One late winter afternoon in Oxford Street, amid the noise of vehicles and voices that filled that dusky thoroughfare, as I was borne onward with the crowd past the great electric-lighted shops, a holy Indifference...

Love is a feeling that is imposed on you. You cannot be lazy; it is up to you to make things work and make the best of it.

While the primary function of formal Buddhist meditation is to create the possibility of the experience of “being,” my work as a therapist has shown me that the demands of intimate life can be just...

You wanted to show everyone you could write about the black heart of a killer. And all the while pretending you don’t even have your own dark desires.

Nay, without thought or conscious desire, might not things external to ourselves vibrate in unison with our moods and passions, atom calling to atom in secret love or strange affinity?

Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the obsessive phenomenon of all amorous sentiment.

The green-eyed angel came in less than a half hour and fell docile as a lamb into my arms. We kissed and caressed, I met no resistance when I unlaced the strings to free her...

I fall into him like one would fall into a dream, ready to submit to your subconscious’s inner most desires and your deepest fears.

My desire, my sincere and heartfelt desire is to rip that surprisingly sheer garment from your body, toss you onto that bed, and indeed ravish you from head to toe. I wish to make love...

Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of ”speculation”; but...

Where true Love burns Desire is Love’s pure flame;It is the reflex of our earthly frame,That takes its meaning from the nobler part,And but translates the language of the heart.

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.

Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).

The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.

There’s a great spirit gone! Thus did I desire it.What our contempts doth often hurl from us,We wish it ours again. The present pleasure,By revolution lowering, does becomeThe opposite of itself. She’s good, being gone.The...

I think so. Especially with this team. We’re a young team, but we sure don’t lack desire and heart. Everybody’s hungry. Everybody’s fighting for a spot. So that has a lot to do with it....

The only way to be content in life is to make sure your NEED don’t become GREED.

For all those who say its a Man world. Respect Women Its their World we are just guest here

The golden rule of business is supply and demand. I venture to say that this is also the rule of happiness. When a balance is achieved between our desires and another’s willingness to satisfy them,...

One must count ones riches by the means one has to satisfy his desires.

I’m sentimental–I know. I’m desperate and silly–I know that too. Oh, help me!

I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings.

When birds desire to chirp, lustily desire to chirp, may my call go there, as an arrow-point upon the shaft!

It’s so much better to desire than to have. . . . The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen — that’s the most exalting.

When it comes to youI can’t help myselfI’ve never been thisattachedto someone’s flaws

How many losses does it take to stop a heart,to lay waste to the vocabularies of desire?

He was the kind of man I wanted: wild, hot, horny, and losing control. And it all pointed back to me, about how much I felt in control of him, with the power of my...

What most men desire is a virgin who is a whore.

We can know what we do wrong even before we do it, but self-knowledge can’t affect or change the outcome, can it? Everyone singing his own little song, convinced it’s the most wonderful song the...

He made me feel unhinged . . . like he could take me apart and put me back together again and again.

You can keep going on much less attention than you crave.

Do me a favor? Be a gentleman tomorrow?

We might like to think of ourselves as autonomous beings who get to decide who we are going to be, but we are likely much more malleable than we think. We are often defined by...

It is much easier to extinguish a first desire than to satisfy all of those that follow it.

What was he? A mere human, stuck between the rungs of blended adolescence and nascent adulthood. What power did he command over the mysterious forces of love? Which sword could shatter the impenetrable armour of...

I’ve always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world.

NOVIA. ¡Porque yo me fui con el otro, me fui! (Con angustia.) Tú también te hubieras ido. Yo era una mujer quemada, llena de llagas por dentro y por fuera,y tu hijo era un poquito...

To others, the universe seems decent because decent people have welded eyes. That is why they fear lewdness. They are never frightened by the crowing of a rooster or when strolling under a starry heaven....

I am the mermaid of desire. Half man, half aquatic creature, I fish for my other half.

Public transit situates us so that we are given license to accept what’s right in front of us, but will likely arouse our desire to compare our narrative to someone else’s, to give ourselves permission...

Fall for me, as an apple falls, as rain falls, because you must. Use gravity to anchor your desire.

Beauty is the desire for beauty.

Many students from the social sciences have expressed a desire to learn the language because they know it will be useful in their field of work.

..and when he let her go, it was as if she had been filled and didn’t realize it until he pulled away and the absence rushed back in.

When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.

You spoke to her, in hidden dreams…and smiled at her through open doors. She felt your secret love surround her at times. And while alone she felt your breath, heartbeat and more… Serenity of hers...

I am a selfish, conceited, impudent little animal, it is true, but, after all, I am only one grand conglomeration of Wanting…

The sight made her ache. How can I not touch you? she thought hopelessly, and then she was doing it, her fingers on his wrist. He didn’t jump or even look at her, just stopped...

You may be a person I admire, but you can’t be a person that everyone admires. You are not everyone’s favourite, but you are someone’s favourite whether you like them or not.

A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name...