Quotes About Desires

all our suffering is an expression and a reflection of the distance between reality and our desires and beliefs.

Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess.

Sexuality with all its attendant yearnings and pains, jealousies and taboos, is the most disturbing impulse humans have.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

Alexandra's fat bare toes, corned and bent by years in shoes shaped by men's desires and cruel notions of beauty

Everyone's sex life is funny except your own. Every person's is, and yours never is. The lengths people go to — and the extremes and the conditions and the mental exercises and guilt and shame and happiness that everybody goes through — and what they'll do for sex is never-ending and mind-boggling and very interesting to me. And I don't think a lot of times people choose any of it.

To break out of this trap of always being driven by our own desires, it is not a bad exercise to ask yourself from time to time, "What is my own way?" "What do I really want?" "Would I know it if I got it?" "Does everything have to be perfect right now, or under my total control right now, for me to be happy?

Having riches ultimately means having few needs.

Indeed, this life is a test. It is a test of many things - of our convictions and priorities, our faith and our faithfulness, our patience and our resilience, and in the end, our ultimate desires.

People's fantasies are what give them problems. If you didn't have fantasies you wouldn't have problems because you'd just take whatever was there.

I have a lot of fantasies about being tied up and spanked. I suppose it isn't very liberated, is it? What kind of fantasies do feminists have?

The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.

We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.

When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?

People are kept in line in society because they fear punishment. The assumption that underlies this mentality is that a human being will follow their desires without mitigation.

If your desires be endless your cares and fears will be so too.

With time, Life becomes more about your needs instead of your wants...

Love is not everything you want, but it's everything you need. It's not always happy endings, but it's happy in betweens.

Determination can bring success in our life, but dreams incite our desires...

Let your actions be for a purpose and let them be taken with passion. Develop the habit of making the best use of your chances and your desires will come to pass!

The life I really want to live, only exists in my daydreams.

The person capable of distinguishing between his desires and needs and realizes what should be preferred in the ever changing situations of life, never faces failures and disappointments.

Life would be perfect if: Mondays were fun, junk food was healthy, drama didn't exist, and goodbyes were only until tomorrow.