Desire Quote by Irvin D. Yalom

Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I believe that a lot of times we don’t get what we want because we don’t know what we want, and we don’t know…

— Tanesia Harris

“You do not get what you wish for, unless it be known to the source of your desire.”

— T.F. Hodge

“Therefore, when you know what you want, you must deliberately focus your attention on the feeling of your wish fulfilled until that feeling fills…

— Neville

“Should we go into people’s inner and private thoughts and motivations, we would see that their wishes and hopes are almost invariably at someone…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“So few people are really aware of their thoughts. Their minds run all over the place without their permission, and they go along for…

— Thomas M. Sterner

“It is necessary to avoid falling prey to the demands that others make, especially if what they want is different from your choices or…

— Steven Redhead

“What is it in the human condition that tries to impose our own view onto others, without the ability, capacity, propensity, to receive somebody…

— Wim Wenders

“more importantly, they learn that they are the one in control of their interior experience and how they feel. They learn that discouragement is…

— Brooke Castillo

“When we create a life based on what we think we are supposed to do rather than from our own heart's desire, we always…

— HeatherAsh Amara

“By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Nearly everyone in the world has appetites and impulses, trigger emotions, islands of selfishness, lusts just beneath the surface.”

— John Steinbeck