#desire

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#desire #female #friendship #happiness #her

Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#desire #embryo #every #god #only

Human beings place their desires ahead of the collective good. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#beings #collective #desires #good #human

The longer I lived, the longer it would be until I saw him alive again, until I could taste his new lips and run my fingers through his new hair. We could be young and beautiful again . . . ↗

— Chelsie Shakespeare

#desire #dreams #love #meant-to-be #past-lives

A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#man #other #rarely #than #woman

Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#energy #need #out #springs #will

The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#business #desire #dominating #hit #home

Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#fulfillment #increases #postponed

I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#between #canada #country #desire #extraordinary

It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents. ↗

— Laura Dern

#been #desire #mine #parents #work