“Behind every stressful thought is the desire for things to be other than they are.” — Toni Bernhard Copy Share Image
“How sad, he thought, that desire found new objects but did not abate, that when it came to longing there was no… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
“The desire to be desire-less is but another desire. The thought that, because this desire purports to be spiritual, it is superior… — Joel Kramer Copy Share Image
“It seemed to him that all his life he had followed the ideals that other people, by their words or their writings,… — W. Somerset Maughamset Maugham Copy Share Image
“To get rich, one must have but a single idea, one fixed, hard, immutable thought: the desire to make a heap of… — Petrus Borel Copy Share Image
“This was the mark of deep infatuation, he thought: the desire to watch a woman talk just to see her lips move,… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“Regardless of the circumstances of our births, hidden within each of us is a world of our own devising: our minds. Every… — Shae Ford Copy Share Image
“To put it in a rather vulgar way, I had been dreaming about love in the firm belief that I could not… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image