Quotes About Desire

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But it was hard to keep his hands still. He could almost feel them twitching emphatically with his strong desire to reach out and stroke the dog's head. He had such a terrible yearning to love something again, and the dog was such a beautiful ugly dog.

Is marijuana addictive? Yes, in the sense that most of the really pleasant things in life are worth endlessly repeating.

To want any one thing too much is barbaric.

Pleasure and desire are altogether different things in the brain.

The hedonic treadmill says that no matter how much you have right now, you will want more, and when you get more, you will want more still—unless you're wise enough to save your money for some of the things that do lead to happiness.

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.

To program their psychological matrices to include promiscuity and masochism.

Could it be that to truly love a thing is not to desire it, but to desire happiness for it?

I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are.

It is not the ability to walk that pleases God, it is the desire to walk. The desire to do the right thing. The truest measure of a man is what he desires. The measure of that desire is seen in the actions that follow.

To truly live is more than taking the next breath---it's to hope and dream and love.

It is that to which we cling that drags us to the bottom of the abyss. There is real power at having nothing to lose.

I sighed. "Now what do I do?" He leaned against my wall. "What do you want to do?" "Since when has that mattered?" "It's always mattered. It doesn't mean you'll get what you want, but what you want always matters. That's what defines you.

All women like chocolate, it's like female catnip.

Romance novels are all about desire and happily-ever-after, but happily-ever-after doesn't come from desire—at least not the kind portrayed in pulp romances. Real love is not to desire a person but to desire their happiness—sometimes even at the expense of our own happiness. Real love is to expand our own capacity for tolerance and caring, to actively seek another's well-being. All else is simply a charade of self-interest.

To love someone is to desire their happiness. [Richelle Bach]

The measure of love isn't how much you want someone. It's revealed in what you want for them.

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There are dreams that are meant to be shared and dreams to be kept hidden in our hearts. It's sometimes difficult to know which is which.

Never trade what you love for what's behind curtain B. Never.

None of us has a death wish.

We live in a world that's always making us work for love.

I still think the greatest hurt isn't to lose love, it's the regret of never having it. To have never felt love, that would be true tragedy.