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Quotes About Desire

be really rich does not mean to be satisfied or contented with a little. No one ought to be satisfied with a little if he is capable of using and enjoying more.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
Desire is possibility seeking expression, or function seeking performance.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
When all the gold and silver has been dug from the earth, if man is still in such a stage of social development that he needs gold and silver, more will produced from the Formless. The Formless Stuff responds to the needs of man; it will not let him be without any good thing.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
There is nothing wrong in wanting to get rich. The desire for riches is really the desire for a richer, fuller, and more abundant life, and that desire is praiseworthy.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
Your part is to intelligently formulate your desire for the things which make for a larger life and to get these desires arranged into a coherent whole.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
but you will get rich most satisfactorily if you do that which you WANT to do. Doing what you want to do is life, and there is no real satisfaction in living if we are compelled to be forever doing something which we do not like to do
~ Wallace D. Wattles
You naturally want to become all that you are capable of becoming; this desire to realize innate possibilities is inherent in human nature.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
That which makes you want more money is the same as that which makes the plant grow; it is Life, seeking fuller expression.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
There is nothing wrong in wanting to get rich. The desire for riches is really the desire for a richer, fuller, and more abundant life. And, that desire is praiseworthy. The person who does not desire to live more abundantly is uncommon. The individual who does not desire to have money enough to buy all that is desired may not be living to full potential.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
There things are well enough, but all you need is to know what you want, and to want it badly enough so that it will stay in your thoughts.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
He wants all these things because it is Himself that enjoys and appreciates them; it is God who wants to play, and sing, and enjoy beauty, and proclaim truth and wear fine clothes, and eat good foods. "It is God that worketh in you to will and to do," said Paul.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
I no longer knew how to distinguish between the sweet light of tenderness and the blackness of sensuality
~ Wallace Fowlie
Foe him, The Doors is the story of a young man who wants to break all the limits of life
~ Wallace Fowlie
It happens that I despise that locution, "having sex," which describes something a good deal more mechanical than making love and a good deal less fun than fucking.
~ Wallace Stegner
What the disorderly crave above everything is order, what the dislocated aspire to is location.
~ Wallace Stegner
Democritus plucked his eye out because he could not look at a woman without thinking of her as a woman. If he had read a few of our novels, he would have torn himself to pieces.
~ Wallace Stevens
It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.
~ Wallace Stevens
Next to love is the desire for love.
~ Wallace Stevens
If sex were all, then every trembling hand Could make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words.
~ Wallace Stevens
Desiring the exhilarations of changes: The motive for metaphor, shrinking from The weight of primary noon ...
~ Wallace Stevens
The greatest poverty is not to live In a physical world, to feel that one's desire Is too difficult to tell from despair.
~ Wallace Stevens
The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.
~ Wallace Stevens
The mind can never be satisfied.
~ Wallace Stevens
I still feel the need of some imperishable bliss.
~ Wallace Stevens