Quotes About Desire

We could turn this assertion around and state that a decision should involve the strength of our desire for a particular outcome as well as the degree of our belief about the probability of that outcome.

But the longing for Africa, once contracted, is an incurable condition which, like malaria, recurs again and again.

The pig had been killed because spirits, like people, cannot resist the smell of cooking pig.

The wants of the primitive are few, since he does not envy what he knows nothing of.

THERE COMES a time in the restoration of an old house when the desire to see it finished threatens all those noble aesthetic intentions to see it finished properly.

If you are not actively involved in getting what you want, you don't really want it.

While finding him sexually arousing, they also wanted to mother him. This would soon become both a worldwide tradition, as well as a repetition of Elvis's early personal experiences.

It was the feel of the cigarette between his fingers he wanted, the sharp intake of tobacco smoke into the lungs, not some slow oozing of poison through his skin into his blood. Pity about the health problems. He felt rather like St. Augustine must have felt when he wrote in his Confessions: "Give me chastity and continency—but not yet!

Kept herself fastened up as tight as a Scotsman's wallet, in spite of the sexy clothes and all. It was strictly top only for me." "So she was a tease?

Had we but world enough, and time . . .

The excessive pleasure we imagine receiving from what we want most of all is fleeting at best.

If our life has no meaning other than our own happiness, we are likely to find that when we have obtained what we think we need to be happy, happiness itself still eludes us.

Ishq and Mushq.

How we see depends, in part, on what we want to see.

The desire to replicate the—or a—viewer's view is realism's reason for being.

What's the point of a revolution without general copulation copulation copulation

I wish to go beyond the fire that burns me.

He who can describe how his heart is ablaze is burning on a small pyre] ~ Petrarch, Sonnet 137 (from Montaigne, On sadness)

Uncover what you long for and you will discover who you are.

In a nutshell, the Buddha taught that life is suffering and that the primary cause of our suffering is our desire for things to be different from the way they actually are. One moment, things may be going our way, and in the next moment they're not. When we try to prolong pleasure or reject pain, we suffer.

Neither formal education, desire, hard work, nor being a good person guarantees success... the most important key to success is self-motivation. And a consciously chosen vision of the future is a powerful aid to motivate yourself.

That little whisper—"You deserve it"—comes, I believe, from the worst part of our sinful natures, the part that always wants another cookie, a bigger house, a nicer TV. I'm pretty sure it's the same voice that told Hitler he "deserved" Poland.

Don't ask, don't get.

Sometimes what we think we need isn't what we need at all, and what gets thrown in for good measure is that which fills our hearts.