Quotes about wanting

Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for.

Surviving is about need. Living is about want.

From that first moment of doubt, there was no peace for her; from the time she first imagined leaving her forest, she could not stand in one place without wanting to be somewhere else. She trotted up and down beside her pool, restless and unhappy. Unicorns are not meant to make choices. She said no, and yes, and no again, day and night, and for the first time she began to feel the minutes crawling over her like worms.

Some of you may feel that if you don't do something soon to change your life, you will be left by the roadside, alone, homeless and in despair. But is the despair not there as you reach and grapple to create or manifest your desires through your own effort and will? What happens if or when those things appear in your life? Joy? Peace? Or a temporary sense of relief? What if it is relief from the wanting you have been craving for so long, not the outcome, but the relief from the constant wanting.

She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important.

Real transformation requires real honesty. If you want to move forward — get real with yourself.

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is wanting.

How do I tell her that all I want to do is roll around on my bed?

I had my chance.' He said it, retiring from a lifetime of wanting. 'I had my chance, and sometimes in life, there are no second chances. You look at what you have, not what you miss, and you move forward.

Paroxysms of pain and twinges of desire leach from universal sources. All human suffering buttons itself to the pang of wanting.

All love stories are frustration stories… To fall in love is to be reminded of a frustration that you didn’t know you had (of one’s formative frustrations, and of one’s attempted self-cures for them); you wanted someone, you felt deprived of something, and then it seems to be there. And what is renewed in that experience is an intensity of frustration, and an intensity of satisfaction.

Youngsters want to change world. Elders want to enjoy their works.The entrepreneur sells anything needed by both to win their desires.

Who ask don't getwho don't ask don't wantwho don't want don't getwho don't getdon't care

I'm extra-good at wanting things. I want things until I feel sort of sick about them. I want enough for two normal people, at least.

How can you possibly do everything you want to do in life if you start doing a bunch of things twice?

It is in the center of a stable self-love that you will find the confidence and safety you want.

It is the touch of a lover's arms that I so desperately crave, not the memories of a love no longer mine.

It wasn't the sort of kiss I'd had with him before, hungry, wanting, desperate. It wasn't the sort of kiss I'd had with anyone before. This kiss was so soft that it was like a memory of a kiss, so careful on my lips that it was like someone running his fingers along them.

If you hold on to what you want so tightly, it almost becomes an idol.

Always wanting another man than your own.

Nothing grows in the shadow of want without the sunlight of acknowledging your fullness.

What we want for others doesn't work unless they want it for themselves.

When I was seven, I had been very vocal about wanting to be an actor. And my mom decided that we would try it out for a couple weeks and come to L.A. from Sacramento.

Music is all about wanting to be better at it.

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.

Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us.

I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.

We get so beat down by what we need, sometimes we forget how to want.

If you want more from life — start by counting your blessings instead of counting your losses, deficits and wants.

It wasn’t as if she’d thought it through or anything, how what a person wanted wasn’t always what they needed, and what a person needed might be the last thing they could ever want.

Everyone says that hope is the feeling that something desirable is likely to happen which gives people the expectation that something good would occur. But the thing is, people hope for something. They only HOPE for that certain thing. For what is that hope that people say if they wouldn't take action to make that hope happened. It's just like wanting something or someone but not doing anything to have them.

Frogs, ducks, rhinos, octopuses – whatever you desire. The world will be built new for you every morning. If you stay here, you can have whatever you want.’ Coraline sighed. ‘You really don’t understand, do you?’ she said. ‘I don’t want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted? Just like that, and it didn’t mean anything. What then?

You think it can't get worse than wanting someone and not having them, but it can. You can want someone, have them, and want them more. Still. Always. You can never get enough.

why couldn't someone , somewhere , want her for her ?

Contentment comes from wanting what we need, not needing what we want.

I realized that you can get so used to certain luxuries that you start to think they’re necessities, but when you have to forgo them, you come to see that you don’t need them after all. There was a big difference between needing things and wanting things—though a lot of people had trouble telling the two apart—and at the ranch, I could see, we’d have pretty much everything we’d need but precious little else.

I might not yet be falling in love, but I might be flirting with the promise of love, the idea of love, the making of a place in my heart for love, though it may have been more a wish than a promise.

It's always times like these when I think of you and I wonder if you ever think of me.

The tourists always seem to want something. On Thisby, it's less about wanting, and more about being." I wonder after I say it if he'll think I sound like have no drive or ambition.

Wanting and wishing are very different

The subjects range from the pastoral (sniffing of the butt of a melon to tell if it's ripe. and almost romantically lush descriptions of lightening storms sweeping across fields on summer nights) to elaborations on the value of man's having a life of his own, apart from whatever life he has with his family, a private life that no one knows anything about, "a place he can be himself without concern of disappointment or rejection".

Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. I feel it so much that I am water, a river of want,pooled in the shape of a girl.

Sometimes, we want what we want. Even if we know it's going to kill us.

Once someone's hurt you, it's harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn't stop you from wanting them. Sometimes I actually think it makes the wanting worse.

