#desire

He soon felt that the realization of his desire had given him only a grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected. It showed him the eternal error people make in imagining that happiness is the realization of desires. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#happiness #imagination

The exotic and the erotic ideals go hand in hand, and this fact also contributes another proof of a more or less obvious truth - that is, that a love of the exotic is usually an imaginative projection of a sexual desire. ↗

— Mario Praz

#desire #erotic #exotic #exoticism #imagination

Nothing makes a person desire improvement like failure ↗

— Chris Stocking

#failure #inspiration #success #writing #inspirational

Desire makes life happen. Makes it matter. Makes everything worth it. Desire is life. Hunger to see the next sunrise or sunset, to touch the one you love, to try again. “Hell would be waking up and wanting nothing,” he agrees. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#hope #life #life

The truly terrible thing about this life, was not knowing what you want, but only able to recognize what you do not want. You have to spend so much time and energy trying to find it out, time that other people spent in pursuing of their desires. ↗

— Whitney Otto

#goal #life #life

Would that thy love, beloved, had less trust in me, that it might be more anxious! ↗

— Héloïse d'Argenteuil

#desire #fear #jealousy #longing #love

You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God. ↗

— Saint Stephen

#compassion #desire #exceeds #god #humble

The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#point #same #vision

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be. ↗

— Anna Louise Strong

#cause #comrade #desires #difficult #easy

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#become #captive #desires #discipline #find