Quotes About Desires

Patiti, voleti, biti sre?an, nesre?an: sve se dešavalo unutra, u misteriji našeg mozga, medu milijardama neurona. Želja, se?anje, strah, agresivnost, misao, san, zavisili su delom od lu?enja razli?itih hemijskih supstanci, neurotransmitera, zaduženih za prenos poruka od jednog do drugog neurona.

Dharma is precisely this 'discipline of ordered existence', a 'belief system that restrains and gives coherence to desires.

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

Man lives in his dreams, that is where he gets his only reward and receives his only pleasure.

Hay deseos que se ahogan en nuestra alma de mujer, sin que los revele más que un suspiro; ideas locas que cruzan por nuestra imaginación, sin que ose formularlas el labio, fenómenos incomprensibles de nuestra naturaleza misteriosa, que el hombre no puede ni aun concebir.

The more he identifies with the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own life and his own desires. The spectacle's estrangement from the acting subject is expressed by the fact that the individual's gestures are no longer his own; they are the gestures of someone else who represents them to him.

The unattended mind lives with unending wants, while the awakened mind understands that its own watchfulness is the fullness it seeks.

We are the total of our longings, he had written. But Kevin was a song-writer, not a poet, and he never did use it.

You're afraid of loving, you're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. Love comes down to our willingness to be vulnerable, to share our insecurities, and our desires that are only ours.

Sometimes we need to do some soul searching within ourselves. to find out what we really want for ourselves in order to be happy.

Each of us is a prisoner to some degree of his dream.

Unfortunately, however, I have too many desires to make a good Buddhist.

Fairytales work on two levels. On a conscious level, they are stories of true love and triumph and overcoming difficult odds and so are pleasurable to read. But they work on a deeper and symbolic level in that they play out our universal psychological dramas and hidden desires and fears.

Techno-humanism aims to amplify the power of humans, creating cyborgs and connecting humans to computers, but it still sees human interests and desires as the highest authority in the universe.

There are women so hard to please that it would seem as if nothing less than an angel would suit them; and hence it comes that they often encounter devils.

Most women have small waists the world throughout, But their desires are thousand miles about.

Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, than women's are.

Women can less easily surmount their coquetry than their passions.

You don't dream about angles and surfaces and so on. You dream about women, bread, smokes and trees.

You are no greater than the knowledge you acquire, the desires you harbor, and the experiences you cherish.

Gone are the days when women were attracted by a man's hansomeness. Today, we are talking about cash, and your compromise to become a tiger in bed.

At some point, extra incomes don't go to sate desires but to attempt to buy status through 'positional goods' - like the hottest car on the block. The problem is that there can only be one hottest car on the block.

I feel I've been faithful to my convictions and my desires. I've taken small, firm steps and I try to do things as beautiful and artistically as I can.

Serving one's own passions is the greatest slavery.