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Desires Quotes

"He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have"
Socrates
"A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want"
Madonna
"Be sure that someday, pretty soon, you'll say goodbye to the one you call lover. Меняться означает меняться / It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion / It will all be over before you know it. Don't take life too seriously"
Shams Tabrizi
"When all your desires are distilled, you will cast just two votes: to love more, and be happy"
Hafez
"The most important question in the 21st century is not what do we want to become, but what do we want to want"
Yuval Noah Harari
"People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others"
Marcel Proust
"Neither family, nor children, nor intercourse with others can be rightly ordered until the passions and desires are brought under subjection."
Plato
"Lots of people are afraid to do that - to say what they want. So they don't get what they want."
Madonna
"The day you stop wanting things is the day you stop living"
Simone de Beauvoir
"Every one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desires and attitudes."
Agatha Christie
"A person is born with desires. If those desires are not satisfied, he will seek to satisfy them."
Xunzi
"Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old "
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you."
Democritus
"True wealth consists in not having many possessions, but in having few wants."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"We must allow fantasies to teach us important truths about our desires."
Alain de Botton
"It is far easier to achieve your material desires than to renounce them"
Naval Ravikant
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