A 'whim' is a desire experienced by a person who does not know and does not care to discover its cause. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Satisfying natural desires is fine, but natural desires have a way of being both competitive and consequential.” — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
You're not supposed to give people what they want, you give them what they don't know they want yet. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires.” — Raymond Holliwell Copy Share Image
Free from passion and desire, you have stripped the thorns from the stem. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I've spent hundreds of hours working over words, and part of me, a large part of me, has a desire to do… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
It is better to desire the things we have than to have the things we desire. — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Criminals interest me, because they're driven by the same desires as we are, but they take these disastrous shortcuts and end up… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
Gratitude causes us to no longer desire a different life. Instead, it causes us to make the most of the one life… — Josh Becker Copy Share Image
I'd like to believe that I would be able to give in the same way Mandela did, but in reality, I don't… — Naomie Harris Copy Share Image
“If a man seeks you to understand him; listen closely, for what is really going on is nothing more that you manifesting… — Jeremy Aldana Copy Share Image
“She hoped to understand the feelings that had sprouted and continued to grow inside her human shell. The unquenchable desire for companionship.… — Hillary Jacques Copy Share Image
Our basic fundamental desires are overly stimulated. A friend of mine said, "you have a generation of people that have been accidentally… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
“Plants cannot stay safe. Desire for light spools grass out of the ground; desire for a visitor spools red ruffles out of… — Amy Leach Copy Share Image
Character refers to dispositions and habits that determine the way that person normally responds to desires, fears, challenges, opportunities, failures and successes. — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
“I can discover within me no power of perception which is not glutted with its proper pleasure, yet I do not feel… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I think desire gives us - imagination - as well as actually often we pay a terrible price for it. Women are… — Amber Hollibaugh Copy Share Image
The collaboration which sometimes follows is seldom based on good will: usually on desire, rage, fear, pity or longing. The modern illusion… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Set aside all involvements and let the myriad things rest. Zazen is not thinking of good, not thinking of bad. It is… — Dogen Copy Share Image
“I used to wish that I would just wake up one day and the bad feeling in my mind would be gone.… — Heather Anne Talpa Copy Share Image
All things issue from it; all things return to it. To find the origin, trace back the manifestations. When you recognize the… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The kind of caring that the client-centered therapist desires to achieve is a gullible caring, in which clients are accepted as they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“God puts desires into your heart. His desires will actually become your desires, and your desires will be His.” — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
Seeker, empty the boat, lighten the load, be free of craving and judgment and hatred, and feel the joy of the way. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“When you look at me, tease my desire with a mere gaze, it shreds the edges of my soul… ~ Ripp Collins” — Yvonne Nicolas Copy Share Image
“My normal may not be your normal, but HIS normal should be our desire.” — Evinda Lepins Copy Share Image
“You are not The Giver of My Heart’s Desire.” I took a deep breath and smiled. “You are my heart’s desire.” — Julianne Donaldson Copy Share Image
“He made me feel unhinged . . . like he could take me apart and put me back together again and again.” — Chelsie Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In Las Vegas, you confront yourself with your darkest desires, because they're all possible there. — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
Mans desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived. — William Blake Copy Share Image
It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves. — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
It's absurd to think that desire for attention doesn't drive both women and men. Why are women scrutinized for it more, then? — Emily Ratajkowski Copy Share Image
Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I don't have a desire to prove people wrong, as such, because if you take a look at my Premier League record… — Neil Warnock Copy Share Image
Friends such as we desire are dreams and fables, yet we never quite give up the hope of finding them. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I've always believed that the desire must come from within, not as a result of being driven by coaches or parents. — Dawn Fraser Copy Share Image
