“Could it be that to truly love a thing is not to desire it, but to desire happiness for it?”

“the world has become man's right and everything in it has become a right: the desire for love the right to love, the desire for rest the right to rest, the desire for friendship the right to friendship, the desire to exceed the speed limit the right to exceed the speed limit, the desire for happiness the right to happiness, the desire to publish a book the right to publish a book, the desire to shout in the street in the middle of the night the right to shout in the street.”

“If you knew the power within yourself to be truly happy, to be truly whole, then you would never ask another to become the image you desire for yourself, in order to be happy and whole.”

“One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.”

“Could it be that desire for a good thing has become a bad thing because that desire has become a ruling thing?”

“Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it”