#desire

Do you have all that you desire? The health, the home, the career or the relationship? Look to where you're investing your time the most, is it dedicated to achieving those desires? ↗

— Rob Liano

#goals #relationshipse #time-management #home

When I was seventeen I found a man, or maybe he found me. Away from home for the first time, out of reach of my father’s archaic restrictions and my mother’s culinary insistence, I cut off my hair, dropped my Christian name, wore black and toyed with anorexia, passing incognito among the city workers, just another ant in that vast heap. ↗

— Nell Grey

#objects-of-desire #short-story-collection #solstice #home

We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts. ↗

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#desire #establishment #expansion #extensive #public

I want to be challenged I want to work and I want to feel that I am not being held back that there is something in front of me something more inspiring than... just eating breakfast you know ↗

— Sofia Vassilieva

#challenges #desire #feel #inspiration #inspired

Desire makes life happen. Makes it matter. Makes everything worth it. Desire is life. Hunger to see the next sunrise or sunset, to touch the one you love, to try again. “Hell would be waking up and wanting nothing,” he agrees. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#hope #life #life

The truly terrible thing about this life, was not knowing what you want, but only able to recognize what you do not want. You have to spend so much time and energy trying to find it out, time that other people spent in pursuing of their desires. ↗

— Whitney Otto

#goal #life #life

It's not that I feel alone because I have no friends because I have lots of friends. I know that I have people who can hold me and reassure me and talk to ne and care for me and think of me but they can't be inside my head with me all the time - for all time. ↗

— Rob Ryan

#desire #friendship #hope #insipration #love

The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy. ↗

— Rumi

#intelligence #self-control #intelligence

The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire. ↗

— Willa Cather

#life

There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too. ↗

— Alison Lurie

#life #life