Quotes About Desires

I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

Once upon a time, it used to require a sacrifice to buy something. you saved up, you gave up thing you might want just so you could put enough money aside to purchase something big or long-lasting or vital. Now, people tend to think the sacrifices is not buying.

Man's thoughts and actions are compensatory substitutes for desires which he has been obliged to suppress.

Musical myths speak with authority about our society, its fragility, its strengths, its desires, and its limits. Music becomes a wise version of the utopian messenger, pleasing us with his account of an ideal land but also warning us, in his tones, of all the dangers.

Language is a purely human and non-instinctive method of communicating ideas, emotions, and desires by means of a system of voluntarily produced symbols.

Human rulers get poisoned or decapitated or simply voted out of office all the time, as our set of personal desires, our chimpanzee DNA, rears its individualistic head.

A human naturally requires Money, Shelter, and Sex for living without frustration, anger, and rage. Since as others, I realize it as well; however, I feel that as a need, not as my weakness; thus, it protects from every evil of this world.

Ambition to overcome own desires is the best perception; whereas, to do with others is the worst conception.

Before focusing on whatever process, realize the surroundings and people since such awareness educates and results in precisely as your desires.

Flirting means you are punishing and hurting yourself with your inner negative feelings and desires.

One can buy everything in its life; however, one cannot buy dreams and love that one carries in heartbeats.

One's self is the basis of everything. Every action is a manifestation of the self. A person who doesn't know himself can do nothing for others." "What I meant—I wasn't acting to satisfy my own desires." "Shut up! Don't you see you're barely grown? There's nothing more frightening than a half-baked do-gooder who knows nothing of the world but takes it upon himself to tell the world what's good for it.

What you do, what you own, what you plan, what you believe, what you think you are, what you want, and so much more are all the result of beliefs and values you've been trained to have, to be, and to want. Some of this is simply enculturation, but when it takes on the intent of deliberate manipulation, then enculturation per se is an inadequate term.

Acaso mantenía a raya mis sentimientos porque me espantaba la violencia con la que en mi fuero íntimo quería las cosas, a las personas, los elogios, los triunfos?

S]ince distance imposed the physical impossibility of intervening directly in their lives, satisfying their desires or whims became a mixture of rarefied or irresponsible gestures, every request seemed light, every task that had to do with them an affectionate habit. I felt miraculously unfettered, as if a difficult job, finally brought to completion, no longer weighed me down

Imagine that the lines an actress reads are a river that runs calmly along the surface of the earth. Then imagine that the actress are the earth, and that under the earth is another river, a wilder one whose current leaps in the opposite direction, whose roar is muted. Every time the actress speaks her lines, she must offer a glimpse of the river that runs beneath: the mysterious churn of her consciousness, the lawlessness of a person's doubts or desires.

Pero como en los tiempos más recientes, las mujeres no suelen ahorrar y, como toda mala pagadora, tiene más deseos que dinero; al hombre le falta mucho por aguantar; allá donde mira encuentra deudas. Lo que puede reunir, ella lo gasta, en su cuerpo o en su amante; y también come mejor y bebe más con el miserable ejército de galanteadores. Esto aumenta en mí el ansia de oro: soy masculino, soy el afán.

The attraction of an exotic presence that was intensely carnal and at the same time as intangible as a promise was contained not in her attitude or words but in her very presence, the shape of her face, the color of her hair and eyes, the timbre of her voice, and something else not in her, the promise of so many unfulfilled and often unformed desires in him, roused by her proximity as if by a clap of hands or a voice revealing the dimension of a great area of darkness.

A person is so helpless in the hands of own luck in life that even dream, desires and demands are also decided by his/her destiny.

Common people are asked as what they want in the budget as if they get every year only what they want

There is always someone as Invisible Power peeping inside every person's mind as what he or she is seeking.

There is nothing a person can do of his/her own because even what everyone dreams or desires is also decided by their respective destiny.

the luxuries of civilization satisfy only those wants which they themselves create.