Quotes About Desires

Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

Passions are the gales of life.

Stress appears in your life because you have a rigid view of 'This is the way the world should be,' and the Universe pays scant regard to your desires. And you refuse to accept this.

To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering.

The disturbers of our happiness, in this world, are our desires, our griefs, and our fears.

Okuyucunun "Genç k?z Emerson'u seviyor" diye bir sonuca varmas? için her ÅŸey aç?kça ortada. EÄŸer okuyucu Lucy'nin yerinde olsayd?, durum bu kadar aç?k olmayacakt?. Hayat? yaÅŸad?ktan sonra yazmak kolayd?r, ama bizzat yaÅŸamak sersemleticidir ve arzular?m?z? gözden gizleyecek "sinir bozukluÄŸu" veya herhangi bir baÅŸka bahaneyi sevinçle kar??lar?z.

The best way to control a man is to do so without his awareness that he is being controlled, and the best way to do that is through the systematic manipulation of passions, because man tends to identify his passions as his own. In defending them, he defends his "freedom", which he usually sees as the unfettered ability to fulfill his desires, without, for the most part, understanding how easy it is to manipulate those passions from without.

if we want to avoid suffering, we must start with ourselves, because all suffering comes from our own desires.

Beautiful conventions received them--while beyond the barrier Maurice wandered, the wrong words on his lips, the wrong desires in his heart, and his arms full of air.

It matter so little to the majority of living beings what the minority, that calls itself human, desires or decides.

M]en were not gods after all, but as human and clumsy as girls; even men might suffer from unexplained desires, and need help... the weakness of men was a truth unfamiliar, but she had surmised it at Florence.

As there has been given, dreams are of different natures, and have their inception from influences either in the body, in the mind, or from the realm of activity without the body through the desires and purposes of the soul itself.

The entity may in the present find a great joy; as well as an outlet for the determining forces or wishes or desires—that are, like thoughts, things; that may grow to be either miracles—those things through which miracles may come into the experience of self and those with whom the associations may be had—or become stumbling-stones to self and as mountains in the pathway of those whom the entity may contact.

The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires

hay algo dentro de mí que me grita que no, que no estoy dispuesta a eso de las disyuntivas y las renuncias, porque no quiero esa libertad en la que pierdo a uno de los dos hombres de los que vivo enamorada, y no me interesa quedar como una nena caprichosa, y ya sé que la madurez es precisamente sustraernos a la inmediatez de los deseos y la dictadura de los impulsos, pero entonces me temo que nunca seré una mujer madura.

We can have wilderness without freedom; we can have wilderness without human life at all, but we cannot have freedom without wilderness, we cannot have freedom without leagues of open space beyond the cities, where boys and girls, men and women, can live at least part of their lives under no control but their own desires and abilities, free from any and all direct administration by their fellow men.

Reason is and ought to be, as Hume said, the slave of the passions.

If wishes and buts were clusters of nuts, we'd all have a bowl of granola.

Better to live alone; with a fool there is no companionship. With few desires live alone and do no evil, like an elephant in the forest roaming at will.

Dost thou, therefore, in the name of this Child, renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world, with all covetous desires of the same, and the sinful desires of the flesh, so that thou wilt not follow, nor be led by them?

So, we were born happy. We lost it. We were born with the gift of life. We lost it. We've got to rediscover it. Why did we lose it? Because we were working actively. They taught us to work actively, to make ourselves miserable. How did they do that? By teaching us to become attached. By teaching us to have desires so intense that we would refuse to be happy unless they were fulfilled.

was "to try always to master myself rather than fortune, and change my desires rather than the order of the world.

Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.

The things that have really gotten confusing to me is how you balance the desires of your publishers to produce things on a schedule, and people are always sort of giving you ideas on what you should follow up with or how you should proceed next and things like that.