Quotes about Desire

If you start out by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work toward getting it.

In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love.

Why don't people's hearts tell them to continue to follow their dreams? the boy asked the alchemist. Because that's what makes the heart suffer most, and hearts don't like to suffer.

Why don't people's hearts tell them to continue to follow their dreams? [...] Because that's what makes a heart suffer most, and hearts don't like to suffer.

it is one thing to get used to something, another to be satisfied.

I open the curtains in my office and see people out there, some walking and holding hands without having to worry about the consequences. And I can't show my love

The mere possibility of getting what we want fills the soul of the ordinary person with guilt. We look around at all those who have failed to get what they want and feel that we do not deserve to get what we want either. We forget about all the obstacles we overcame, all the suffering we endured, all the things we had to give up in order to get this far...

You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring.

The universe always favors those who fight for what they want.

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person realise his dream.

But they both agreed that it's always nice to know that your wife is desired by another man, although they wouldn't go any further than that.

It's a force that appears to be negative, but actually shows you how to realize your Personal Legend. It prepares your spirit and your will, because there is one great truth on this planet: 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.