Posts Tagged ‘Desires’
I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.
Zora Neale Hurston
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick — not wounded — dead.
Woody Allen
It’s not that I’m afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
Wystan Hugh Auden
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don’t buy love for nothing. Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.
William Seward Burroughs
Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Witold Gombrowicz
Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Witold Gombrowicz
The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.
William Hazlitt
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. Try the ‘as if’ technique.
William James
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
William James