Desire Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Some people are wish-blocked, knowing neither what they feel nor what they want. Without opinions, without impulses, without inclinations, they become parasites on the…

— Irvin D. Yalom

I have found that people who have a passion or a strong will for what they want to achieve, and who do not allow…

— Wayne Dyer

Persons who insist to themselves that under one set of conditions only can they lead interesting and satisfying lives lay themselves open to bitter…

— Hortense Odlum

Samuel Johnson called it the vanity of human wishes, and Buddhists talk about the endless cycle of desire. Social psychologists say we get trapped…

— Alison Gopnik

But what are wishes, compared with longings?

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

Those who covet much suffer from the want.

— Horace

Unattainable wishes are often "pious." This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“They strive to attain their wishes by every available means, instructing and compelling themselves to dishonest and difficult acts. And when their labour is…

— Seneca

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

Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none,…

— Plato

Some people forget their own wishes while fulfilling others.

— Melania

All wishes, whatever their apparent content, have the same and unvarying meaning: "I refuse to be what I am."

— W. H. Auden