La certitude d’avoir empêche de désirer.

The greatest remedy in the world is change; and change implies the passing from the old to the new. It is also the only path that leads from the lesser to the greater, from the...

Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.

It was so much easier when I didn’t want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.

In the Tunnel of Desire, past the Tube of Destiny, lies the Turtle of Doubt. We all have to face that turtle, but only the confident ones ever find out that doubt tastes like chicken.

The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie.It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite forheaven, but endless nibbling at the table of the world. It...

We’re pursuing a strategic partnership with Afghanistan on the case of the United States and Afghanistan where we’re going to push toward a future. It is the future that the Afghans desire with the United...

An aspirational diet will have you dreaming of success; but it’s the attachment of expectations and tangible goals that feeds the desire, persistence, and fortitude required to make the win.

Seize every opportunity to fulfill your calling.

Raimon was amused to see that the countess Carenza grew more beautiful by the day: her expression has softened and the pouches under her eyes had disappeared. She carried herself confidently, secure in the knowledge...

We don’t need fashion to survive, we just desire it so much.

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BASIC LIFE ATTRIBUTESFour purusharthas or goals of the life be,So very crystal clear in life undisputedly;1Artha getting useful wealth and prosperity,Finding the meaning for living herein truly;2Kama fulfilling desires, acting repeatedly,It the physical, material desire...

Adam was in the dream, too; he traced the tangled pattern of ink with his finger. He said, “Scio quid hoc est.” As he traced it further and further down on the bare skin of...

You might be able to kiss like a rock star, but you’ve got to get over this macho trip. You don’t own me.

I ask for nothing. / In return I give All. / There is no earning my Love. / No work needed, no effort / Save to listen to what is already heard, / To see...

If I have you for a day, I’ll want you for a week. If I have you for a week, I’ll want you for another week.

Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or a need, to engage this unknown, while anxiety suggests a fear of it....

The other is less tangible — the emotional attachment to a city or a neighborhood. There’s a powerful human desire to return to that and restore that.

He expected pages and pages of bright pictures of pancakes of every variety shown in plain stacks, or built into castles or bridges or igloos, or shaped like airplanes or rowboats or fire engines. And...

When you step away from doing something that you have always been doing and then you return to it, you have a different perspective. You get that desire and the will to strike at everything.

Before you make a decision, ask yourself this question: will you regret the results or rejoice in them?

When my sons arrived in the family, their legal status was not ambiguous at all. They were our kids. But their wants and affections were still atrophied by a year in the orphanage. They didn’t...

Faith is not Desire. Faith is Will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied, whereas Will is a force. Will changes the space around us,…

they comedifferent and the samewith each it is different and the samewith each the absence of love is differentwith each the absence of love is the same

Few things are as painful as the unfulfilled desire to be near to another you love.

Clearly, all fear has an element of resistance and a leaning away from the moment. Its dynamic is not unlike that of strong desire except that fear leans backward into the last safe moment while...

Stella, the only planet of my light,Light of my life, and life of my desire,Chief good, whereto my hope doth only aspire,World of my wealth, and heav’n of my delight:Why dost thou spend the treasure...

It is common to seek perfection, but it is stupid to believe that you will ever reach it.

Desire is like fog on a bathroom mirror — its presence incites you to wipe the mirror, and see yourself clearly again.

If desire causes suffering, it may be because we do not desire wisely, or that we are inexpert at obtaining what we desire. Instead of hiding our heads in a prayer cloth and building walls...

It took so long to find you…and now I don’t want it to change. I want it all set in amber. I want us and nobody else in the most selfish way you can imagine....

If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

They can stop a river by building a dam, but I will be damned if they can stop my river of blood flowing through my veins and heart.

Resting my head on the high-backed chair, I silently marvel at emotion so strong itcan quite literally chase away all reason and good sense. It is something I have neverexperienced. I pity Frances for being...

Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our resources. And every time we feel satisfied with what we have,...

It was beautiful Eric, who desired me, who was hungry for me, in a world that often let me know it could do very well without me.

Every negative complex of emotion conceals a conflict, a problem or dilemma made up of contradictory or opposing motives or desires. Self-observation must recover these emotional seeds of the dramatization of life if real control...

She abandoned herself to his whim, thinking it was to be an orgy of eyes and hands only.

Do not allow another person to set you back. Continue moving forward not backwards. When someone pulls you back, be like the arrow to a bow and spring forth greater than ever. And, what they...

A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams.

Standing each by his monster, they looked at each other, and smiled

It was the impatience of the way he tore my panties from my body, that really turned me on: I was all he could think of, as his lust got the better of him. I...

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

What men classify as living is often but the discontentment of making oneself itch just to enjoy the scratch.

I want my time to be taken up by chores, errands, appointments, and arguments. In other words, I want to get married.

A brick could make everything better for me. Now, if I could only find a way to get my hands on one. But it’s a silly dream, because I don’t have the ambition to get...

Don’t canonize me too soon. I’m perfectly capable of fathering a child.

It’s what you do in your free time that will set you free—or enslave you.

When we kill our desires we stink like any corpse.