Desire Quote by Giacomo Leopardi

It is unpleasing to represent our affairs to our own disadvantage; yet it is necessary to shew the evils which we desire to be…

— Samuel Johnson

We're socially constructed to hide our flaws, and that breeds pain for a lot of people.

— Whitney Cummings

The qualities we have, make us so ridiculous as those which we affect.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We have advantages. We have a cushion to fall back on. This is abundance. A luxury of place and time. Something rare and wonderful.…

— Dave Eggers

Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will be ashamed…

— Desmond Tutu

We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.

— Anonymous

The bleakness of what faces us is difficult to swallow. As long as we engage in happy platitudes and a false kind of vision…

— Chris Hedges

We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times.

— Edward Gibbon

As human beings we have unlimited potential and imagination. The worst thing you can do is be a conformist and buy into conformity. It's…

— Deepak Chopra

Deep down, all of us are probably aware that some kind of mystical evolution is our true task. Yet we suppress the notion with…

— Tom Robbins