Quotes About Desires

If you don't know how you feel, you won't know what you want.

How few are our real wants! and how easy is it to satisfy them! Our imaginary ones are boundless and insatiable.

To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.

Elections have a way of cooling passions, especially when voters get what they want.

Profiles mean nothing. You could say, 'I want this,' but then it's not out there.

The natural wants are few, and easily gratified: it is only those which are artificial that perplex us by their multiplicity.

Our desires teach us who we are and who we want to become. Our desires shape our stories.

In Heaven, you're going to get just about whatever you want. Heaven's the place where all your heart's desires will be fulfilled - if they're good ones. Put in your order now!

Heaven is a place where you can get all you want of whatever you like. Heaven is not the end: it's only the beginning.

We are attracted to people who have traits we want in ourselves, and usually we are unattracted to people with traits that we share.

Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed, happy or miserable.

Your mind is filled with thoughts and desires. Your moods shift constantly. You are not sure what it is you want, it changes from moment to moment; there is little or no continuity in your life.

All that is worshipped is but a reflection of the worshipper. A single god, no matter how benign, is tortured into a multitude of masks, each shaped by the secret desires, hungers, fears and joys of the individual mortal, who but plays a game of obsequious approbation.

The man who never smiles Drags his nets through the deep And we are gathered To gape in the drowning air Beneath the buffeting sound Of his dreaded voice Speaking of salvation In the repast of justice done And fed well on the laden table Heaped with noble desires He tells us all this to hone the edge Of his eternal mercy Slicing our bellies open One by one. In the Kingdom of Meaning Well

Is not the mind a wondrous world? That thoughts and aspirations can cavort with such glee? That desires can spool out into such wild mess as to tangle every sense, and confound the spirit in a welter of delicious indulgence! Reality stands no chance against such inner creations.

Advertisers use sophisticated psychological methods to manipulate our desires, thoughts, and behaviors. The goal is to create a need where none previously existed, or to amplify a need.

Google is] an omnivorous collector of information, a hyperencyclopedic vault of human knowledge, an unerring auctioneer, an eerily skilful student of languages, behaviour, and desires.

The foundation of individual rights is the assumption that people have wants and needs and are authorities on what those wants and needs are. If people's stated desires were just some kind of erasable inscription or reprogrammable brainwashing, any atrocity could be justified.

Only your death can bring back the knowledge of the past. Your soul must be snuffed out like an exploding sun. Run away from it, Shemyaza. Disappear into the world. Become Peveral Othman again. It is what you really want. You're not a saviour, you never wanted to be. Others have shaped you in the image of their desires.

Owen's eyes, when he turned his face, were guarded. He had no hunger, particularly, but a certain curiosity. Othman could see ideas and desires swimming unseen beneath the surface of Owen's conscious mind. These would have to be brought out.

Now, I must have truly entered the soulscape, in body and mind, the place where all dreams, nightmares and desires live out their shadow life.

My dreams had to be His dreams, the ones He placed in my heart. They couldn't be the ones I thought I should have, or needed for the purpose of making other people like me.

There were disappointments. Things you couldn't know you had wanted, or even things you were quite certain you hadn't wanted, but still, as you discovered, missed some aspect of.

If you have lost touch with your dreams and desires, a good way to retrieve them is to remember what you dreamed of doing and being as a kid.