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The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life.
Where our desires "come from"; that is a dark, winding road.
It was a sudden inspiration. But inspiration never came without a reason.
Desires move us from one station to another in this life while we search for beauty, love, and happiness.
With life in general, desires rule our thoughts in most aspects.
Often, seemingly spontaneous acts come from a deep, unacknowledged place, and a sudden decision feels inevitable and right.
Unconsciously we seek the principles and opinions which are suited to our temperament, so that at last it seems as if these principles and opinions had formed our character and given it support and stability.
Curious by nature and reckless by choice
If people only knew what lies at the heart of my novels! What a tumult of desires these carefully written pages conceal! I sometimes have a loathing for the furious cravings that give me no peace except when I am working.
Humans need to be a little crazy, spontaneous, unusual, free-flowing, and creative.
Desire is the straw that stirs the drink.
My life is ruled by four W's: my writing, my work, my wife, and my whisky. Not necessarily in that order.
Reason speaks and feeling bites
Where do you get your ideas? people ask. Sometimes they're at the bottoms of cups of tea. Sometimes they're lurking in my shower. Sometimes they're waiting patiently in glass cases in museums.
Over the years I have discovered that ideas come through an intense desire for them; continually desiring, the mind becomes a watchtower on the lookout for incidents that may excite the imagination.
I crave fit disposition for my wife;
Due reference of place, and exhibition;
With such accommodation, and besort,
As levels with her breeding.
Sometimes if you want something badly enough, you make it happen through sheer force of will.
A disgruntled reflection on my own life as a sort of desperate improvisation in which I was constantly trying to make something coherent from conflicting elements to fit rapidly changing settings.
In a world of tangled want, individual longings are often co-opted by more powerful interests. Satisfied desire in one sphere means loss in another.
Chance and necessity.
Random thoughts that fly away.
Where words has no place to stay.
Let it be right where they are.
Let the work of art preserve its life.
And in fact our unhappiness and our strangeness, our anxieties and compulsions, those least fashionable aspects of our personalities, are quite often what lead us to do rather interesting things. He
Forgetfulness is the catalytic germ of spontaneous creativity
Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud.
Boredom, that traitorous devil that posseses us to do things sometimes useless, and often stupid.
There is no temper more unpropitious to interest than desultory application and unlimited inquiry, by which the desires are held in a perpetual equipoise, and the mind fluctuates between different purposes without determination.
All this, and discontent too! Otherwise, why am I sitting here dreaming of England? Why am I gazing at this campfire like a lost should seeking a hope when all that I love is at my wingtips? Because I am curious. Because I am incorrigibly, now, a wanderer.
My curiosity sister of larks.
Impromptu thoughts are mental wild-flowers.
The right circumstances sometimes happen of their own accord, slyly, without fanfare, without warning. Layman's alchemy ... The magic of everyday things.
I have a single wish, and my whole being and faculties are yearning to attain it. They have yearned towards it so long, and so unwaveringly, that I'm convinced it will be reached - and soon - because it has devoured my existence: I am swallowed up in the anticipation of its fulfillment.
At various points in our lives, or on a quest, and for reasons that often remain obscure, we are driven to make decisions which prove with hindsight to be loaded with meaning. (225)
Interesting things happen when the creative impulse is cultivated with curiosity, freedom and intensity.
Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing.
Spontaneity is the fragrance of no-mind.
Life is so whimsical, for some people better than others
Wishes are born in the will of men and women, and it is the true and pure source of power all humans hold.
What hidden, hoarded longings there are in all of us.
All human creativity issues from the urgency of longing.
Three powerful d's of life; Dream. Desire. Dare.
Our desires teach us who we are and who we want to become. Our desires shape our stories.
Appetite, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question.
Ideas sometimes come from nowhere, and sometimes they take lots of thinking.
The frivolous work of polished idleness.
REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.
Curiosity urges you on-driving force.
Life sometimes takes us down a path where our desires are attained, and some passions are left untouched, hidden but not forgotten.
When I try to analyze my own cravings, motives, actions and so forth, I surrender to a sort of retrospective imagination which feeds the analytic faculty with boundless alternatives and which causes each visualized route to fork and re-fork without end in the maddeningly complex prospect of my past.
In an unmoored life like mine, sleep and hunger and work arrange themselves to suit themselves, without consulting me.
Desire, loneliness, wind in the flowering almond
surely these are the great, the inexhaustible subjects
to which my predecessors apprenticed themselves.
I hear them echo in my own heart, disguised as convention.
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
Reason is an outcome of frailty and resentment. When Will fails to cope with the labour of life, or the life of labour, its fragile remnants are set to construct a slighter world of justifications.
When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.
Divination of true nature. Of motivation. Of desirous hearts. I saw the whole world in a flash and I recognized it at once: We want what we want.
Reason flies When following the senses, on clipped wings.
Conditions of thought, memory, and desire, persuaded by impulse and irrationality, are influenced as well by personal aesthetics and private meanings.
Dream. Desire. Dare.
The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.
Desire and longing are the whips of God.
Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish.
Something that just came out of me. It was a bit of mischief.
Sweet intercourse of looks and smiles; for smiles from reason flow.
Desires are seeds waiting for their season to sprout. From a single seed of desire, whole forests grow.
I'm a big believer in spontaneity.
You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties for want of occasions for frittering away your life on silly trifles.
DESIRE - knowing what you want.
Pursuit of passion, dream of dreamers!
Where's your sense of misadventure?
Things come to you without you necessarily knowing what they mean.
Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity.
Life is full of disparate details arbitrarily joined together by dreams, pain and yearning. I do not long for sense, but I call for emotion and imagination amidst this chaos.
Let us not fear our wild thoughts for they can give rise to wondrous contemplation, creative endeavour, life changing ideas, momentous bliss.
Make thought a whirlwind.
Somewhere within this realm of imagination there is a mood, a feeling of the wish fulfilled which, if appropriated, means success to you.
Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions.
Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.
Choices are the hinges of destiny
Travel, trouble, music, art, a kiss, a frock, a rhyme
I never said they feed my heart, but still they pass my time.
To be longing for this thing to-day and for that thing to-morrow; to change likings for loathings, and to stand wishing and hankering at a venture
how is it possible for any man to be at rest in this fluctuant, wandering humor and opinion?
Wishes, for example, for things like itches.
Fate whirls on the bark, and the rough gale sweeps from the rising tide the lazy calm of thought.
Old habits never die. And when you've once been in the business of granting wishes, the impulse never quite leaves you
Ideas and thoughts collide and sort themselves out in these fruitful collisions.
People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.
Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.
The natural wants are few, and easily gratified: it is only those which are artificial that perplex us by their multiplicity.
Great thoughts, great feelings came to them, Like instincts, unawares.
Curiosity was getting the better of me.
Desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions.
The motivations of men. They never make sense. And they always make sense.
Where necessity ends, desire and curiosity begin; and no sooner are we supplied with everything nature can demand than we sit down to contrive artificial appetites.
Beneath the surface of your ego's insatiable cravings, your authentic desires are waiting patiently for you to acknowledge, claim and express them.
Little things that run the world
Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.
Fountains of inconvenient feeling - and toward the frantic enticements of
Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.
Imagination", one of nature's most powerful forces.
How wild it is, to let it be.
Passionately obsessed by anything we love
an avalanche of magic flattens the way ahead, levels, rules, reasons, dissents, bears us with it over chasms, fears, doubts. Without the power of that love ...