Quotes About Desire

There is no morality without temptation; otherwise it is just lack of opportunity.

Leaders are made through discipline, training, experience, failure, and the desire to continually improve.

The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn.

To be well-educated is to have the desire as well as the means to make sure that learning never ends.

Like jilted and disappointed lovers, some of my students just want to be left alone.

Lust and learning. That's really all there is, isn't it?

I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific.

The drive to learn is as strong as the sexual drive. It begins earlier and lasts longer

The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.

Learning is a deep human need, like mating and eating, and like all such needs it is meant to be deeply pleasurable to human beings.

Learning is like a cow of desire. It, like her, yields in all seasons.

If you desire ease, forsake learning. If you desire learning, forsake ease.

Paradoxically, the more I learned to let go of my own wishes and desires (in this case, the desire not to be hit), the more they became possible.

We are not born with a need for knowledge, but a hunger for it. Eve bit the apple and it has been gluttony ever since.

There's no disillusionment like learning that forbidden fruit can be unpleasant.

Never say that you regret something, because at one point in your life, you wanted it.

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

You will receive everything you need when you stop asking for what you do not need

There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.