shared desires Quotes

But when it comes to human beings, the only type of cause that matters is final cause, the purpose. What a person had in mind. Once you understand what people really want, you can't hate them anymore. You can fear them, but you can't hate them, because you can always find the same desires in your own heart.

Let me show you how to drive me crazy,Let me show you how to make me feel so good,Let me show you how to take me to the edge of the stars and back again.You've gotta show me how to drive you crazy,You've gotta show me all the things you wanna happen to you,We've gotta tell each other everything, we always wanted someone to do.

I am persuaded that the people of the world have no grievances, one against the other. The hopes and desires of a man who tills the soil are about the same whether he lives on the banks of the Colorado or on the banks of the Danube.

We forget that despite the superficial differences between us, people are equal in their basic wish for peace and happiness.

Everybody knows that the boat is leaking. Everybody knows the captain lied. Everybody got this broken feeling, like their father or their dog just died. Everybody talking to their pockets. Everybody wants a box of chocolates and a long-stem rose. Everybody knows.

We all have the same dreams.

Vast sections of the world's population are inspired by the same desires and live for common interests that bind them together far more than they separate them.

I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.

If we conceive that anyone loves, desires, or hates anything which we ourselves love, desire, or hate, we shall thereupon regard the thing in question with more steadfast love, etc. On the contrary, if we think that anyone shrinks from something that we love, we shall undergo vacillation of the soul.

To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.

He seems like a man who knows what he wants, and the problem is he wants what I want.

We must recognize that all beings want the same thing we want. This is the way to achieve a true understanding, unfettered by artificial consideration.

Maybe my sister and I shared more than we thought. We were both waiting and wishing for something we couldn't completely control: I wanted to be alone, and she the total opposite. It was weird, really, to have something so contrary in common. But at least it was something.

Men and women really do want the same things. We just need each other to bring it out. That's really the truth of the matter.

What unites us as human beings is an urge for happiness which at heart is a yearning for union.

There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes.