Quotes About Desires

LOVE and LOVER live in Eternity. Other desires are substitutes for that way of being.

All the powers of soul and body,memory, understanding, and will, interior and exterior senses, thedesires of spirit and of sense, all workin and by love.

The things we love tell us who we are.

In short, liturgies make us certain kinds of people, and what defines us is what we love.

If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses

Sometimes...it is better if wishes don't come true. Nothing is truly free, and all dreams have a price.

Dogs are born knowing exactly what they want to do: eat, scratch, roll in disgusting stuff, sniff and squabble with other dogs, roam, sleep, have sex. Little of this is what we want them to do, of course. We ask them to sit, stay, smell peasant, practice abstinence, and be accommodating.

Dreams may well be the vehicle of wishes, but the wishes at stake are the insatiable human desires to exceed the isolating and privatizing confines of the self.

Happiness comes from within, and it cannot be found by making the world conform to your desires.

I believe the Scottish philosopher David Hume was closer to the truth than was Plato when he said, "Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.

David Hume, who wrote in 1739 that "reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.

We - society- inflict all sorts of injuries on people and then blame them for having scars. We sexualize and exploit and condemn them for being the living representations of our own desires. We use them and then blame them for being used

people don't always understand their own true desires and feelings, and, even if they do, they might not give a straight answer.

In my forties, I felt the attenuation of my ambition." Meaning what? "It means that the worldly ambitions that I might have had, I increasingly see as distractions from the life I really want to live.

The alternative to morality is violence. Violence is the attempt to satisfy my desires at the cost of yours.

The consumer society, directed at making us happy, achieves the opposite. It encourages us to spend money we do not have, to buy things we do not need, for the sake of a happiness that will not last.

In The Book of Joe by Jonathan Tropper, Wayne is talking to Joe about "days that matter". Wayne says, "It's simple really. We were doing what we wanted to do, instead of what we expected ourselves to do.

en el terreno de los afectos la voluntad no mandaba.

If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

If you wish to make Pythocles wealthy, don't give him more money; rather, reduce his desires.

If you want to make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

The cry of the flesh bids us escape from hunger, thirst, and cold; for he who is free of these and expects to remain so might live in happiness even with Zeus.

If you want to make someone happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.