#desire

Blake inspires instant, tender Blakelust in everyone he meets. All of his beauties are meant to be touched, and he likes to be touched. ↗

— John Valentine

#lust #male-beauty #sensuality #sex-appeal #beauty

Chava," he said, "it's a cruel irony that you have the most difficulty precisely when those around you are on their best behavior. I suspect you would find it much easier if we all cast politeness aside, and took whatever we pleased." She considered. "It would be easier, at first. But then you might hurt each other to gain your wishes, and grow afraid of each other, and still go on wanting. ↗

— Helene Wecker

#human-nature #nature

Discipline imposed from the outside eventually defeats when it is not matched by desire from within. ↗

— Dawson Trotman

#discipline #religion #religion

When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

#desire #power #achievement

It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement. ↗

— Abraham Harold Maslow

#psychology #self-awareness #understanding #achievement

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

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