#desire

All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire. ↗

— Rumi

#desire

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need. ↗

— Mick Jagger

#need #desire

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#desired-outcomes #projects #decisions

What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be human. ↗

— Clarice Lispector

#being #desire #evolution #human #yearning

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#desires #happiness #i #i have learned #learned

I have this desire to have this immaculate form of love that really doesn't exist, so my obsession goes on through life and I never find it and I end up miserable. But it makes me a better writer. ↗

— Angel Haze

#desire #end #exist #find #form

...he was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way... ↗

— Albert Camus

#love #death

Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#dangerous #desire #duality #heterosexuality #perfect

By the time I finished comedy, I was really burnt out of it. I had had enough. I don't really have a strong desire to prove myself in that area, or to go back to it in any great way. ↗

— Eric Bana

#area #back #burnt #by the time #comedy

If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect. ↗

— John Barton

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