Quotes About Desires

Peace and happiness are our eternal desires.

We might like to think of ourselves as autonomous beings who get to decide who we are going to be, but we are likely much more malleable than we think. We are often defined by the structure that keeps us captive. In some ways our desires are so socially constructed that they can't rightfully be called our own.

After Duras wrote Lol Stein, she made a curious remark - she said that she gave herself permission to speak 'in a sense totally alien to women'. I know what she means. It is so hard to claim our desires and so much more relaxing to mock them.

It occurred to me that both Maria and I were on the run in the twenty-first century, just like George Sand whose name was also Amantine was on the run in the nineteenth century, and Maria whose name was also Zama was looking for somewhere to recover and rest in the twentieth. We were on the run from the lies concealed in the language of politics from myths about our character and our purpose in life. We were on the run from our own desires too probably, whatever they were.

Your faith is like putty. How easily you mold it to your own desires.

If wishes were horses, all men would ride,

I will release this list of my desires and surrender it to the womb of creation, trusting that when things don't seem to go my way, there is a reason, and that the cosmic plan has designs for me much grander than even those that I have conceived.

If you are full and complete in yourself, if you lack nothing, if your desires come and go easily, you will always be free. In this freedom there is total joy. You cannot be hurt, not in your true self.

Los deseos son lo que impulsa la vida hacia la plenitud. Aquello que al principio solo esperas, algún día lo sabrás.

Success in life could be defined as the continued expansion of happiness and the progressive realization of worthy goals. Success is the ability to fulfill your desires with effortless ease. And

Stillness is the first requirement for manifesting your desires, because in stillness lies your connection to the field of pure potentiality that can orchestrate an infinity of details for you.

My thoughts are my trollops.

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

sii te stesso! il coraggio di rispettare se stessi prima di chiunque altro! rispetto di sé è il precursore di coraggio. la maggior parte delle persone si rendono conto ben presto che uno dei maggiori rimpianti della vita sta cedendo ai desideri degli altri, invece di fare quello che il loro cuore desidera di più, e non essere se stessi. così essere se stessi, e non sarai mai rimpianto.

To me, a Horse symbolizes top five attributes that a man constantly desires: Confidence, Determination, Potency, Power and Strength.

There is no use if knowledge grows while desires multiply. It makes one a hero in words and a zero in action.

human desires are the main cause of suffering

The world we see is a painting colored by our fears and desires.

The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.

As you commit your life to follow the Lord, He begins to plant His desires in your heart, then guides you according to His plan

The human creature is so astonishing, but count on it before anything else to be just that-a creature. A laughing animal, a dangerous one, a clever one, a scared one, but always acting for a reason-a motive that will move the beast towards its desires.

Usually the things we think we need become the very things we need a break from.

Lastly, physical freedom includes being comfortable with our physical desires, appetites, and changes that come with age. This means we don't beat ourselves up for feeling hungry, or how our skin or movements change with age, but embrace them as part of the story of our self and body in the world," wrote McBride.12

If you allow yourself to make all the money you need to flourish and live out your desires, it does not mean you are, or will become, a greedy, selfish, Earth-ruining bastard.