Quotes About Desires

A part is not just a temporary emotional state or habitual thought pattern. Instead, it is a discrete and autonomous mental system that has an idiosyncratic range of emotion, style of expression, set of abilities, desires, and view of the world. In other words, it is as if we each contain a society of people, each of whom is at a different age and has different interests, talents, and temperaments. In

When you have what you want (inner peace), you are less distracted by your wants, needs, desires, and concerns. It's thus easier to concentrate, focus, achieve your goals, and to give back to others.

We take simple preferences and turn them into conditions for our own happiness.

It doesn't seem to make any difference how much we have; we just keep expanding our list of desires

Ce n'est pas un des miens non plus, a dit Bancroft un peu trop vite. J'ai choisi cet exemple au hasard. Il y a des choses, des désirs en chacun de nous qu'il vaut mieux étouffer. Ou au moins, qu'il est impossible d'exprimer dans un contexte civilisé.

Yet a personal God can become a grave liability. He can be a mere idol carved in our own image, a projection of our limited needs. fears and desires. We can assume that he loves what we love and hates what we hate, endorsing our prejudices instead of compelling us to transcend them.

Myths are universal and timeless stories that reflect and shape our lives – they explore our desires, our fears, our longings, and provide narratives that remind us what it means to be human.

But I knew that, both in fairyland and the real world, too, wishes were a slipperier things.

Suddenly, quite miraculously, you are a grown-up beautiful woman. You look so much like your mother, but you are still uniquely you. You have thoughts I will never know. Desires I will never understand. Friends I will never meet. Passions I will never share. You have a life. You have an entire world in front of you.

To make the society [which of course consists of non-workers] happy and people easier under the meanest circumstances, it is requisite that great numbers of them should be ignorant as well as poor; knowledge both enlarges and multiplies our desires, and the fewer things a man wishes for, the more easily his necessities may be supplied. [3] What Mandeville

While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.

Men are idol factories.

The Metropolis strives to reach a mythical point where the world is completely fabricated by man, so that it absolutely coincides with his desires.

Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.

The desires of man increase with his acquisitions.

The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.

Every man has obligations which belong to his station. Duties extend beyond obligations, and direct the affections, desires, and intentions, as well as the actions.

WEALTH AND HOW TO ACHIEVE IT: Let us define the wealthy man as he who has everything he desires. How to reach that happy condition? Two ways

Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.

We must know the measure of a man's desires before we can sound the depth of his regrets.

A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.

Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality.

Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes.

The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally tobe nothing else but the production and the setting up of another.