A third felicity of age is that it has found expression. The youth suffers not only from ungratified desires, but from powers… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Why do those hard choices in life—you know, the ones you make because they're the right damn thing to do—always feel like… — Jessica Lee Copy Share Image
A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At some point, extra incomes don't go to sate desires but to attempt to buy status through 'positional goods' - like the… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
Thirsting desires and longings possessed my soul after perfect holiness. God was so precious to my soul that the world with all… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
My requirements and my desires are relatively small - things like having a bed, a shower... A bathtub is usually high on… — Melody Gardot Copy Share Image
“Once your past no longer has the power to define you, your future is, quite literally, yours for the taking. Every single… — Dan Pearce Copy Share Image
I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Basically, we've grown up very focused on the institution. The institution tells me what to do. It tells me where to go.… — Michael Mullen Copy Share Image
I wanted to make people proud, not let anyone down, but I think over time I've started to learn to manage that… — Pokimane Copy Share Image
“Love? I wanted to go with him, to be on the stronger side, for him to spare me, like one who seeks… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“Needs are very few and a man who understands what is needful will always be happy and blissful. Desires are many, needs… — Osho Copy Share Image
“I feel that human desires are absolutely necessary. They keep us alive. So, we shouldn’t frown upon them. And instead, should embrace… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
“God didn't put you on this earth to do only one thing. You can do all the many things your heart desires."… — K.C. Hilton Copy Share Image
“But the real fierceness of desire, the real heat of a passion long continued and withering up the soul of a man,… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
What interests me is the following paradox: of how, precisely in our liberal societies, where no one can even imagine a transcendental… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Fashion is one of the most intellectually vacuous industries. We had to manufacture desires to get people to buy our products. We… — Douglas Tompkins Copy Share Image
Those desires that do not bring pain if they are not satisfied are not necessary; and they are easily thrust aside whenever… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
“Lose myself in your blueberry eyes Magnolia, kiss your mauve lips of grapes, squeeze your fleshy, milky macaroon breasts,smell your opium breath… — Laura Gentile Copy Share Image
“I feel like a massive wave of life just washed over me. While luck comes in many guises, winning the lottery pales… — Charles Dyson Copy Share Image
When your desires drop, the world is there, but it is a totally new world. It is so fresh, it is so… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Thousands of desires, each worth dying for... Many of them I have realized...yet I yearn for more... Why should my killer (lover)… — Avinash Advani Copy Share Image
“Did you think a wishing well would be full of noble feelings? A wish is pure desire, Lizzy. You're old enough to… — Jake Wyatt Copy Share Image
Mr. Chamberlain desires to avert the threat to England's peace by making England, in alliance with Germany, stronger than her rivals and… — Bernhard von Bulow Copy Share Image
If we conceive that anyone loves, desires, or hates anything which we ourselves love, desire, or hate, we shall thereupon regard the… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Let us remember that desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions. In addition, it is our… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
What's difficult with doing 'The Producers' is your appetite is enormous. You want money; you want boards; you have huge desires. You've… — Richard Kind Copy Share Image
“Open your mind to the infinite possibilities that exist for you. Born through your dreams, crystallised into form by your desires, given… — steven redhead Copy Share Image
You can live with victory over the desires of your flesh. Habits, attitudes, desires, worries, and dissipation must yield as you exercise… — Adrian Rogers Copy Share Image
It is to be presumed, that a man of common sense, who does not desire to please, desires nothing at all; since… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Scriptures reveal the divine desires of the Lord in our behalf. Each of us should have a burning desire to search the… — L. Lionel Kendrick Copy Share Image
“Awaken to the opportunities available for you today. It’s not too late to be, do, and have, whatever you so desire. It’s… — Bernard Kelvin Clive Copy Share Image
“My third maxim was to endeavour always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and change my desires rather than the order of… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
When it comes to desire, it's not a matter of avoiding desire, but rather learning to discern those desires that are helpful… — Rod Stryker Copy Share Image
I want my little girl to tell me who she is so I can encourage her and not impose my desires for… — Salma Hayek Copy Share Image
“Most modern men want sex and can’t have it. They want success and never get it. They want money and never earn… — Barbie Wilde Copy Share Image
The Beijing Olympics and the Shanghai World Expo show just how much effort China is willing to spend to enter the global… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
And desires are never here and now - they are non-existential. They are just mental, in the mind. And they cannot be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We plant seeds in the ground And dreams in the sky, Hoping that, someday, the roots of one Will meet the upstretched… — Alberto Ríos Copy Share Image
If people only knew what lies at the heart of my novels! What a tumult of desires these carefully written pages conceal!… — Julien Green Copy Share Image
