Category Archives: Quotes

Alexandra Katehakis says this is exactly the way you integrate healthy lust and love into your sex life…

“When you are secure in yourself, know what turns you on, and enjoy watching your partner watch you experience sexual pleasure, you have a highly novel relationship grounded in love. The experience of seeing and being seen fuels lust and … Continue reading

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Kahlil Gibran says desire is half of life…

“Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.” – Kahlil Gibran

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Meg Rosoff says still the brain continues to yearn, continues to burn, foolishly, with desire…

“And still the brain continues to yearn, continues to burn, foolishly, with desire. My old man’s brain is mocked by a body that still longs to stretch in the sun and form a beautiful shape in someone else’s gaze, to … Continue reading

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Tom Robbins says desire suggests that there is something we do not have…

“The word desire suggests that there is something we do not have. If we have everything already, then there can be no desire, for there is nothing left to want. I think that what the Buddha may have been trying … Continue reading

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Abraham Harold Maslow says it isn’t normal to know what we want…

“It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.” – Abraham Harold Maslow

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh says the shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things…

“The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea

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Lauren Oliver says desire is an enemy to contentment…

“….love and desire enjoy a symbiotic relationship, meaning that one cannot exist without the other. Desire is an enemy to contentment; desire is illness, a feverish brain. Who can be considered healthy who wants? The very word want suggests a … Continue reading

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