#desire

All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in. [Conversation with Elizabeth Farnsworth, PBS NewsHour, March 9, 1998] ↗

— Toni Morrison

#exclusion #inspiration #paradises #utopias #wishes

ach, gebt mir meinen Tod, damit ich bleibe ↗

— Klaus Kinski

#sehnsucht-desire #tod #death

Everything you want is just outside your comfort zone. ↗

— Robert Allen

#enlightenment

God loves his creatures, and he loves each one the more, the more it shares his own goodness, which is the first and primary object of his love. Therefore he wants the desires of his rational creatures to be fulfilled because they share most perfectly of all creatures the goodness of god. And his will is an accomplisher of things because he is the cause of things by his will. So it belongs to the divine goodness to fulfill the desires of rational creatures which are put to him in prayer. ↗

— St. Thomas Aquinas

#passion #prayer #love

It may seem strange that one with whom I had held so little communion should have so engrossed my thoughts, but benefits conferred awaken love in some minds, as surely as benefits received in others. ↗

— George MacDonald

#love #romance #love

You’re driving me crazy, Blaire. Insane, baby. Fucking insane, ↗

— Abbi Glines

#love-hurts #love

Dass es nämlich keinen Grund dazu gab, sich für irgendetwas zu schämen, solange du es aus Liebe und Sehnsucht tatest. ↗

— Emilia Polo

#love #sehnsucht-desire #love

To become desireless, to not want anything external to ourselves, means we rest in ourselves, whole, joyous and happy. In this state, our true nature is constant love, unending love, giving love. ↗

— Lawrence Crane

#happiness #love #love

The truth is that the fever of desire in youth is fleeting disease that intimacy promptly cure. ↗

— Frank Harris

#intimacy #youth #love

You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires. ↗

— Claude M. Bristol

#attainment #awaits #continuous #desires #feast