Quotes About Desires

Once, in a spasm of sappiness, you asked Q-Jo if she thought your dreams would ever come true. 'You aren't talking about dreams,' she corrected you, 'you're referring to your pathetic bourgeoisie ambitions. Dreams don't come true. Dreams are true.

By identifying with our desires and taking them too seriously, we not only increase our susceptibility to disappointment, we actually create a climate inhospitable to the free and easy fulfillment of those desires.

You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires.

We have churches filled with people who can win Bible trivia contests but who don't know Him. I am afraid that some of us have been sidetracked or entangled by everything from prosperity to poverty, and we've become such an ingrown society of the self-righteous that our desires and our wants and those

Eu não quero mais bênçãos, quero Aquele que abençoa. Não quero mais dons, quero Aquele que os concede.

In Tar Baby , the classic concept of the individual with a solid, coherent identity is eschewed for a model of identity which sees the individual as a kaleidoscope of heterogeneous impulses and desires, constructed from multiple forms of interaction with the world as a play of difference that cannot be completely comprehended.

As a writer reading, I came to realize the obvious: the subject of the dream is the dreamer. The fabrication of an Africanist persona is reflexive; an extraordinary meditation on the self; a powerful exploration of the fears and desires that reside in the writerly conscious. It is an astonishing revelation of longing, of terror, of perplexity, of shame, of magnanimity. It requires hard work not to see this.

We need an objective standard that isn't tied to our emotions, thoughts, or desires.

What do I really want for myself? What do I really want for others? What do I really want for the relationship?

Trust, faith,good, bad... none of it matters. All you ever do is what you have to do. Follow your disires, fulfill your needs, escape from pain. That's all there is to it.

We are different from our animal ancestors in that we are not content to merely survive, but have been incredibly busy making up new itches that we have to scratch, creating new desires we've never had before. This discontent is the trigger for our ingenuity and growth.

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

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

Passions have made mortals of us men. If men were not slaves of passion, they would have been Gods, each one.

We all have two lives, Counselor: the one we want and the one we learn to live with. I'm content with both of mine.

I can't run around falling in love with fantasies.

We live in a culture that desires intimacy without responsibility and pleasure without commitment.

So, here we are, all of us poor bewildered darlings, wandering adrift in a universe too big and too complex for us, clasping and ricochetting off other people too different and too perplexing for us, and seeking to satisfy myriad, shifting, vague needs and desires, both mean and exalted. And sometimes we mesh. Don't we? - Attributed to James Flynn, Ph.D.

Look, we all have wishes; granted. But who has wishes granted?

What do women want?" Sigmund Freud cried. Books and cats are a good start.

The golden rule of business is supply and demand. I venture to say that this is also the rule of happiness. When a balance is achieved between our desires and another's willingness to satisfy them, the result is a sympathetic, mutually rewarding relationship. (...) a thriving economy of love.' - character Mike Lambeth

I have no beliefs," said her mother. "Only hopes.

Things — identifiable objects, products, goals with clear labels and price tags, men you've known for five minutes — make such a handy repository for hungers, such an easy mask for other desires, and such a ready cure for the feelings of edgy discontent that emerge when other desires are either thwarted or unnamed.

every unpleasant feeling we have has an unconscious motivation.