More quotations tagged with “desire”
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
—Harry S. Truman
Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.
—Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your abundance.
—Kahlil Gibran
You can never get enough of what you don't really want.
—Eric Hoffer
For a transitory enchanted moment, man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald