#desire

There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still. ↗

— Nagarjuna

#just #more #pleasurable #pleasure #pleasures

If you desire ease, forsake learning. ↗

— Nagarjuna

#ease #forsake #learning #you

I read about this hotel that was great, down in the south of the island, not in a touristy area. I had no particular desire ever to go to Jamaica, but I thought, what the hell? Sounds nice. Let's go! ↗

— Jeremy Northam

#area #desire #down #ever #go

I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard. ↗

— Ed O'Brien

#desire #hard #helped #i #i think

What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery. ↗

— Ellen Ochoa

#background #common #corps #desire #discovery

I have no desire to ever talk to Sean Penn. ↗

— Trey Parker

#ever #i #penn #sean #sean penn

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#desire #even #fame #having #read

Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health? ↗

— Petrarch

#any #blessing #dangerous #desire #found

So whatever it is you want, need or desire or just like to have, you better try to get it now, 'cause this is the only time there is. ↗

— Della Reese

#cause #desire #get #just #like

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire. ↗

— Quintilian

#desire #excite #forbidden #lawful #loved