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“Listen. Look. Desire is a house. Desire needs closed space. Desire runs out of doors or windows, or slats or pinpricks, it can’t fit under the sky, too large. Close the doors. Close the windows. As soon as you laugh from nerves or make a joke or say something just to say something or get all involved with the bushes, then you blow open a window in your house of desire and it can’t heat up as well. Cold draft comes in.”

Needs Wells Looks Running Desire House Space Laughing Doors Sky Cold Involved Fit Jokes Window Blow Heat Nerves

Author:Aimee Bender

“March is outside the door Flaming some old desire As man turns uneasily from his fire.”

Men Desire Turns Fire Doors March

Author:David McCord

“When ice appears out of doors, and boys seize it up while it is solid, at first they experience new pleasures. But in the end their pride will not agree to let it go, but their acquisition is not good for them if it stays in their hands. In the same way an identical desire drives lovers to act and not to act.”

Ifs Way Firsts Ends Hands Desire Pleasure Boys Doors Pride Lovers Agree Ice Let It Go Identical Acquisition

Book:Sophocles: Fragments

Source: Sophocles: Fragments

“There are those who say that temptation can be barricaded beyond the door. The ones who think that stray desires can be driven out of the heart like the moneychangers from the temple. Maybe they can, if you patrol your weak points day and night, don't look, don't smell, don't dream.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Heart Dream Desire Night Doors Weak Smell Driven Temptation Temples Day And Night Weak Points

Book:Written On The Body

Source: Written On The Body

“Desire is God tapping at the door of your mind, trying to give you greater good.”

Giving Trying Mind Desire Greater Doors Tapping Greater Good

Author:H. Emilie Cady

“There is a saying in Tibetan that "at the door of the miserable rich man sleeps the contented beggar". The point of this saying is not that poverty is a virtue, but that happiness does not come with wealth, but from setting limits to one's desires, and living within those limits with satisfaction.”

Men Doe Desire Wealth Sleep Poverty Virtue Rich Doors Limits Satisfaction Happy Setting Settings Miserable Being Happy Beggar Rich Man Tibetan Miserable People

Author:Dalai Lama

“Even at this stage, my preparations were like strapping on a parachute in an airplane that was about to crash; the whole time I was preparing to hurl myself out the door, I clung to the hope that something would happen at the last minute to forestall that terrible necessity I felt-not hostility, as psychiatric texts would say, or vengeful rage, or a desire for attention. This was done in secret, out of a need to alleviate pain which was as implacable as thirst.”