Quotes About Desires

I'm well aware of the people's wishes.

I am not unaware of the saying that more tears have been shed over wishes granted than wishes denied.

What emotions would we experience if we weren't working ourselves to death? What wishes drive us? What fantasies hitch themselves to our continual busyness? Only when we step away from our frenzy can we know.

When I was a little kid, I used to spend a lot of time thinking about what I'd wish for if a magic fairy gave me three wishes. First, I wanted to be loved. Then, I wanted to be beautiful. And, finally, I'd wish for a million more wishes.

I keep my wishes and dreams secret, like a child.

If our dreams are sincere desires to achieve, not mere pipe-dreams, there is something deep within ourselves which comes out to meet them and helps to make them realities.

By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

We experience happiness as a series of pleasing moments. They come and go like clouds, unpredictable, fleeting, and without responsibility to our desires. Through honest self-work, reflection, and meditation, we begin to string more of these moments together, creating a web-like design of happiness that drapes around our lives.

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement!

The love of Christ reaches to the very depths of earthly misery and woe, or it would not meet the case of the veriest sinner. It also reaches to the throne of the eternal, or man could not he lifted from his degraded condition, and our necessities would not be met, our desires would be unsatisfied.

Women have everything they want, and they've never been so unhappy.

People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.

The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Anyone who has a dog knows that they have some very deep thoughts, that they have moods and emotions, they get their feelings hurt. It's not a far reach to give them opinions and values and long-term desires.

Rights have become what the political sovereign or ephemeral master decides to dispense and whatever gratifies the undisciplined cravings and desires of the individual.

selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Hayattan ayr?lmak istemeyiz, çünkü tatmin edilmemi? birçok arzular?m?z vard?r.

you look at your child with intelligence, do you see that to get him everything that he asks for is sheer stupidity?

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.