Quotes About Desire

El consumismo nos dice que para ser felices hemos de consumir tantos productos y servicios como sea posible.

el sufrimiento surge del deseo; la única manera de liberarse completamente del sufrimiento es liberarse completamente del deseo; y la única manera de liberarse del deseo es educar la mente para experimentar la realidad tal como es.

Everyone always wants money because everyone else also always wants money,

We tend to believe that if we could just change our workplace, get married, finish writing that novel, buy a new car or repay the mortgage, we would be on top of the world. Yet when we get what we desire we don't seem to be any happier. Buying cars and writing novels do not change our biochemistry. They can startle it for a fleeting moment, but it is soon back to its set point.

The more significance we give our feelings, the more we crave them, and the more we suffer

Eating ice cream is enjoyable; finding true love is more enjoyable; do you think that if you just eat enough ice cream, the accumulated pleasure could ever equal the rapture of true love?

The most important thing I realised was that the deepest source of my suffering is in the patterns of my own mind. When I want something and it doesn't happen, my mind reacts by generating suffering. Suffering is not an objective condition in the outside world. It is a mental reaction generated by my own mind. Learning this is the first step towards ceasing to generate more suffering.

Buddha agreed with modern biology and New Age movements that happiness is independent of external conditions. Yet his more important and far more profound insight was that true happiness is also independent of our inner feelings. Indeed, the more significance we give our feelings, the more we crave them, and the more we suffer. Buddha's recommendation was to stop not only the pursuit of external achievements, but also the pursuit of inner feelings.

People pursue wealth and power, acquire knowledge and possessions, beget sons and daughters, and build houses and palaces. Yet no matter what they achieve, they are never content.

being satisfied with what you already have is far more important than getting more of what you want.

Yet even when we experience pleasant things we are never content. We either fear that the pleasure might disappear, or we hope that it will instensify

Comer helado es agradable. Encontrar el amor verdadero es más agradable. ¿Cree el lector que si comemos suficiente helado, el placer acumulado podría llegar a equipararse con el embeleso del amor verdadero?

Since fire's born of fire, why should we desire To gather up its scattered ash. On the appointed day we surrendered what we were To a vaster blaze, the evening sky.

Celle qui ruine l'etre, la beaute . . .

The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.

The most beautiful makeup for a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.

We want customers who need our clothing, not just desire it.

What do you want?" I ask. "A large slice of humble pie?" "We don't serve that here." "Sure we do," Dan calls. "But you ate it all." I glance over my shoulder at him. "Do you mind?

And when I found your flesh did not resist, It was the living spirit that I kissed.

She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good sentence.

I am very selfish, really. I lived for love.

I'm at the point in my life when I'm ready to have a baby. Something real in a crazy world.

With women the best part is the discovery. There's nothing like the first time, nothing. You don't know what life is until you undress a woman the first time. A button at a time, like peeling a hot sweet potato on a winter's night.

Man ... heats up like a lightbulb: red hot in the twinkling of an eye and cold again in a flash. The female, on the other hand...heats up like an iron. Slowly, over a low heat, like tasty stew. But then, once she has heated up, there's no stopping her.