Quotes Tagged "desire"

She wanted to hear more of Soledad geeking out, preferably while sticky and naked and trying to decide on pizza toppings.

Desire is an art.

It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.

And still the brain continues to yearn, continues to burn, foolishly, with desire. My old man's brain is mocked by a body that still longs to stretch in the sun and form a beautiful shape in someone else's gaze, to lie under a blue sky and dream of helpless, selfless love, to behold itself, illuminated, in the golden light of another's eyes.

There is only as much space, only as much time, Only as much desire, only as many words, Only as many pages, only as much ink To accept all of us at light-speed Hurrying into the Promised Land Of oblivion that is waiting for us sooner or later.

Doubtless there is a desire in human beings to exist everywhere in space, but there seems to be a much stronger desire to exist everywhere in time, or at least in future time.

Life is nothing more than moments in time. To achieve greatness, you have to give up those moments. You have to give your life to your goal.

The Tuesday Seamstress said our souls were sewn apart. Delicate embroidered tomorrows travelled without a start.

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

The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of realization spread over the years. And each droplet of comprehension brought its own small measure of hurt...He had wished me well in finding my own fate to follow, and I never doubted his sincerity. But it had taken me years to accept that his absence in my life was a deliberate finality, an act he had chosen, a thing completed even as some part of my soul still dangled, waiting for his return.

There is no limit to how good you can get in pursuit of perfection.

What is the universe but a lot of waves And a craving desire is a wave…

Total knowledge is annihilation Of the desire to see, to touch, to feel The world sensed only through senses And immune to the knowledge without feeling.

Continued observations in clinical psychological practice lead almost inevitably to the conclusion that deeper and more fundamental than sexuality, deeper than the craving for social power, deeper even than the desire for possessions, there is a still more generalized and universal craving in the human make-up. It is the craving for knowledge of the right direction - for orientation.

ஆசையின் வழியே பயணப்படக் கூடாது. அறிதலின் வழிதான் பயணப்பட வேண்டும். இயற்கை ஆசைக்கான பொருளன்று.

To know God as he is, is to love him as he is and to want to be like him.

To understand the real meaning of what others want to say to us, we must understand which ‘language game’ they are playing.

Jste jako složitá kniha, ve které musím číst. Nezajímá mě boj o moc, chci odpovědi. Je mi jedno, kdo mi je dá. Hlavně když je dostanu. (Amélie Lambertová)

Don’t make listening a chore. It doesn’t have to be hard work. Make it fun. Make it a game. Make it a treasure hunt. What could be more interesting than discovering new things and increasing our powers of perception? Listening is a never-ending journey along an ever-improving road.

Yes, surprising, isn’t it?” he said. . . . “You’d think everyone would ask for what they want and there’d be hundreds of tailors catering to specification. But most people don’t know what they want.