#desire

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#liberty #lose #man #others #over

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

#desire #diligence #enslave #free #free-time

To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal. ↗

— John Berger

#love #life

The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire. ↗

— Slavoj Žižek

#meaning-of-life #satisfaction #life

Inside of all of us there is the need and the desire to be heard, to have our innermost thoughts, feelings and desires expressed for others to hear, to see and to understand. We all want to matter to someone, to leave a mark. Writers just take those thoughts, feelings and desires and express them in such a way that the reader not only reads them but feels them as well. ↗

— Vicktor Alexander

#expression #feelings #legacy #life #writers

Had a couple of drinks by myself. It was a mistake. Have I got to give up drinking, too? If I eliminate everything, how will I exist? I was somebody who loved Maurice and went with men and enjoyed my drinks. What happens if you drop all the things that make you I? ↗

— Graham Greene

#drinking #love #love

Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#happiness #money #poor #rich #wealth

Because of my wealth thinkest thow I may gratify every desire? 'Tis a false idea. There are limits to my time. There are limits to my strength. There are limits to the distance I may travel. There are limits to what I may eat. There are limits to the zest with which I may enjoy. ↗

— George S Clason

#limitations #money #money

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 dress and fill myself in the moist and hot bed nature made between her thighs. We made love outdoors—without a roof, I like most, without stove, my favorite place, assuming the weather be fair and balmy, and the earth beneath be clean. Our souls intertwined and dripping with dew, and our love for each other was seen. Our love for the world was new. ↗

— Roman Payne

#desire #green-eyes #lamb #making-love #malta

The word desire suggests that there is something we do not have. If we have everything already, then there can be no desire, for there is nothing left to want. I think that what the Buddha may have been trying to tell us is that we have it all, each of us, all the time; therefore, desire is simply unnecessary. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#desire #religion #religion