“Yet he who reigns within himself, and rules Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king.”— John Milton, amazon.com
“And I want to be happy. Like, seventy to eighty percent of the time. I want to be actively, thoughtfully happy.”— Rainbow Rowell, amazon.com
“I hope that I’m always struggling, really. You develop when you’re struggling. When you’re struggling, you get stronger.”— Andrew Garfield, mtv.com
“I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.com
“My deepest desire is to translate every thought, every emotion, and every dream into a language that was meant for only YOU and I.”— Mariah Gordon-Dyke, larmoyante.tumblr.com
“What prompts us to action is desire; and desire has three forms—appetite, passion, wish.”— Aristotle, amazon.com
“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”— E. B. White, nytimes.com
“How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.”— Mary Shelley, amazon.com
“Sometimes I wish I wasn’t as conscious as I am. It would be so much easier.”— River Phoenix, en.wikiquote.org
“It is all the same, drawing, painting, modelling, the irresistible desire to copy any beautiful object which strikes the eye.”— Beatrix Potter, amazon.com
“I want something else. I’m not even sure what to call it anymore except I know it feels roomy and it’s drenched in sunlight and it’s weightless and I know it’s not cheap. Probably not even real.”— Mark Z. Danielweski, amazon.com
“I want a new past, new memories, a new first handshake with love. I want to start over in every possible way.”— Isaac Marion, amazon.com
“I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever.”— Beatrix Potter, amazon.com
“No, she really just wanted his company. She wanted to hear him say that he liked her for who she was. That she was someone special in his world and in his life. She wanted him to give her some gesture of love, not just of friendship and companionship.”— Stieg Larsson, amazon.com