Quotes About Desires

Teenage boys were just a loose aggregation of appetites.

interesting how much insight you could have into your own pathologies, and how little impact the insight would have on your underlying needs. Or on your behavior.

The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions

Hasta que no hayamos elegido nuestras motivaciones, no podemos elegir vivir nuestra vida de verdad. Todo es fruto de los motivos y de la motivación, que constituyen las raíces de nuestros deseos más profundos.

Coherence suggests that there is harmony, unity, and integrity between your vision and mission, your roles and goals, your priorities and plans, and your desires and discipline.

The observers of the time were detecting a phenomenon that we now largely take for granted: that mass behavior can often diverge strikingly from the desires of the individuals that make up the mass.

Computation has finally demystified mentalistic terms. Beliefs are inscriptions in memory, desires are goal inscriptions, thinking is computation, perceptions are inscriptions triggered by sensors, trying is executing operations triggered by a goal.

At the same time, evolution guarantees that these desires will work at cross-purposes with each other and with those of other people.9 Much of what we call wisdom consists in balancing the conflicting desires within ourselves, and much of what we call morality and politics consists in balancing the conflicting desires among people.

We live in an era of social science, and have become accustomed to understanding the social world in terms of "forces," "pressures," "processes," and "developments." It is easy to forget that those "forces" are statistical summaries of the deeds of millions of men and women who act on their beliefs in pursuit of their desires. The

Much of what we call wisdom consists in balancing the conflicting desires within ourselves, and much of what we call morality and politics consists in balancing the conflicting desires among people.

the theory of the hedonic treadmill

Men fantasize about copulating with bodies; women fantasize about making love to people.

I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.

There hath not one tear dropped from thy tender eye against thy lusts, the love of this world, or for more communion with Jesus Christ, but as it is now in the bottle of God.

The key to loving how you live is in knowing what it is you truly love.

I love rains which carry desires to oceans.

As you spend time in God's Word and understand his love, the Holy Spirit will create new desires within you to love and serve others like never before.

Most of your desires are not really about yourself. You just picked them up from your social surroundings.

New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.

It is very natural for a young friend and a young lover to think the persons they love have nothing to do but to please them.

Love properly understood is God—the font of all creation and the ultimate goal of all desires; God properly understood is love.

There is no surer evidence of an unconverted state than to have the things of the world uppermost in our aim, love, and estimation.

And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love')

Love is not about chasing someone; it's not about being chased or being the one chasing. It's about chasing after dreams and if in that pursuit someone runs parallel to you, that is love.