Humans are forever discontent—always thinking there are better alternatives to their present circumstances.

Be careful what you wish for. It may turn out that making the wish was the only good part.

No misery compares to staring at a clear night's sky with arms stretched toward a coveted star, wishing on what is forever out of reach.

But for half a minute she wished it was a different sort of day, even though she knew that nothing good could come from wanting at the world.

Healthy surrender means allowing yourself to "be" rather than being in a constant state of want.

According lecture, entire effort United States to incite desire, inflict want, inspire demand.

Wanting to be an actor and wanting to be famous are different.

In the end, everything is found to be wanting.

Good film, television, or music keeps you awake, anxious for the next movement or act, and wanting more when it is finished.

When you are constantly waiting and wanting your declaration is that you are NOT.

But all these were things he could not want, because they were things he could not have, and wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness.

You have to be smart to get what you want.

What I want is irrelevant. This is your life, Faith.

I would far prefer to be in someone's arms than jut in their head.

You don’t need them. It’s that simple. But for some reason it’s complex. It’s difficult. It’s dangerous. We can’t seem to fathom it.

I felt that thread that had come between us, tugging, tugging at my heart—so hard, it hurt me.

Everybody will get their wants, when they heartily want.

The universe doesn’t give you what you ask for with your thoughts; it gives you what you demand with your actions. In essence, you don't get what you WANT, you get what you ARE.

The problem for a lot of people is that they don't really know what they want. They have vague desire: to 'do something creative' or to earn more money or 'to be free', but they can't really pin down what it is precisely that they want. So they drift from one thing to another, enjoying some moments and hating others, but never really finding fulfillment or success. (..)This is why it's hard to lead a successful life (whatever that means to you) when you don't know what you want.

To love is to think.And I almost forget to feel only from thinking about her.I don’t know what I want at all, even from her, and I don’t think about anything but her.I have a great animated distraction.When I want to meet her,I almost feel like not meeting her,So I don’t have to leave her afterwards.And I prefer thinking about her, because it’s like I’m afraid of her.I don’t know what I want at all, and I don’t want to know what I want. All I want to do is think about her.I’m asking nothing of n

It's not that I want you to go, it's just that I don't want you to stay." - China Sorrows -

Part of being of a true existentialist is wanting to be what we make ourselves be by the way we choose to act, as opposed to making excuses for the way we act and regretting it.

Everything is easier said than done. Wanting something is easy. Saying something is easy. The challenge and the reward are in the doing.

Suddenly I realized that I wanted everything to be as it was when I was younger. When you're young enough, you don't know that you live in a cheap lousy apartment. A cracked chair is nothing other than a chair. A dandelion growing out of a crack in the sidewalk outside your front door is a garden. You could believe that a song your parent was singing in the evening was the most tragic opera in the world. It never occurs to you when you are very young to need something other than what your parent

There are greater things than want and lust, Nerissa," he whispered. "I can't afford those things.

who did I think we were.who did I thinkI could make you.this is the oldest mistake,to confuse wantingwith magic. silence is the undoingof every spell, and we are expertsin the unsaid. even now, I forgetto put us in past tense. as ifthe air in this city were the same.as if love is anything like its speaking.

Everyone wanted what she couldn't have.

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

Rena noticed me watching it pass. 'You think they don't got problem?' Rena said. 'Everybody got problem. You got me, they got insurance, house payment, Preparation H.' She smiled, baring the part between her two upper teeth. 'We are the free birds. They want to be us.

We can imprison ourselves with our wants, wishes, and false dreams.

Did you think I'd only want you once? Oh, my, you are more naïve than I thought. Why would I go through so much trouble for a mere tryst? Does a man ride a stallion but one time before condemning it to the abattoir?

It’s a funny thing, one day you’re living and the next day you’re not sometimes, whether you have plans or not. Wishes and wants get trumped by the reaper every time. I don’t even know if I would want a warning if it was my time. I think I’d rather be surprised.

My past lives alone. That's why my loneliness wants to live in the past

Did they love me? The question is beside the point, somehow. Certainly they each spoiled me, mainly by giving me the false impression that I was entitled to attention nearly all the the time. They played. THEY were like children, if you consider that one of the things about being a child is that you are a parasite of sorts and have to brazen out self-righteously. I want. They were good at wanting and I shared much more common ground with them than with my mother when I was three or four years ol

I wanted to shout down to him, to warn him that he was giving flowers to a monster, but I did not.

He opened his eyes to reveal the storm within him. “My every instinct is telling me to have my way with you.” He was dead serious and my cheeks heated. Fire shone in his eyes and I broke eye contact, burying my face into his cotton-covered chest. “But not nearly as difficult as going all this time without you,” he said.

You have to know what you want to ever be able to have it.

You have to be selfish with who you are to stop wanting in your relationship with yourself.

If all you do is think about what you need, you’re no better than an animal in the woods, and no smarter either. To be human, you’ve got to want. It makes you smarter and stronger.

One thing we entirely forget when making decisions is the fact that the results concern and throw back to the decision maker not the one it seeks to please.

There are words in the soul of a newborn baby, wanting and waiting to be written.