Quotes About Desire

Vi alguna lágrima. El hombre alzaba o alejaba la voz y los acordes casi iguales eran monótonos o, mejor aún, infinitos. Yo hubiera querido que el canto siguiera para siempre y fuera mi vida. ...

Su modestia y su anhelo de agradar eran tan duraderos que muchas noches comenzó por defensa y acabó por confesión, siempre al servicio de las inclinaciones del pueblo.

No nos une el amor sino el espanto; Será por eso que la quiero tanto.

Nu exist? om care s? nu tânjeasc? dup? împlinire, altfel spus, dup? cunoaÈ™terea experienÈ›elor pe care un om e în stare s? le tr?iasc?; nu exist? om care s? nu se team? c? s-ar putea s? i se r?peasc? o parte din acest patrimoniu f?r? sfârÈ™it.

Hay quien busca el amor de una mujer para olvidarse de ella, para no pensar más en ella.

El más pródigo amor le fue otorgado El amor que no espera ser amado (Hem viel de rijkelijkste liefde toe, De liefde die geen wederliefde hoeft.)

Even the unhappy lover is happier than the nonlover, with whom the lover would never change places. In the fact of loving he has already partaken of something beloved.

Man is not happy by virtue of his being. Rather, his whole existence is determined precisely by the non possession of ultimate gratification.

The way in which we see things can hardly be distinguished from the way in which we wish to see them.

Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.

There's something sexy in cooking for a man who likes my food. Am I growing up?

C'est une longue histoire, je crois. (...) Je désirais la lui raconter sans détours, mais je ne la voyais pas ainsi. Les histoires sont toujours pleines de détours.

T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop them and the radiance comes. (16)

Maslow's five values are the values for which people live when they have nothing to live for. Nothing has seized them, nothing has caught them, nothing has driven them spiritually mad and made them worth talking to.

What does the soul truly want is a story

It is, indeed, very little that we need! But lacking that, the adventure into the labyrinth is without hope.

We no longer desire and fear; we are what was desired and feared.

When the Buddha declares there is escape from sorrow, the escape is Nirvana, which is not a place, like heaven, but a psychological state of mind in which you are are released from desire and fear. And your life becomes harmonious, centered and affirmative. Even with suffering. The Buddhists speak of the bodhisattva - the one who knows immortality, yet voluntarily enters into the field of the fragmentation of time and participates willingly and joyfully in the sorrows of the world.

The girl was absorbed in him, without consciousness or shame.

With passion you want to possess. The conversion of passion into compassion is the whole problem of marriage.

When you are no longer compelled by desire or fear…When you have seen the radiance of eternity in all the forms of time…When you follow your bliss…doors will open where you would not have thought there were doors…and the world will step in and help

Desire and fear: these are the two emotions by which all life in the world is governed.

The passage to fulfillment lies between the perils of desire and fear.

The rainy Pleiads wester, Orion plunges prone, The stroke of midnight ceases, And I lie down alone. The rainy Pleiads wester And seek beyond the sea The head that I shall dream of, And 'twill not dream of me.