3,482 Quotes About Desire

Perhaps that is why desire causes men calamity. By identifying with our desires and taking them too seriously, we not only increase our susceptibility to disappointment, we actually create a climate inhospitable to the free and easy fulfillment of those desires.

You don’t have to get your object of desire to be happy. You can be just as happy even if you don’t get what you want. You can manufacture your own happiness by accepting what you have and believing that what you have is the best.

While the primary function of formal Buddhist meditation is to create the possibility of the experience of "being," my work as a therapist has shown me that the demands of intimate life can be just as useful as meditation in moving people toward this capacity. Just as in formal meditation, intimate relationships teach us that the more we relate to each other as objects, the greater our disappointment. The trick, as in meditation, is to use this disappointment to change the way we relate.

I'm trying to find something wrong with you so that I don't want you so much.

Hell is having arms but no one to embrace.

All dissatisfaction arises from expectation.

You do not need to make Valentines more special than any other day...But recognising that someone wishes you would brings its own benefits ...

I want a house that’s mobile but stationary, situated in a safe place without borders, where the people are peace-loving.

As long as I'm holding you, all of my dreams have already come true.