"Want is small and will make you small. Want is needy and will make you needy."

Desire, Truth, Regret, Life, Wisdom

28

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Want is small and will make you small. Want is needy and will make you needy."

Exlpore more Desire quotes

"Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Desire, Politeness

"I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

Desire, Limitation, Experience, Learning

"Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Desire, Food, Beauty, Contrast

"The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Desire,

"It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite."

Soren Kierkegaard, Danish Philosopher

Desire, Imperfection, Man

"Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire."

Patti Smith, American Musician

Desire, Sadness

"Somewhere between 'not enough' and 'not at all.' I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it - to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once. But they never gave that to me. Never, not once."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Desire, Love, Hunger, Emptiness

"Be more than a person she would settle for... be a person she would yearn for."

Steve Maraboli, American Author

Desire, Person, Yearn, Relationship, Value

"Without 'Gnan' (True Knowledge of the Self), desire(s) will not go away."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

Desire, Spiritual, Truth, Wisdom, Life

"Look into your heart- and go after what you really want."

Sophie Kinsella, British Author

Desire, Observation, Truth, Wisdom

Explore more quotes by Bryant McGill

"When someone is vicious toward you they are giving you a glimpse of the pain they carry in themselves."

Empathy

"Intelligence is often worshiped, even when that intelligence allows unfathomable injustice and suffering to occur under its smart watch."

Intelligence

"How we choose to perceive affects how we partake of reality, narrowly or completely."

Perception

"The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back."

Happiness

"Want is always hungry and searching whereas contentment is steady, calm and receiving."

Contentment

"Society has a herd psychology, so until we have more good shepherds we are lost."

Society

"When we try to control, we become controlled; when we release, we become free."

Freedom

28

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more Desire quotes

"Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself."

"Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun."

"The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired."

"It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite."

"Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire."

"Somewhere between 'not enough' and 'not at all.' I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it - to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once. But they never gave that to me. Never, not once."

"Be more than a person she would settle for... be a person she would yearn for."

"Without 'Gnan' (True Knowledge of the Self), desire(s) will not go away."

"Look into your heart- and go after what you really want."

Explore more quotes by Bryant McGill

"When someone is vicious toward you they are giving you a glimpse of the pain they carry in themselves."

"Intelligence is often worshiped, even when that intelligence allows unfathomable injustice and suffering to occur under its smart watch."

"How we choose to perceive affects how we partake of reality, narrowly or completely."

"The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back."

"Want is always hungry and searching whereas contentment is steady, calm and receiving."

"Let each of us lead a revolution of support in the lives of others."

"When we come face-to-face with our fears we are really confronting ourselves."

"Run, leap and celebrate for you are alive today!"

"Society has a herd psychology, so until we have more good shepherds we are lost."

"When we try to control, we become controlled; when we release, we become free."