#desire

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

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. Desire takes one out of oneself, into the possibility or relationship, but it also takes one deeper into oneself. Anxiety turns one back on oneself, but only onto the self that is already known. ↗

— Mark Epstein

#desire #psychology #relationships #sexuality #spirituality

You are moving on the chariot of your desire whatever you are thinking is always right. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#desire #life #thinking #life

To let go means to give up coercing, resisting, or struggling, in exchange for something more powerful and wholesome which comes out of allowing things to be as they are without getting caught up in your attraction to or rejection of them, in the intrinsic stickiness of wanting, of liking and disliking. ↗

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

#letting #reject #struggle #to #want

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

— Jodi Picoult

#desires #love #wants #love

I'll always want him. Until every sun goes dark in every sky, until I am nothing more than long-forgotten cosmic dust, I will want him. And even then I suspect my particles will long for his. ↗

— Ann Aguirre

#love #love

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from. ↗

— George Eliot

#desire #effort #escape #evil #except

What's life without love for living it? ↗

— Laxmi Hichkad

#love

For love is no part of the dreamworld. Love belongs to desire, and desire is always cruel ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#love #sandman #love

Kiss me. My lips are on fire. You, my friend, are the object of my secret desire. ↗

— Lisa Canfield

#love #love