desires

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
0da1bc3	What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.	love desires wants	Jodi Picoult
5f7023f	What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.	motivational inspirational aims achievement desires self-trust belief goals self-confidence	Norman Vincent Peale
09b8acf	For the first time, she did want more. She did not know what she wanted, knew that it was dangerous and that she should rest content with what she had, but she knew an emptiness deep inside her, which began to ache.	dreams desires contentment longing	Iain Pears
c318012	One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.	desires	Friedrich Nietzsche
1112b92	Never give up	trying dreams hope inspirational desires richelle richelle-goodrich perserverance ambition drive effort	Richelle E. Goodrich
c1af06b	The best is the enemy of good.	good greed insatiability desires best	Voltaire
90e8efe	Become the leader of your life. Lead yourself to where you want to be. Breathe life back into your ambitions, your desires, your goals, your relationships.	ambitions breathe relationships motivational success life inspirational desires leader goals	Steve Maraboli
b18a61a	I wanted a metamorphosis, a change to fish, to leviathan, to destroyer. I wanted the earth to open up, to swallow everything in one engulfing yawn. I wanted to see the city buried fathoms deep in the bosom of the sea. I wanted to sit in a cave and read by candlelight. I wanted that eye extinguished so that I might have a chance to know my own body, my own desires. I wanted to be alone for a thousand years in order to reflect on what I had seen and heard - and in order to forget.	candlelight yawn desires leviathan caves reflect metamorphosis forget	Henry Miller
dd714f8	"We've had enough." He took back the report and jammed it under his arm. "We've had a bellyful, in fact." "And like everyone who's had enough," said Control as Alleline noisily left the room, "he wants more."	greed saturation desires dissatisfaction	John le Carré
c1b9af0	I wanted a settled life and a shocking one. Think of Van Gogh, cypress trees and church spires under a sky of writhing snakes. I was my father's daughter. I wanted to be loved by someone like my tough judicious mother and I wanted to run screaming through the headlights with a bottle in my hand. That was the family curse. We tended to nurse flocks of undisciplined wishes that collided and canceled each other out. The curse implied that if we didn't learn to train our desires in one direction or another we were likely to end up with nothing. Look at my father and mother today. I married in my early twenties. When that went to pieces I loved a woman. At both of those times and at other times, too, I believed I had focused my impulses and embarked on a long victory over my own confusion. Now, in my late thirties, I knew less than ever about what I wanted. In place of youth's belief in change I had begun to feel a nervous embarrassment that ticked inside me like a clock. I'd never meant to get this far in such an unfastened condition. (p.142)	romance glbtq desires indecision	Michael Cunningham
040058f	And while his mother's lecture had gone over his seven-year-old head, Pasquale saw now what she meant--how much easier life would be if our intentions and our desires could always be aligned.	life-lessons desires intentions	Jess Walter
f4560e3	The kinds of purchases surveyed in the news generally sit well beyond necessity. In acquiring them, what we are after is rarely solely or even chiefly just material satisfaction; we are also guided by a deeper, often unconscious desire for some form of psychological transformation. We don't only want to things; we want to be through our ownership of them. Once we examine consumer behaviour with sufficient attention and generosity, it becomes clear that we aren't indelibly materialistic at all. What makes our age distinctive is our ambition to try to accomplish a variety of complex psychological goals via the acquisition of material goods.	change life desires purchases material-goods necessity materialism psychology	Alain de Botton
ea80093	Felix had gone to live in a lotus land of his imagination. Where what is desired is dreamed of as already happened, where obstacles dissolve under the weight of desire, and where reality has vanished entirely.	futility imagination dreams cloud-cuckoo-land irreality phantasy desires wishful-thinking wishes irrationality	Iain Pears
9da2d31	As humans we are inclined to feel that life must have a point. We have plans and aspirations and desires. We want to take constant advantage of all the intoxicating existence we've been endowed with. But what's life to a cell? Yet it's impulse to exist, to be, is every bit as strong as ours - perhaps even stronger. Life just wants to be.	existence history life desires impulse humans	Bill Bryson

What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.

