Quotes About Desires

can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. Sylvia Plath

Basically it says that the world is what we recognize in our own will. Humans are ruled by their basic desires and this leads to suffering and pain, because our desires make us crave things from the world but the world is nothing but representation. Because those same cravings shape what we see. We end up feeding from ourselves, until we go mad. And end up in here.

We look for happiness outside ourselves when it is basically an inner state of being. If it were an exterior condition, it would be forever beyond our reach. Our desires are boundless and our control over the world is limited, temporary, and, more often than not, illusory. We forge bonds of friendship

All empires fall, eventually." "But why? It's not for lack of power. In fact, it seems to be the opposite. Their power lulls them into comfort. They become undisciplined. Those who had to earn power are replaced by those who have known nothing else. Who have no comprehension of the need to rise above base desires.["]

In short, the critic is not an owner, because he still struggles with ideas as with powerful strangers, as the Christian is not the owner of his "bad desires" as long as he has to fight them; for the one who battles against vice, vice exists.

?etrdeset mi je godina, ružno doba: ?ovjek je još mlad da bi imao želja a ve? star da ih ostvaruje.

Few men ever wonder such things. They are the center of the world, after all. But women are not so different in what they want. They are used to hiding their desires and dissembling, that is all. No woman is ever quite as she appears.

As our options expand, so do our desires - and unmet desires in particular.

I do not believe that the desires of young boys cause catastrophic events. The actions of humans do.

There's nothing to took forward to any more if you don't have dreams," he said. "Because dreams are goals and John might have run out of goals. So he died.

Kelipah, or "shell," is the symbol frequently used in Kabbalah to denote "evil" and the source of sensual desires in human nature. See Schochet, Mystical

En el fondo todos somos esclavos de algo. Nadie escapa a la esclavitud. Tanto los de aquí adentro (en la carcel) como los de fuera. Y cuando la veía algo mustia: - No irás a decirme que tú cuando te creías libre no te sentías esclava de tu trabajo, de tus miedos, de tus pasiones e incluso de tus ganas de hacer las cosas con la mayor perfección. Pero Lucía no acertaba a comprenderla.

Há mulheres que procuram um homem que lhes abra o mundo. Outras buscam um que as tire do mundo. A maior parte, porém, acaba se unindo a alguém que lhes tira o mundo.

women have emotional needs, men have egotistical needs.

The slave is held most securely when he is held by the chains of his own will and of his own fears, and when he is locked down by his own slavish desires for a comfortable life.

it is how a person goes about quenching his desires or living with them unrequited that the readers get a glimpse of his true character.

Criminals have the same aspirations as everyone else. That's why they become criminals.

Wishes cannot be summoned up or kept away at will. They come from deeper within us than good or bad intentions. And they spring up unannounced.

Happy is the man whose wants are few. The fewer the wants, the happier the person. One

The only way for government to express the needs and desires of Americans is if Americans speak up and get involved.

the world can fascinate us so much as being near to God.… You cannot buy or wear or sell except that which is pleasing to the Lord. Jesus becomes Lord over your wants and desires. You love that which God loves and hate that which God hates…. If you can be fascinated

All I ever wanted, all I ever dreamed of, Everything I hoped, and all the things I prayed for Couldn't hold a candle to what I've been given, I've been given what I need.

All I ever wanted...couldn t hold a candle to what I ve been given.

The rule of law, properly speaking, is an exercise of authority in which the power of the subjects of that authority to seek and to obtain the satisfaction of their desires is qualified by the obligation to subscribe to certain moral-procedural conditions while leaving them to choose prudentially for themselves the substantive actions and utterances in which to seek such satisfactions.