Desires

Famous quotes containing the word desires:

    Too many desires harm the mind; to desire much money harms the body.
    Chinese proverb.

    Dreams surround our desires with ugliness and dread.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.
    Joseph De Maistre (1753–1821)