Quotes About Desire

All change happens because one man wants something different.

Three Desiderata: location, location, and location, this ruin has all!

He divides his time between thinking about sex and thinking about mathematics.

the Sponsoring Thought behind every supplication is that you do not have now what you wish. That Sponsoring Thought becomes your reality.

God says you may not have anything you want. Why is this so? Answer #19: Because the mere act of wanting something tells the Universe that you don't have it, and the Universe has no choice but to reflect that back in your reality. You end up getting more "wanting what you want," because God always says "yes" to your Sponsoring Thought.

Even a thought that says I don't want something? If you don't want it, why think about it? Don't give it a second thought. Yet if you must think about it—that is, if you cannot not think about it—then do not resist. Rather, look at whatever it is directly—accept the reality as your creation—then choose to keep it or not, as you wish.

This means simply that you no longer need the things of your outside world. "Not needing" is a great freedom. It frees you, first, from fear: fear that there is something you won't have; fear that there is something you have that you will lose; and fear that without a certain thing, you won't be happy.

1. How is it possible that 6.9 billion people can all claim to want the same thing (peace, security, opportunity, prosperity, happiness, and love) and be singularly unable to get it?

All your life you have spent convincing yourself that you are bad. Not only that you are bad, but that the things you want are bad. Sex is bad, money is bad, joy is bad, power is bad, having a lot is bad—a lot of anything. Some of your religions have even got you believing that dancing is bad, music is bad, celebrating life is bad. Soon you'll agree that smiling is bad, laughing is bad, loving is bad.

I want to live but I want to die. What do I do?

It's such a silly little thing, the heart.

I eat not because I want to, not because I have to overcome anything, not to prove myself to anyone, but because it's there. I eat because that's what people do. And somehow when the food is put in front of you by an institution, when there's a large gray force behind it and you don't have to thank anyone for it, you have the animal instinct to make it disappear

I don't believe in destiny; I just believe in biology, and hotness, and wanting girls.

I just want to not be me. Whether it's sleeping or playing video games or riding my bike or studying. Giving my brain up. That's what's important.

Someday someone is going to find this pelvis sexy or I'll never have children.

I can smell the sex on her. I hope she smells the love on me.

I'm waiting for her to say Craig, what you need to do is X and for the Shift to occur. I want there to be a Shift so bad.

What were you tring to do, soldier? I was trying to eat, sir! And what happened? I got caught thinking about some crap, sir! What kind of crap? How I want to live less than my parent's dog.

I smile to myself. I have a secret: I wish I was Dumbo the Octopus.

But it suddenly makes sense: I'd like to be under the sea, as an octopus.

The opposite of the Tentacles are the Anchors. The Anchors are things that occupy my mind and make me feel good temporarily.

I want there to be a Shift so bad. I want to feel my brain slide back into the slot it was meant to be in, rest there the way it did before the fall of last year, back when I was young, and witty, and my teachers said I had incredible promise, and I HAD incredible promise, and I spoke up in class because I was excited and smart about the world. I was the Shift so bad. I'm waiting for the phrase that will invoke it. It'll be like a miracle within my life.

No woman ever gets given a fur coat for good reasons; if it's not to keep her on her back, it's to get her off his.

It is a law of nature that a dream carried for too long inside you must, eventually, begin to rot.