Quotes About Desires

Happy the man who lives at home, making it his business to regulate his desires.

In the human heart there is a perpetual generation of passions; so that the ruin of one is almost always the foundation of another.

Age is a tyrant who forbids at the penalty of life all the pleasures of youth.

All passions make us commit some faults, love alone makes us ridiculous.

For years her emotions lay behind a wall she had constructed: the yearnings, the desires, the disappointment, and the pain.

Tal vez todos queramos, pero algunos somos dueños de nuestros deseos, mientras que otros son esclavos...

Dorintele sunt falsuri. Speranta e adevarata. Speranta isi face propria magie.

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.

Who are you? Are you in touch with all of your darkest fantasies? Have you created a life for yourself where you can experience them? I have. I am fucking crazy. But I am free.

The wishes of our hearts are weapons that can be used against us.

What do you want?" "Clothes mostly, some weapons." Sebastian shook his head." Too dangerous. We need to get in and out fast. Only emergency items." "My favourite jacket is a emergency item," Jace said. It was so much like hearing him talk to Alec, to any of his friends. "Much like myself, it is both snuggly and fashionable.

Lord Montgomery considers nothing but his own desires," he said in a gravelly voice. "I'll tell you something else. Lord Montgomery has a very large estate...and pretty extensive grounds, too." Isabelle giggled, and Simon felt the bed shake under them. "Okay, I didn't expect you to get quite so into this." "Lord Montgomery always surpasses expectations.

If wishes were horses, we'd be up to our eyeballs in sh*t.

Clean up a pigsty," she commented one evening, "and if the creatures in it still have pig-minds and pig-desires, soon it will be the same old pigsty again.

Actually, the creative law of prosperity concerns the three basic steps given in this chapter and the next two: (1) Having a plan, writing out one's desires concerning that plan, and constantly expanding it; (2) Mentally imaging that plan as fulfilled; (3) Constantly affirming its perfect fulfillment.

For the wishes of one's old life wither and shrivel like old leaves if they are not replaced with new wishes when the world changes. And the world always changes. Wishes get slimy, and their colors fade, and soon they are just mud, like all the rest of the mud, and not wishes at all, but regrets. The trouble is, not everyone can tell when they ought to launder their wishes.

We always dreamed the same dreams, which was like living twice.

You can't say no if you don't have desires and opinions and wants of your own. You wouldn't even want to. No is the heart of thinking.

The wishes and desires of the powerful can be fickle things. I knew this. But I knew it in that deep place where one hides knowledge that is inconvenient, or too painful to admit, even to oneself.

I delight myself in You and Your Word. Because of that, You put Your desires within my heart.

Beauty without wit offers nothing but the enjoyment of its material charms, whilst witty ugliness captivates by the charms of the mind, and at last fulfils all the desires of the man it has captivated.

Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them.

It is shallow desires which make a young man bold; strong desires confound him.

Confessare, anche a se stessi, i propri desideri - quelli veri - è pericoloso. Se sono realizzabili, e spesso lo sono, dichiararli ti mette di fronte alla paura di provarci. E dunque alla tua vigliaccheria. Allora preferisci non pensarci, o pensare che hai desideri impossibili, e che è da adulti non pensare alle cose impossibili.