Jodi Picoult

5f7023f

What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.

motivational inspirational aims achievement desires self-trust belief goals self-confidence

Norman Vincent Peale

09b8acf

For the first time, she did want more. She did not know what she wanted, knew that it was dangerous and that she should rest content with what she had, but she knew an emptiness deep inside her, which began to ache.

dreams desires contentment longing

Iain Pears

c318012

One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.

desires

Friedrich Nietzsche

1112b92

Never give up

trying dreams hope inspirational desires richelle richelle-goodrich perserverance ambition drive effort

Richelle E. Goodrich

c1af06b

The best is the enemy of good.

good greed insatiability desires best

Voltaire

90e8efe

Become the leader of your life. Lead yourself to where you want to be. Breathe life back into your ambitions, your desires, your goals, your relationships.

ambitions breathe relationships motivational success life inspirational desires leader goals

Steve Maraboli

b18a61a

I wanted a metamorphosis, a change to fish, to leviathan, to destroyer. I wanted the earth to open up, to swallow everything in one engulfing yawn. I wanted to see the city buried fathoms deep in the bosom of the sea. I wanted to sit in a cave and read by candlelight. I wanted that eye extinguished so that I might have a chance to know my own body, my own desires. I wanted to be alone for a thousand years in order to reflect on what I had seen and heard - and in order to forget.

candlelight yawn desires leviathan caves reflect metamorphosis forget

Henry Miller

dd714f8

"We've had enough." He took back the report and jammed it under his arm. "We've had a bellyful, in fact." "And like everyone who's had enough," said Control as Alleline noisily left the room, "he wants more."

greed saturation desires dissatisfaction

John le Carré

c1b9af0

I wanted a settled life and a shocking one. Think of Van Gogh, cypress trees and church spires under a sky of writhing snakes. I was my father's daughter. I wanted to be loved by someone like my tough judicious mother and I wanted to run screaming through the headlights with a bottle in my hand. That was the family curse. We tended to nurse flocks of undisciplined wishes that collided and canceled each other out. The curse implied that if we didn't learn to train our desires in one direction or another we were likely to end up with nothing. Look at my father and mother today. I married in my early twenties. When that went to pieces I loved a woman. At both of those times and at other times, too, I believed I had focused my impulses and embarked on a long victory over my own confusion. Now, in my late thirties, I knew less than ever about what I wanted. In place of youth's belief in change I had begun to feel a nervous embarrassment that ticked inside me like a clock. I'd never meant to get this far in such an unfastened condition. (p.142)

romance glbtq desires indecision

Michael Cunningham

040058f

And while his mother's lecture had gone over his seven-year-old head, Pasquale saw now what she meant--how much easier life would be if our intentions and our desires could always be aligned.

life-lessons desires intentions

Jess Walter

f4560e3

The kinds of purchases surveyed in the news generally sit well beyond necessity. In acquiring them, what we are after is rarely solely or even chiefly just material satisfaction; we are also guided by a deeper, often unconscious desire for some form of psychological transformation. We don't only want to things; we want to be through our ownership of them. Once we examine consumer behaviour with sufficient attention and generosity, it becomes clear that we aren't indelibly materialistic at all. What makes our age distinctive is our ambition to try to accomplish a variety of complex psychological goals via the acquisition of material goods.

change life desires purchases material-goods necessity materialism psychology

Alain de Botton

ea80093

Felix had gone to live in a lotus land of his imagination. Where what is desired is dreamed of as already happened, where obstacles dissolve under the weight of desire, and where reality has vanished entirely.

futility imagination dreams cloud-cuckoo-land irreality phantasy desires wishful-thinking wishes irrationality

Iain Pears

9da2d31

As humans we are inclined to feel that life must have a point. We have plans and aspirations and desires. We want to take constant advantage of all the intoxicating existence we've been endowed with. But what's life to a cell? Yet it's impulse to exist, to be, is every bit as strong as ours - perhaps even stronger. Life just wants to be.

existence history life desires impulse humans

Bill Bryson