Quotes About Desires

It is clear to me that people often want incompatible things. They want danger and excitement on the one hand, and safety and security on the other, and often simultaneously. Contradictory desires mean that life can never be wholly satisfying or without frustration.

For many of us, especially women, the gap between what we want or need and what our society expects of us is wide indeed, and we spend out lives trying to negotiate it. Trying to balance work and family, responsibilities and desires, all that stuff. It is not easy.

I've tried to recognize my wife's individuality, her personality, her desires, her background, her ambitions.

As the world's getting filled with temptations, we're getting a bit frivolous and a bit fickle.

Trying to project our expectations and our desires onto the sci-fi being written in China now isn't terribly helpful.

These items ranged from an old gent who wanted a monthly fishing magazine to a brash old lady who requested a particular brand of toilet paper because, The stuff they give you in here leaves your arsehole as red as a radish. After

The desires of the heart...are as crooked as a corkscrew.

Without realizing it, most people become deadened to their emotions. Early in their lives they turn their backs on themselves, their real desires and wants, and substitute self-nourishing habits and fantasies that only serve to deaden them.

When children are taught that personal wants and desires are selfish, there is a resultant guilt reaction and movement toward a state of selflessness. However, our wants and desires make up a major part of our identity. When they are suppressed, we don't know who we are, and without a sense of self, we lose compassion for others (Firestone, 1987b, 1997a).

realizing it, most people become deadened to their emotions. Early in their lives they turn their backs on themselves, their real desires and wants, and substitute self-nourishing habits and fantasies that only serve to deaden them. They

If God gave us everything we asked for, we'd be in chaos.

Recognizing abundance rather than scarcity undermines an economy that thrives by creating unmet desires. Gratitude cultivates an ethic of fullness, but the economy needs emptiness.

In a consumer society, contentment is a radical proposition. Recognizing abundance rather than scarcity undermines an economy that thrives by creating unmet desires. Gratitude cultivates an ethic of fullness, but the economy needs emptiness.

When I ask my elders about the ways our people lived in order to keep the world whole and healthy, I hear the mandate to take only what you need. But we human people, descendants of Nanabozho, struggle, as he did, with self-restraint. The dictum to take only what you need leaves a lot of room for interpretation when our needs get so tangled with our wants.

Recognizing abundance rather than scarcity undermines an economy that thrives by creating unmet desires.

In a consumer society, contentment is a radical proposition. Recognizing abundance rather than scarcity undermines an economy that thrives by creating unmet desires. Gratitude cultivates an ethic of fullness

People didn't fall in love with other people. They fell in love with how other people made them feel about themselves. And so, it was easy to get someone to love you—if you knew how they wanted to feel.

What we think of as our "gut instincts" are really a very complex mosaic of past experiences, deep-seated hopes, fears, desires.

The things a man will wish for are harder to leave behind than all his wants...

CASTLES IN THE AIR Laurie

Crecemos con el poderoso mensaje de nuestros progenitores calentándonos la cabeza y a menudo terminamos creyendo que sus deseos son nuestros deseos y que somos resposables de sus carencias

Madurez: atisbo de entendimiento del mundo y de uno mismo, intuición del equilibrio de las cosas. Acercamiento entre la razón y el corazón. Conocimiento de los propios deseos y los propios miedos.

You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?

He allowed the doors of his mind to burst open and me to read what lay within. It was so clear that I wonder all those present did not read it. The passions and unwise desires blazoned in fiery letters.