#desires

One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#desires #love

He treasured her, treasured her tears, treasured her love for others. Her heart might even be big enough to fill that empty space in his own chest. Perhaps she could be his heart as well. ↗

— Elizabeth Hoyt

#mickey #scandalous-desires #love

He grunted and stirred, withdrawing from her. She only had a moment to be disappointed and then he flipped her to her back and rose over her, powerful and male. He casually parted her legs with his knees and thrust into her again, hot and hard. She gasped at the swift invasion, the lovely feeling, and then his face was next to hers, his big palms cradling her cheeks. “What I want,” he drawled, “is ye. Nothin’ else. ↗

— Elizabeth Hoyt

#mickey #oh-gawd-hawt #scandalous-desires #silence #love

On the other hand in London you can get an audience that desires dance to go as far as it can go: they've seen the bricks of ideas built over a period so therefore there is an acceptance of what otherwise might seem out on a limb. ↗

— Siobhan Davies

#as far as #audience #bricks #built #dance

Whatever it is your heart desires, please go for it, it's yours to have. ↗

— Gloria Estefan

#go #go for it #heart #please #whatever

I have a feeling that being in love sometimes means the projection of your desires onto another person. The important thing is that you like the other person, respect the other person and want to raise children with the other person. ↗

— Eric Braeden

#being #being in love #children #desires #feeling

Where consumption is both conspicuous and competitive, humanity will never run out of new wishes. All the while, industry creates new desires that are marketed, in the great fashion paradox, as both novelty and need. ↗

— James Buchan

#competitive #conspicuous #consumption #creates #desires

One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires. ↗

— Robert Collier

#desires #different #different directions #directions #equal

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires. ↗

— John Cleese

#desires #get #i #just #just one

Most of us have considerable prosperity in our lives. Often, we are so busy pursuing our unmet desires that we are unable to enjoy all that we already have. Allowing ourselves to really appreciate the prosperity we have created is a big step toward opening to even greater fulfillment. ↗

— Shakti Gawain

#already #appreciate #big #busy #considerable