Quotes About Desires

Societies and people that come close to being happy are those that do well in narrowing the disparity between their desires and their needs, especially the material things of life.

In the world of today, human desires far supersede human needs. Waste, as you can see, is the result of all of those contradictions. That is how we ended up complicating our world.

In today's world, human desires far supersede human needs. Waste, as you can see, is the result of that disparity.

So long as the soul of man is encased in one, two, or three body-containers, sealed tightly with the corks of ignorance and desires, he cannot merge with the sea of Spirit.

Your words reveal your wants but your actions reveal your expectations.

Desires and Karma are the worst enemies living in the same soul together. It depends on us whom we choose and feed.

Positive thoughts are the birthing ground for making your dreams, goals, and desires come true.

Pray for your needs, not your greed.

Women want men, careers, money, children, friends, luxury, comfort, independence, freedom, respect, love, and a three-dollar pantyhose that won't run.

A girl is different. They want things. They need things on a regular schedule. Why, a girl's got purposes you and me can't even imagine. They got ideas in their heads you and me can't even suppose.

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.

I was taught to be demure, so it was harder for me to learn how to stand up for myself and go, 'What do I want? What are my desires?'

With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.

If we feel the least degradation in being amorous, or merry or hungry, or sleepy, we are so far bad animals & miserable men.

A man's wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

When all desires of heart die, mortal man becomes Immortal.

The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.

Art will liberate itself from the needs and desires of men. No longer will we paint a forest ora horseas we like oras theyappear to us, but as they really are.

All laws which can be broken without any injury to another, are counted but a laughing-stock, and are so far from bridling the desires and lusts of men, that on the contrary they stimulate them.

In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.

The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.

WE HAVE SEEN that hunger and breathing are desires of the body. There are other desires that are not of the body, but again man seldom pauses to observe these desires in himself.