#desi

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

This is desire, daughter, the endless piercing that informs the universe throughout eternity, ↗

— John Speed

#eternity #universe #india

Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery. A mystery is a phenomenon that people don't know how to think about - yet. There have been other great mysteries: the mystery of the origin of the universe, the mystery of life and reproduction, the mystery of the design to be found in nature, the mysteries of time, space, and gravity. These were not just areas of scientific ignorance, but of utter bafflement and wonder. We do not yet have all the answers to any of the questions of cosmology and particle physics, molecular genetics and evolutionary theory, but we do know how to think about them .... With consciousness, however, we are still in a terrible muddle. Consciousness stands alone today as a topic that often leaves even the most sophisticated thinkers tongue-tied and confused. And, as with all of the earlier mysteries, there are many who insist -- and hope -- that there will never be a demystification of consciousness. ↗

— Daniel C. Dennett

#science #design

To wish a healthy man to die is the wish from a mind of sickness. To wish an ailing man to die is the wish of the ambitious. ↗

— Roman Payne

#desire #health #ill #illness #sickness

It does wonders for my own psyche to turn envy into inspiration. No matter how successful we become, we're never above that. ↗

— Hillman Curtis

#design #envy #inspiration #psyche #self

She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone-desire so acute that it became despair. ↗

— Holly Black

#kaye #despair

There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire ↗

— Jacqueline Carey

#lust #lust

If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. It was like a vague dream, a burning, unfulfilled desire. The kind of dream people have only when they're seventeen. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#leaving #dreams

I am the bathtub of desire, and I see you are filthy for me. You’d better get naked and let me surround you.
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— Jarod Kintz

#filthy #lust #naked #lust

I desire the things which will destroy me in the end. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#journalism