Quotes About Desire

That's when it struck me: people who choose being special over happy are addicts.

Without desire, one's original nature will be at peace.

You can say this, too, but you need to start chipping away—managing your worldly wants—before more time passes.

As the Buddha says in the Dhammapada, "The craving of one given to heedless living grows like a creeper. . . . Whoever is overcome by this wretched and sticky craving, his sorrows grow like grass after the rains.

It makes no sense in modern life to use our energies to have five cars, five bathrooms, or even five shirts, but we just . . . want them.

What exactly is the next marshmallow? Do you know what you want as you start making new sacrifices?

The only solution to this problem is to shed my attachments and redefine my desires. To do so is my path to enlightenment—and my second curve.

Your satisfaction is what you have, divided by what you want.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become, and the same is true of fame"—that's philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, writing in 1851, more than a century and half before social media was invented and made the whole problem ten times worse.

No utopia can ever give satisfaction to everyone, all the time. As their material conditions improve, men raise their sights and become discontented with power and possessions that once would have seemed beyond their wildest dreams. And even when the external world has granted all it can, there still remain the searchings of the mind and the longings of the heart.

I decided to work on things that obsess women because women can't resist things like lace, sequins, animal prints and python.

What I've found in doing research is that men want a relationship that feels fun. In other words, they want a relationship that has qualities or elements of their same-sex relationships - just like women do, too.

It is clear I have enough qualities to be in the starting XI of Liverpool. But when you never get a real chance, it's difficult.

Clearly, the qualities Poles admire in a secretary of state - foreign languages, diplomatic experience, even sense of humor - are emphatically not those desired in a head of state: So be it.

I definitely wanted to be playing the quarterback position.

Of course, anyone would want Marshawn Lynch. Any quarterback in the NFL.

But on the other hand, while disclaiming any change in my opinions, I desire equally to disclaim the representations of those opinions which have been put forward in some quarters.

I've never had to pretend to be having sex with somebody. I'm like the queen of the foreplay dissolve.

I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.

I drive by Baskin Robbins, and - I don't know, it's like - it's pretty hard. Or Dairy Queen. I go nuts. I just gotta keep going.

I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.

I'm on a perpetual quest for air-conditioning.

I started out with a quest for wanting to be in the magazine, and I discovered Hef and how wonderful he is. When he asked me out, I couldn't resist.

I don't think of myself predicting things. I'm expressing possibilities. Things that could happen. To a large extent it's a question of how badly people want them to.