Quotes About Desire

And humans will accept any story, however outlandish, when there's something in it for them. Preferably something green that folds.

I'm just a teenager with hormones running wild. And may I say, young fairy lady, they're running wild in your direction.

I like to be loved, he thought, but he did not voice the notion

Geen eenden. Alsjeblieft geen eenden. Ik zou de Nobelprijs nog winnen. - Artemis

My truffles?" gasped Opal. "You took them. That's just mean.

La manera en la que evaluamos un insulto, crítica o desprecio ajeno afecta en gran medida al perjuicio que este nos acaba ocasionando. Un individuo no provocará daño alguno sobre ti al menos que tú lo desees; habrá logrado lastimarte desde el preciso momento en el que te consideras lastimado.

Recuerda que debes conducirte en la vida como en un banquete. ¿Un plato ha llegado hasta ti? Extiende tu mano sin ambición, tómalo con modestia. ¿Se aleja? No lo retengas. ¿No ha llegado aún? No lances desde lejos tu deseo, sino que espera a que el plato esté a tu lado.

Não procures que tudo quanto acontece aconteça como desejas, antes deseja que tudo aconteça como de facto acontece. Desse modo serás feliz.

Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of men's desires, but by the removal of desire.

Who are those people by whom you wish to be admired? Are they not these whom you are in the habit of saying that they are mad? What then? Do you wish to be admired by the mad?

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Freedom is not archived by satisfying desire, but by eliminating it.

We are at the mercy of whoever wields authority over the things we either desire or detest. If you would be free, then, do not wish to have, or avoid, things that other people control, because then you must serve as their slave.

For where you find unrest, grief, fear, frustrated desire, failed aversion, jealousy and envy, happiness has no room for admittance. And where values are false, these passions inevitably follow.

Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

Let your will to avoid have no concern with what is not in man's power; direct it only to things in man's power that are contrary to nature.

Protect what belongs to you at all costs; don't desire what belongs to another.

He wants what he cannot have, and does not want what he can't refuse — and isn't aware of it. He doesn't know the difference between his own possessions and others'. Because, if he did, he would never be thwarted of disappointed. Or nervous.

Control thy passions lest they take vengeance on thee.

who is your master? Whoever has authority over anything that you're anxious to gain or avoid.

I want to die, even though I don't have to.

It is much better to die of hunger unhindered by grief and fear than to live affluently beset with worry, dread, suspicion and unchecked desire.

Don't you want to be free of all that? [33] 'But how can I do it?' You've often heard how – you need to suspend desire completely, and train aversion only on things within your power. You should dissociate yourself from everything outside yourself – the body, possessions, reputation, books, applause, as well as office or lack of office. Because a preference for any of them immediately makes you a slave, a subordinate, and prone to disappointment.