In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
'Life in space is impossible,' we're warned, and amidst the hypnotic beauty of these heavens, we become painfully aware of what a hostile environment space is, how unforgiving, how unsympathetic to human desires.
A lot of people feel trapped by circumstance, by the expectations of others or the perception that they need a lot of money. They would like to have a different direction in their lives, but they're held back by fear or desires that are incompatible with that freedom.
The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.
By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart, he put other different desires.
Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.
Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.
I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His great magnificence and mercy. May He be blessed for ever! For I see clearly that He has not omitted to reward me, even in this life, for every one of my good desires.
Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.
I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
The British system denied any role for human creativity, and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires, pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain, objective laws would naturally guide society to achieve the best allocation of wealth.
We are driven by the same fears and the same loves and the same ambitions and the same desires, whatever language we speak.
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.
Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts.
There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode.
Nature has endowed us with needs; among them are some that she leaves to our own activity to satisfy. Abundant as are the gifts she has bestowed upon us, still more abundant are our desires. We seem born to be dissatisfied.
Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season. All great men of letters have therefore been enthusiastic walkers.
To me, Shakespeare uses the supernatural elements to reveal his character's inner desires and fears.
You know that we have a great variety of ways to gratify our own desires.
With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.
The individual who desires to have his sins forgiven, must seek for it through the blood of Jesus. The individual who desires to get power over sin, must likewise seek it through the blood of Jesus.
The Beijing Olympics and the Shanghai World Expo show just how much effort China is willing to spend to enter the global stage. But while China desires to understand the world, it fails to accept its universal values.
Good literature always ends up showing those who read it... the inevitable limitation of all power to fulfill human aspirations and desires.
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
Though we may have desires or bold goals, for whatever reason, most of us don't think we can achieve something beyond what we're qualified to achieve. Why, I ask, do we let reality interfere with our dreams?
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
Your soul's desires compel you to grow, evolve and move closer to your highest potential.
The people's desires have changed, but we're still stuck in our old issue set.
Becoming a producer enables you to empower yourself, to make the film that you want to make. I have desires to make movies - I have movies I'm developing, and things that I'm interested in.
So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position.