Quotes of: Desires Keyword

What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes intense desire.

The Blight of Muirwood

...there was a natural comorbidity between sexual appetite and sexual jealousy, between the desire to fuck and the desire to kill.

Big in Japan: A Ghost Story

Who can ever hold the essence of fire? Who can ever know the alchemy of desire?

The Alchemy of Desire

All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.

The Imitation of Christ

Hell is all desire without the possibility of fulfillment. Heaven is all fulfillment without the possibility of desire.

The Ideal in the West

At Gethsemane: "Jesus is subordinating His loudest desires to His deepest desires.

King's Cross: The Story of the World in the Life of Jesus

Words travel as swiftly as desire, so it is possible to send a message of love without them.

Swift as Desire

...there are natural consequences for not taking care of our bodies.

Made to Crave: Satisfying Your Deepest Desire with God, Not Food

Schopenhauer wrote that to desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake. He was correct.

The Last Titan

I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other people's desire for me to do well.

Patrick Chan

There are two kinds of people in this world: people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired so much that they pretend they don't.

Rabih Alameddine

We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.

Leo Tolstoy

It starts with Dreams—Dreams create Desires, Desires create Determination, which leads us to our Destiny. -RVM

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It starts with Dreams—Dreams create Desires, Desires create Determination, which leads us to our Destiny. - RVM.

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We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.

Marcel Proust

I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly.

Nellie Bly

Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.

John Drinkwater

Desires collide; the wish to eat bumping up against the wish to be thin, the desire to indulge conflicting with the injunction to restrain. Small wonder food makes a woman nervous.

Caroline Knapp

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Bertrand Russell

The American way of life, as I see it, is really the American way of death. Everything is determined by greed and the insatiable desire to be the richest and most powerful. And that desire is limitless.

Lydia Lunch

It is helpful to think of people as having two fundamental motivations: the desire to see ourselves as honest, good people, and the desire to gain the benefits that come from cheating - on our taxes or on the football field.

Dan Ariely