Quotes About Desires

When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex.

So long as the desires of freedom, peace, and to know stuff exists it will eventually beget drama.

We [poets] set men free from their desires.

Un sociólogo norteamericano dijo hace más de treinta años que la propaganda era una formidable vendedora de sueños, pero resulta que yo no quiero que me vendan sueños ajenos, si no sencillamente que se cumplan los míos.

Lo cierto es que la vida -¡qué indecente resulta nombrarla así, como si fuera una divinidad, como si encerrase una esotérica significación y no fuera lo que todos sabemos que es: una repetición, una aburrida repetición de dilemas, de rostros, de deseos!-, lo cierto es que la vida desde el principio me sacó ventajas y yo no he podido ni podré jamás recuperar el terreno perdido...

Hay fantasías que me prometi y desgraciadamente no he cumplido y otras que me cumplí sin prometérmelas

La literatura quizá hace a los seres humanos más aptos para la infelicidad, porque despierta unos apetitos y deseos que no pueden cumplirse, pero enriquece la sensibilidad de las personas y las da una comprensión mayor del mundo. Los hace…sentir mucho más aptos para la libertad.

You can leave the Bible on your bedside table untouched. You can ignore desires, dreams, doors, promptings and people. But you can't ignore pain, can you?

Psalm 37:4: "Delight yourself in the LORD;8 and He will give you the desires of your heart.

God speaks to us through dreams, desires, promptings, impressions, and ideas.

We don't know what we want. We've never defined our goals or values or passions, so we're out of touch with our hearts' desires. And our growing responsibilities have numbed us to the possibilities around us and the passions within us.

There is a yearning that is as spiritual as it is sensual. Even when it degenerates into addiction, there is something salvageable from the original impulse that can only be described as sacred. Something in the person (dare we call it a soul?) wants to be free, and it seeks its freedom any way it can. ... There is a drive for transcendence that is implicit in even the most sensual of desires.

Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world. The world is passing away, and also its lusts;

What customers say they want is often different from what they actually want.

The idea of whole brain emulation - which was, in effect, the liberation from matter, from the physical world - seemed to me an extreme example of the way in which science, or the belief in scientific progress, was replacing religion as the vector of deep cultural desires and delusions.

So live here, Martel. Love life like it is a miracle every day, every moment, and dream in a way that helps others, and the Divine will hear you and you will walk through battles untouched and have anything your heart desires.

Gheorghe returned his hand to his heart. "So live here, Martel. Love life like it is a miracle every day, every moment, and dream in a way that helps others, and the Divine will hear you and you will walk through battles untouched and have anything your heart desires.

Your dreams are the product of your longings, a portrait of your potential, and a promise of your future.

Wishes are recollections coming from the future.

Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you're telling the story of a future

Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future.

We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.

Create content that satisfies your uber goals and desires.

You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys.