#desire

I don't know what 15-year-old doesn't have a desire to separate themselves from their parents and prove their independence. ↗

— Michelle Williams

#i #independence #know #parents #prove

Hamas' battle is against the Zionist occupation in the Palestinian land. Hamas has no desire to change its battlefield. ↗

— Ahmed Yassin

#battle #battlefield #change #desire #hamas

I don't feel like my speed or my power or my desire to play this game has diminished at all. ↗

— Ricky Williams

#diminished #feel #game #i #like

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#comfort #desire #destroyed #drink #i

Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries. ↗

— A. B. Yehoshua

#cross #desire #expression #traveling

Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#greatness #help #liberates #like #nothing

If you were offered the chance to live your own life again, would you seize the opportunity? The only real philosophical answer is automatically self-contradictory: 'Only if I did not know that I was doing so.' To go through the entire experience once more would be banal and Sisyphean—even if it did build muscle—whereas to wish to be young again and to have the benefit of one's learned and acquired existence is not at all to wish for a repeat performance, or a Groundhog Day. And the mind ought to, but cannot, set some limits to wish-thinking. All right, same me but with more money, an even sturdier penis, slightly different parents, a briefer latency period… the thing is absurd. I seriously would like to know what it was to be a woman, but like blind Tiresias would also want the option of re-metamorphosing if I wished. How terrible it is that we have so many more desires than opportunities. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#conundrums #desire #groundhog-day #life #money

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you. ↗

— Thomas Wolfe

#escape #escaping #feeling #life #prevent

Some people have a desire to be with the same sex. But that's them. ↗

— Stevie Wonder

#people #same #sex #some #some people

What is the real origin of my own anger? Is it the ego defending its territory, or is it something that has its source in the desire for the well-being of all? (73) ↗

— Jean-Yves Leloup

#compassion #desire #ego #righteous-anger #well-being