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Quotes About Desire

We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.
~ David Levithan, Every Day
I Wanna Be Rich Enough to Realize That I Can't Buy Happiness.
~ Bunny Naidu
He wanted to be an artist, an artist of life wasn't enough for him, although precisely this concept provides everything we need to be happy if we think about it.
~ Thomas Bernhard, The Loser
Unhappiness is the resultant of what you desire and happiness of what you don't.
~ Amit Abraham
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.
~ Peter Singer, Practical Ethics
Personal desire, age, and my health do not allow me to personally have a role in running the country [i.e. Iran] after the fall of the current system [of the Shah].
~ Ruhollah Khomeini
A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.
~ Robert Foster Bennett
To get everything you want is not a good thing. Disease makes health seem sweet. Hunger leads to the appreciation of being full-fed. Tiredness creates the enjoyment of resting
~ Heraclitus
Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
~ Henrik Ibsen
Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt; It 's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
The secret gives you anything you want; happiness, health, and wealth.
~ Bob Proctor
Since I was young my wish has been to die in perfect health - I mean to die with a body that is not destroyed by illness but a body that is consumed by its own long burning fire.
~ Laura Huxley
Yes, I like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain. I'm not much into health food, I am into Champagne.
~ Rupert Holmes
It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
~ Seneca the Younger
Every man that has felt pain knows how little all other comforts can gladden him to whom health is denied. Yet who is there does not sometimes hazard it for the enjoyment of an hour?
~ Samuel Johnson
Most Americans want health insurance.
~ Jacob Lew
To wish a healthy man to die is the wish from a mind of sickness. To wish an ailing man to die is the wish of the ambitious.
~ Roman Payne
I know how you clutched my back behind your house and sweated like a stallion whenever I came near!
~ Abigail Williams
I am trying to break free from my stripes addiction, but the pull is strong! I need help buying non-stripes.
~ Gillian Jacobs
Endeavors that help me satisfy you, my goddess of desire, pleasure, and corny one-liners.
~ Sylvia Day
Now, have I ever been tempted to break into a Krispy Kreme doughnut store in the middle of the night? Oh, yeah. God help us if I had a mini-bar stocked with cheesecake and chicken-fried steak.
~ Mike Huckabee
Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood.
~ Frank Langella
The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligation - to help them turn this desire into reality.
~ Condoleezza Rice
I already have a story that's been seen in Glory and I have had many highs and lows, victories and defeats. That brought me experience and it will help me a lot to gain the desired world title.
~ Anderson Silva