“And she wanted for a moment to hold and devour him, wanted his mouth, his ears, his coat collar, wanted to surround him and engulf him.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.”— Thomas Paine, amazon.com
“Whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it’s because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It’s your mission on earth.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“What is this world? what asketh men to have? Now with his love, now in his colde grave Allone, withouten any compaignye.”— Geoffrey Chaucer, amazon.com
“Every living soul has different talents, different desires, different faculties. Be yourself, for even if you deceive the entire world, you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.”— Chelston W.D. Brathwaite, books.google.com.ph
“I need solitude. I need space. I need air. I need the empty fields round me; and my legs pounding along roads; and sleep; and animal existence.”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.com
“If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll end up miserable.”— Brandon Sanderson, amazon.com
“There are disappointments which wring us, and there are those which inflict a wound whose mark we bear to our graves. Such are so keen that no future gratification of the same desire can ever obliterate them: they become registered as a permanent loss of happiness.”— Thomas Hardy, amazon.com
“I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.”— John Stuart Mill, goodreads.com
“I’m a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.”— William Shakespeare, amazon.com
“A writer who turns a phrase beautifully can turn me on, as can someone who makes me laugh.”— Roxane Gay, instyle.com
“I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, such as happiness.”— Brandon Boyd, youtube.com