Quotes About Desire

Everything we want to accomplish—to paint the house, learn a new language, find a better job—is something that promises that, if done, it would allow us to finally relax and enjoy our lives in the present. Generally speaking, this is a false hope.

We manage to avoid being happy while struggling to become happy, fulfilling one desire after the next, banishing our fears, grasping at pleasure, recoiling from pain—and thinking, interminably, about how best to keep the whole works up and running

I want to maximize my happiness, but I am generally not moved to do what I believe will make me happier than I now am.

Faith is little more than the shadow cast by our hope for a better life.

Our pleasures, however refined or easily acquired, are by their very nature fleeting. They begin to subside the instant the arise, only to be replaced by fresh desires or feelings of discomfort.

Love, you mock us for your sport.

No hot guys should be allowed to have an English accent and drive a motorcycle. Not to mention wear the leather jacket or sport the cool shades. Hot guys should be forced into footie pajamas.

I look forward to another good year next year. It would be nice to win, too.

Well, I think just a desire to come back and be a part of the game again.

Competition works best in sports, but humans get addicted to stuff.

As an athlete, you choose your sport and are drawn into it but your passion should never be driven by fame and fortune but a desire to create something special that people will always remember.

Kids on a team are like flowers in a bouquet, there is always one that wants to face a different way than the arranger desires.

I want a life of good sport, good people and the competition that goes with it.

Winning isn't everything--but wanting to win is.

Stiff, huh? I think seeing you roll around on the floor in that tight little outfit accomplished that.

You need something more from me—something I wasn't able to give you before.

I have nothing to make me feel good, except for you. The last thing I want to do is turn you into my new drug of choice.

I used to want to shoot my age. Now I would just like to shoot my temperature.

Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.

He pours light into our minds, arouses our desire and gives us strength... As the soul is the life of the body, so the Holy Spirit is the life of our souls.

Strength is not nearly as important as desire. I don't think you can teach anyone desire. I think it's a gift. I don't know why I have it, but I do.

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

Every desire is a viper in the bosom, who while he was chill was harmless; but when warmth gave him strength, exerted it in poison.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.