied than pitied.

Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. - Her lips suck forth my soul; see, where it flies! -

Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken. Defeat strips away false values and makes you realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel towards our distant goal.

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

We fear the thing we want the most.

May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have.

Men ... always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.

Greediness of getting more, deprives ... the enjoyment of what it had got.

Mankind, by the perverse depravity of their nature, esteem that which they have most desired as of no value the moment it is possessed, and torment themselves with fruitless wishes for that which is beyond their reach.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.

If we get everything that we want, we will soon want nothing that we get.

What is the proper limit for wealth? It is, first, to have what is necessary; and, second, to have what is enough.

There is a great difference between satisfaction and satiation.

Nothing is enough to the man for whom enough is too little.