Quotes About Desires

If something makes you happy you should just enjoy it and embrace it, but I've got a whole list of things that make me happy and I fought like hell not to enjoy them, not to want them, not to do them, because they didn't match who I thought I was, or who I thought I should be.

I've lived the life I wanted in my thirties, my forties, my fifties - they're all different lives, with different desires, which you never realize when you're young.

It is hard to fight with one's heart's desires; whatever it wishes to get, it purchases at the cost of the soul.

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

If there were dreams to sell, Merry and sad to tell, And the crier rung his bell, What would you buy?

Advertising reaches out to touch the fantasy part of people's lives. And you know, most people's fantasies are pretty sad.

In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires.

My dreams, my desires, and my goals make me smile.

Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness.

I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?

As Pierre Bourdieu signalled as long as two decades ago, coercion has by and large been replaced by stimulation, the once obligatory patterns of conduct by seduction, the policing of behaviour by PR and advertising, and normative regulation by the arousal of new needs and desires.

Primero, el destino final de todos los productos en venta es el de ser consumidos por compradores. Segundo, los compradores desearán comprar bienes de consumo si y sólo si ese consumo promete la gratificación de sus deseos. Tercero, el precio que el cliente potencial en busca de gratificación está dispuesto a pagar por los productos en oferta dependerá de la credibilidad de esa promesa y de la intensidad de esos deseos.

La función de la cultura no consiste en satisfacer necesidades existentes sino en crear necesidades nuevas, mientras

From the start and to this very day, modernity was about forcing nature to serve obediently human needs, ambitions and desires –

When we know what we want, and see that our desires authentically reflect who and what we are, our self-esteem improves, and we find ourselves enjoying truly human interactions. The more effortlessly secure we are in being ourselves, the more we can afford to open up to others, and the more we can naturally act with generosity and magnanimity.

A longing for things material is an instrument by which one may approach the love of God; even through coarse desires one may come to love the Creator.

of their passions in the same object at that particular time.

May God bless you and give you what you need because what you want will get you in trouble." Figliolo blessed himself. "The Cabrellis have always been fighters. You'll be all right.

May God bless you and give you what you need because what you want will get you in trouble.

radiant dreams are passing in the night, the memories throb with sorrow, joy with pain . . . it is pain to dream and see desires slip through the arms, a vision lost for ever winging down the moving drifts of sleep.

new techniques of mass persuasion. "We must shift America from a needs to desires culture," Mazur said. "People must be trained to desire, to want new things, even before the old have been entirely consumed. We must shape a new mentality. Man's desires must overshadow his needs.

But fantasies are often the best thing we can make of our multiple and contradictory wishes; they allow us to inhabit one reality without destroying the other. Fantasizing spares those we care about from the full irresponsibility and scary strangeness of our urges.

Books should be full of stuff you could never say to people in public.

We could not be fulfilled if we weren't inauthentic some of the time—inauthentic, that is, in relation to such things as our passing desires to throttle our children, poison our spouse, or end our marriage over a dispute about changing a lightbulb.