Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness. — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul—you create suffering. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The desire to keep doing what we love supersedes the desire to penalize bad behavior. — Nell Scovell Copy Share Image
“There’s a sensual art of asking that can despoil a man of everything he’s got BECAUSE OF HOW GOOD IT FEELS TO… — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
Wisdom in relationships involves a selfless desire to do what's best for the other person. — Joshua Harris Copy Share Image
I would act whether or not I was paid. I would be involved in ensemble groups. I would have the desire to… — Brendan Fraser Copy Share Image
“He had long been outside of the world of simple desires and their fulfillments, and he was inept and uncertain.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“It is a strange attitude, to view a woman merely as an object to be taken; to be so overwhelmed by the… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
I have a deep, dark desire within me to be accepted by others. I also have the desire to make things that… — Sarah Sherman Copy Share Image
I do feel the obligation and desire to win the Scudetto with Juventus, and obviously everybody wants to win the Champions League. — Carlos Tevez Copy Share Image
“I desire to live my life this way,... Not caged by the walls of fear, but in anticipation of the bridges to… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“Deception... It follows us everywhere, slowly devouring our peace and sanity. It creates a wall between us preventing me from reaching you… — Imania Margria Copy Share Image
“Maybe the desire that burns behind this question is the desire to be real. And which is more real - a clod… — Benjamin Rosenbaum Copy Share Image
One of the beautiful things about Tyler Durden in 'Fight Club' is that he seems to understand the implicit vanity and self-absorption… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
The most important part of our lives-our sensations, emotions, desires, and aspirations-takes place in a universe of illusions which science can attenuate… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
“You're confusing desire and love,' she said, watching him. 'They are not the same.' 'I do love you. I feel near to… — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
“If we are taken over by craving, no matter who or what is before us, all we can see is how it… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Eroticism differs from animal sexuality in that human sexuality is limited by taboos and the domain of eroticism is that of the… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
We sabotage our creative possibilities because the world revealed by our imagination may not fit well with the life we have taken… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
While just looking, we are always hunting among objects, looking for what we desire or fear, endeavoring to recognize some pattern; on… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“The lonely mind in the busy city yearns for connection because it thinks human-to-human connection is the point of everything. But amid… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
A [desire] to abolish slavery prevails in North America, many of the Pennsylvanians have set their slaves at liberty, and [Virginia legislators]… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Truth usually makes no sense. If your desire is for everything to make perfect sense, then you should take refuge in fiction.… — Peter David Copy Share Image
A passion to great is an obsession, an obsession to great is a passion. — Haterz_luvin Copy Share Image
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The way to infinite joy is through the elimination of desire, - no attachments, no aversions. — Lester Levenson Copy Share Image
We are the monkeys of desire trapped in a cage, Not having freedom to loose what one has and what one does… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid… — Ella Maillart Copy Share Image
the bird sings as if to say that delight is easy, for those who desire it — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
All your desires, whatever they may be, are expressions of your longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself well. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“you cannot get all your desires assuming the hidden secret standing somewhere scrutinizing your soul.” — Denmwen Copy Share Image
“In a wife I would desire / What in whores is always found / The lineaments of gratified desire.” — William Blake Copy Share Image
Potential counts for a lot; but heart, desire, and will can take a dream from potential to possible. — Robert Cheeke Copy Share Image
If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body. — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
“A fruit that comes forth is the desire and joy for the labour of a farmer.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Keep your eyes and ears open, if you desire to get on in the world. — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
I am, I am not, I will be, I will not be are vein thoughts which is a sickness and once all… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image