Calm Quote by Paul Fleischman

We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will…

— Bill Watterson

When desire for a certain person's attention becomes an "I have to have" kind of grasping, then identity gets organized around needing that and…

— Tara Brach

It is clear to me that people often want incompatible things. They want danger and excitement on the one hand, and safety and security…

— Theodore Dalrymple

“People make themselves unhappy by desiring and praising only one thing, by becoming too one-sided in trying to find contentment. If we were just…

— Adalbert Stifter

The vast majority of people are born, grow up, struggle and go through life in misery and failure, not realizing that it would be…

— Napoleon Hill

“The underlying dynamic here is that a want can easily be interpreted as a need. This happens in two ways. First, we can make…

— Marc Foley

“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

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

— Sylvia Plath

“The feeling is one born of a too easy satisfaction of natural needs. The human animal, like others, is adapted to a certain amount…

— Bertrand Russell

All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.

— Anne Carson

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

— Mark Twain

EVERY intense desire is perhaps basically a desire to be different from what we are.

— Eric Hoffer